Mining engineering manager safety seminar – seeking presenters
The Mining Engineering Manager Safety Seminar is returning in 2021. The NSW Resources Regulator is proud to be hosting this second annual event and is seeking experienced and enthusiastic presenters. The seminar will be held on 13 and 14 October 2021 at the Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley. Delegates will only be able to attend in person, there will be no online broadcast of this event.
If you are interested in being a presenter please contact the Seminar Team on rr.workshops@planning.nsw.gov.au no later than 4 June 2021.
2021 Seminars
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar - 11 - 12 August 2021 at Hunter Valley Crowne Plaza, Lovedale, NSW
Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar - 13 - 14 October 2021 at Hunter Valley Crowne Plaza, Lovedale, NSW
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar - 10 - 11 November 2021 at Hunter Valley Crowne Plaza, Lovedale, NSW
Past safety seminar presentations
- Wilpinjong autonomous dozers - Peter Grosvenor and Nicholas Galloway-Smith
- Wilpinjong causal investigation - Owen Barry
- Dozer safety - Bill McGlynn
- Implementation of autonomous haulage at Maules Creek Mine - Chris Bedggood
- Regulatory approach to autonomous mining (Electrical) - Owen Barry
- Regulatory approach to autonomous mining (Mechanical) - Ben Withers
- Dams safety legislation - Chris Salkovic
- The culture of hydraulic safety - Kyle Probert
- Critical controls - Mark Smith
- Maintaining dust controls - Mark Shepherd
- Future direction of electrifying fleet at depth at the CSA Mine - Chris Hamilton
- Managing risks from underlying workings - Jon Degotardi
- Performance and improvement - Rob Cunningham
- Human organisational factors and automation - how human factors can derail automation - Kylie Newton
- Automation and human factors - Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
- The standardised subsidence information management system - Gang Li
- Anatomy of mine failures - the human factor and the lessons - Tim Sullivan
- Introduction of real time environmental monitoring at Dargues Gold Mine - Andrew Rouse
- Emergency Management - Matt U'Brien
- Electrical Engineering 2019 - Owen Barry
- Causes of mine disasters and lessons learnt - Alaster Wylie
- Irony of automation - Dr Sean Brady
- Lightning safety at mines - Bill Carman
- Minor shock, Major consequences - Assoc. Professor Chris Andrews
- Automation and human factors - Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
- Implementation of autonomous haulage at Maules Creek Mine - Chris Bedggood
- Renewable energy effects on the supply network - Graham Merrick
- Earthing of medium voltage generators in large cable networks - Jason Mayer
- Avoiding unexpected failures - ageing, assessment and management of high voltage oil filled transformers - Phillip Reilly
- Moranbah North Mine 3.3kV Longwall AFC variable speed drive case study - Tim Wylie
- Using data to embrace technology - Kent Flaherty
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- Metropolitan Mine gas inundation causal investigation - David Gordon
- Introduction of wireless blasting - Tony Campbell
- Rapid earth fault current limiters - Mark Mills
- Maintenance of competencies update - Andrew Palmer
- Airborne dust update - Mark Shepherd
- Autonomous mining equipment - Owen Barry
- Central Assessment Unit - Steve Bentham
- Control focused inspection tools - Mark Smith
- Emergency planning - Matt U'Brien
- Fires on mobile plant - Ross Stutchbury
- Industry update - Electrical presentation - Craig Harris
- Metropolitan Colliery gas incident - Dave Gordon
- Mobile plant rollovers and collisions - Bill McGlynn
- Mechanical Engineering 2019 - Ben Withers
- Where Glencore Assets Australia stands - Mark Winchester
- Understanding the hazards at your mine and an enforceable undertaking - Clint Maynard
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- Collision management risk evaluation for mobile equipment - Chris Doran
- ACARP project to industrialise wall-flow DPF technology for diesel engines used in underground coal mining - Nick Coplin
- Critical risk and control frameworks - James Ritchie
- Mechanical failure case studies - Roger Costanzi
- Where do I stand for fire protection on mobile and transportable equipment and PFAS foam ban? - Kristian Bischoff
- Risk visibility - identifying the hazards - Mark Fogarty
- Demolition of a former mine site - Luke Egan and David Wood
- Elastic springback in plates - Theo Kahl
- Managing the risk of falls from mobile plant - Carly Clifford
- What is my level of airborne dust awareness? Where do I stand? - Mark Shepherd
- Application of high-energy micro-mist technology - Jon Roberts
- Understanding the cause - Alan Burns and Gerard Chitty
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- Where do I stand? Earthmoving machinery access systems - Osama Ali
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- The culture of hydraulic safety - Kyle Probert
- Mining Authorisations Unit - Penny Lee
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- Learning from disasters - John Flint
- A breakdown and assessment of a 3.3kV back to back failure in an underground mine - Peter Every-burns
