Mining Safety Process
Mining Safety Process
MANAGEMENT
What is Mining Process
Safety?
Process Safety Management is the application of
management controls to ensure that process hazards
are identified, understood and controlled to prevent
process related accidents from occurring.
Process Safety, in the context of mining, is the
application of the same operational discipline seen in
the process industries to high consequence and low
frequency mining risks to ensure that these hazards
are identified, understood and controlled to prevent
process related accidents from occurring. In Mining
Process Safety Management (MPSM) we apply tools
and approaches typically applied in the process
industries to improve the management of these
potentially catastrophic risks.
Major mining incidents happen infrequently and the passing of time
without incidents is not necessarily an indication that all is well and may
contribute to a dangerous and growing sense of complacency. When
people lose an appreciation of how their safety systems were intended to
work, safety systems and controls can deteriorate, lessons can be
forgotten, and hazards and deviations from safe operating procedures
can be accepted