WorkSafe

• The 15th annual Mines Safety Roadshow kicks off in Kalgoorlie today
• Roadshow will visit 11 locations across WA during October and November

Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Johnston has welcomed the annual Mines Safety Roadshow and its focus on promoting on-site risk awareness.

Hosted by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, the month-long series of roadshows starts in Kalgoorlie, before travelling across nine other Western Australian cities and towns.

• Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2019 winners announced
• The Awards recognise outstanding innovations and solutions to specific workplace health and safety issues by individuals, groups or organisations

The eight winners of the inaugural Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2019 were announced at Optus Stadium this morning. They include:

Ron Addison was driving a triple road train delivering a load of fuel from the Linfox depot in Port Hedland to BHP’s Yandi mine site. The unsealed access road to the Yandi site had been flooded by rain in the days prior to the incident causing significant damage with potholes and mounds of dirt across the surface.

Dangerous Goods Licensing processes applications for:

Rema Tip Top Material Processing (Rema) and Chichester Metals Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Fortescue Metals Group Limited (FMG) have been fined $112,000 and $64,000 respectively in Perth Magistrates Court following an incident that broke a worker’s jaw at the Cloudbreak iron ore mine in the Pilbara in September 2014.

While both companies were charged in relation to the same incident, Chichester were not charged for causing the injuries suffered as a result of the incident.

The Dangerous Goods Rail Transport Safety Working Group will provide an overview of dangerous goods rail transport activity in WA, act as an intermediary between operators and industry regulators and provide input to assessing, accepting and reporting rail transport risk.

This year will see the inaugural Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards hosted by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS).

The awards combine the former Work Safety Awards and the Safety and Health Resources Sector Awards to create one awards ceremony celebrating safety across Western Australian workplaces.

Nominations for the awards will be opening soon and the awards ceremony will be held in October.

Karara Mining Ltd was fined $40,000 in Perth Magistrates Court yesterday (13/2) following an incident where a gantry crane collided with an elevated work platform (EWP) being used by two electrical workers.

The incident happened on 3 August 2015 at the Karara Iron Ore Project, located about 200km east of Geraldton and the workers were approximately 12 metres off the ground in the basket of the EWP.

Silver Lake Resources Ltd has been fined $58,000 in Perth Magistrates Court following an incident that seriously injured a worker at its Murchison Gold Operation 25km southeast of Cue in 2014.

Boilermaker Jayden Robinson, was working at Silver Lake's Tuckabianna Processing Plant on 17 April 2014 when the incident occurred.

Golden Grove Operations Pty Ltd has been fined $35,500 after an integrated tool carrier and blast truck fell into a 13-metre deep hole at the company’s Golden Grove precious metals mine southeast of Yalgoo in October 2018.

While no one was injured in the incident, three workers from a blast crew had been working in close proximity to the bomb truck minutes earlier.

A number of charged blast holes were also engulfed in the sinkhole.