- Respirable Crystalline Silica - It's not just at the coal face - Mark Shepherd
- Upcoming changes to AS/NZS2290.1, AS/NZS3800 and HB239 - Tim Webster
- Back to basics for incident investigation - Justin Ludcke
- Safe and Cybersecure Autonomous Mining - Marcus Punch
- Vehicle interaction control effectiveness - Tim Gray
- Gas detection: back to basics - Ian Webster
- 'The cart before the horse' syndrome - How legacy EEMSPs negatively impact EECPs at mines - Bernard Gittens
- A guide to performing arc flash hazard calculations - Brad Gradwell
- Back to basics - should I worry about a cyber attack on my plant? - Keerthy Mysore
- Use of large storage batteries to manage demand at a mine - Mark Mills
- The process of accident or incident investigation - Bipin Parmar
- Mine site powerlines (with a focus on inspection and maintenance) - Mark Spinks
- Known risks known controls - Shayne Gillett
- Tyresafe Australia - Adam Gosling
- Successfully controlling diesel exhaust exposure through emissions based maintenance - Jennifer Hines
- High pressure water jetting - Will Lee
- Why corrosion matters in underground coal mines - Cindy Liu Scott
- High pressure injection injuries - Dr Sean Nicklin Caution: Contains graphic images
- Fires on mobile plant - Jeremy U'Brien & Ross Stutchbury
- Fatigue and fracture of safety criitical equipment - Simon Walker & Steve Penniment
- Five years of recognising ExDES overhaul workshops - Julian Wilson
- Evolution of risk management - Jim Joy
- Effect of boron contents on steels - Sasanka Sinha
- Well integrity lifecycle - Santos
- Targeted risk assessment program update - Greg Connolly
- Situation Awareness - Jim Knowles
- Safety and isolation for conveyors into the future - Edmond O'Donovan
- Inspection techniques - Peter Torok
- Opening address - Anthony Keon, Chief Compliance Officer NSW Resources Regulator
- Significant incident review 415V arc flash - Michael Wood Northparkes Mine
- Complexity in integration - high voltage and ventilation systems - Warwick Young, Appin Mine
- High voltage truck protection and fire prevention - Paul Edwards, Peabody Energy
- Managing earthing hazards around pole top transformers at mines and quarries - John Derricott Zero Sequence Earthing
- Electrical protection in mines - John Ainsworth, formerly of Ausgrid
- The psychology of risk - Dave Whitefield, People and Risk
- Are your gas detectors actually working? Tim Wylie
- Discussing the human factors of incident investigation - Nicole Gray, Keil Centre
- Uninterruptable power supply installations at mines - Murray Timpson, Slam Engineering Consulting Pty Ltd
- Can we make mining operations immune from lightning induced explosions - Darren Woodhouse, Safearth Consulting
- Getting up close with your personal protection - the low down on RCDs - Bernard Gittins, Resources Regulator
- NSW Practising certificates and the maintenance of competence scheme - Tony Linnane, Resources Regulator
- Would a Wannacry make the industry wanna cry? - Keerthy Mysore and Dr John Lear, AKJE Cyber
- Electrical engineering control plans - building on a valid control framework - Peter Standish, Operational Risk Management
- The evolution of isolation - Mark Spinks, FLSmidth Pty Ltd
- High voltage megger electric shock - Omer Saeed, Newcrest Mining Pty Ltd
- Proper control plan assessment and the impact of high efficiency motors - David Pilt, NHP Electrial Engineering Products Pty Ltd
- Annual report card - Owen Barry, Resources Regulator
- Changing world of maintenance - Shane Diddy, AXYS
- Caterpillar's journey to understanding the invisible threat of fatigue - Rodney Mudford, Caterpillar Safety Services
- NSW Coal mines airborne dust monitoring framework - Mark Shepherd, Coal Services
- New interest in old enemy - rediscovering dust disease in mining - Dr David Meredith
- Risk Homeostasis Have you thought about this? - Tony Cartwright, Innosafe
- Mobile plant - the application of standards and guidelines for access systems to manage fall from height - Peter Berkholz and Tony Smith CMSE and Resources Regulator
- Tech tech boom, safety and the demise of the worker - Sarah-Jane Dunford, Riskology
- Mechanical Engineering control plan - a quarry's perspective - John Grindrod and Dan Taylor, Hanson Quarries
- Mine tailings dams, weird tests and weird machines are used to assess safety in this weird environment - Allan McConnell, Insitu Geotech Services Pty Ltd
- Westside drilling case study 3 years without a recordable injury - Simon Hann, Inguage
- Practising certificates and maintenance of competence, Tony Linnane, Resources Regulator
- Mechanical Engineering update - Jeremy U'Brien, Resources Regulator
- ACARP project to develop a wall-flow DPF system for diesel engines used in underground coal - Nick Coplin, Orbital Corporation Ltd
- Creating high performance mindful safety cultures - Alistair Schuback, Allframes Safety
- Project Arrive Alive - Jamie Coad and Troy Wells, Evolution Mining
- A review of RPAS (UAV) operations on mine sites - John Challinor, Survey and Drafting Resources Pty Ltd
- Falls from heights - incidences and incident reduction - Rick Millar, 3M Fall Protection
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