Safety seminars
2023 Seminars
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS)
Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar (MEMSS)
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar (EESS)
Past safety seminar presentations
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar presentations 2022
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Mining Engineering Managers' Safety Seminar presentations 2022
- NSW mineral deposits - Glen Cathers, Mining, Exploration and Geoscience
- Regulator update - Anthony Margetts, NSW Resources Regulator
- Airborne contaminants update – Karen Tripp, NSW Resources Regulator
- Mechanisation of underground development charging using wireless primers - Ben Taylor, Orica
- HANZ critical risk control – Fred Adams and Kurt Bridges, Holcim
- Boral’s pedestrian safety journey with artificial intelligence – Martin Guenzl, Strata Worldwide
- R U OK? – Scott Tipping, Hanson
- Using multiplayer virtual reality to improve operator awareness – Andrew Clayton, Coal Services
- The Regulator’s incident prevention strategy and compliance and enforcement approach – Garvin Burns, NSW Resources Regulator
- Where industry is headed – Craig Reed, Newcrest
- MY Mindset program – Renata Roberts, The Bloomfield Group
- The ANCOLD tailings dam guidelines and the future of tailings dams’ governance – Brett Stephens, Australian Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD)
- Industry update – James Barben, NSW Minerals Council
- Delivering safer mine haul roads: lessons from site reviews – David McTiernan, ARRB
- Safety learnings from quantitative airblast risk assessments – Claudia Vejrazka, Resolve Mining Solutions
- The reality of investigations – Andrew McColm, NSW Resources Regulator
- Systematic review of work environment impacts that may contribute to fatigue of haul truck operators in open cut coal mines – James Wilcher, JWM Group
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar presentations 2022
- Where industry is headed - Craig Reed, Newcrest
- Mechanical engineering update and interactive session - Dwaine Jones, NSW Resources Regulator
- EMERST mobile plant fires - Tony Egan, Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table
- Person retrieval pod - LW06 end of block escape strategy at Glencore Ulan West Mine - Clinton Maynard, Glencore Ulan West
- Introducing battery electric vehicles to underground mining safely - Martin Kime, 3ME Technology
- The Regulator’s incident prevention strategy and compliance enforcement approach - Garvin Burns, NSW Resources Regulator
- NSW Resources Regulator investigation and outcome: Crush injury caused by the tilting cab of a Volvo wheel loader - Liz Anderson and Ross Stutchbury, NSW Resources Regulator
- Do we train or do we educate? - Mark Fogarty, Safe For Engineering
- Dana axle spindle failure analysis and ongoing management - Shayne Gillett, Centennial Coal Mandalong and Cindy Liu, Bureau Veritas AIRS
- Practical guidance on structural and maintenance welding management - Simon Krismer, Welding Quality Management Systems Pty Ltd
- Towing chain attachment failure at Springvale Mine - Greg Gleeson, Centennial Coal Springvale Colliery
- SIL beyond the numbers - Keerthy Mysore, Shakti Group Pty Ltd
- Analysis of mobile plant fires on Australian mine sites - Jodi Goodall, Grady Heywood and Michael Johnston, HSW Mining
- Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project and our industry recognised safe driving campaign - Todd Dunn, Santos
- Demolition: end of equipment life - Daniel Healy and Brendan Jolliffe, CMA Contracting
Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar presentations 2019
- 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 Safety Seminar presentations 2019
- 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
Site Safety and Health Representatives Seminar 2019
- 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 Safety Seminar presentations 2019
- 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
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar presentations 2018
- 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
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar presentations 2018
- 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
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar presentations 2017
- 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
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar presentations 2017
- 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