#TheSafetyShare: S1E5-20230921 Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention for Engineers
Channel: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
Date: 25/10/2023

The Safety Share: Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention for Engineers

This episode of #TheSafetyShare will build on Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention in mining and metal processing, specifically what engineers can do to design out potentially fatal conditions in our mines, plants and systems. Our industry has made significant progress over the past decades in significantly reducing serious injuries and fatalities using concepts and principles like ALARA (As Low As Reasonable Acceptable), the hierarchy of controls, and management of change. However, our collective progress has plateaued in recent years, indicating that we still have a long way to go in achieving our collective mission of zero lives lost and zero lives harmed by an occupational illness or injury.

Our focus on occupational health and safety often leads to the most effort being put towards the operating site and field level risk management and hazard elimination during normal operations, upset conditions and planned maintenance shutdowns. During this session, our guest speakers will discuss what engineers and technical managers, who may not visit the field daily, can do to build fatality prevention into their designs, not only from a technical aspect but also from a human factors or social aspect.

Join guest speakers Jon Treen, president of Automate Mining, and Brian Maynard, a former mining executive with Anglo American, now retired, to be a part of a discussion of what SIF Prevention looks like from an engineering perspective, how we can design infrastructure, equipment and systems to eliminate fatal risk, and the process that  design engineers and managers can follow as they look to identify and implement solutions that will build momentum towards preventing fatalities and serious injuries in our industry.

Presented by CIM Magazine and CIM Health & Safety Society