Best Practice Documents

• Apprentice Miner/New Hire Policy
• Eye Protection
• Explosives Storage & Handling
• Lockout/Tag Procedure
• Standards for Surface Mine Berms and Surface Pit Illumination

Submitted by Massey Energy

Safety

NMA has also developed a Crisis Communications Template and a Mine Rescue Handbook. The template provides guidance on how operations can better prepare to meet communications challenges and effective communications during a crisis situation. The format allows users to customize the template to meet their needs and policies. The handbook serves as a guide for those developing mine rescue protocols and procedures as well as a review tool for those who have established procedures in place.

Crisis Communications Template
(Word file)

Mine Rescue Handbook

Coal Mine Safety

NMA has produced the Coal Mine Safety Fact Sheet showing trends in production and safety, as well as providing coal mine safety facts.

Coal Mine Safety Fact Sheet

Risk Assessment

Take 5
Prepared by Rio Tinto Minerals

Managing Safety Risks in Mining
Prepared for the National Mining Association by Prof. Jim Joy, University of Queensland, Australia

The Application of Major Hazard Risk Assessment (MHRA) to Eliminate Multiple Fatality Occurrences in the U.S. Minerals Industry (NIOSH)

• Full Report
• Abstract/Executive Summary
• Sec. 3 Risk Assessment and Analysis Techniques and Tools
• Sec. 4 Elements of an Major Hazard Risk Assessment (MHRA)

Additional NIOSH Risk Assesment Documents:

• Focus on Prevention: Conducting a Fire Risk Assessment
• Using Major Hazard Risk Assessment to Appraise and Manage Escapeway Instability Issues: A Case Study
• Major Hazard Risk Assessment Applied to Pillar Recovery Operations
• Ergonomic Assessment of Musculoskeletal Risk Factors at Four Mine Sites: Underground Coal, Surface Copper, Surface Phosphate, and Underground Limestone

The following is a paper on risk management entitled Reducing risks,protecting people: HSE’s decision-making process developed by the Health and Safety Executive of Great Britain.

• Reducing risks,protecting people

The following is a pocket-guide on risk management developed by the Institute of Quarrying, Australia and the New South Wales Government. They have also developed a series of companion pocket-cards.

• Risk Management Pocket Guide
• Pocket Cards