This paper addresses the question of whether adopting safety culture improves hazard prevention in enterprises characterized by high primary risk. To answer this question, sample underground coal mines were examined to investigate the basic elements of the safety culture of employees. This paper presents the results of a diagnosis of the basic elements of the safety culture of supervisors (midl...

This paper summarises the findings of the site assessments of ten pilot mine sites involved in a project entitled, Creating a world-leading OHS culture in the NSW Mining Industry which was undertaken for the New South Wales Mine Safety Advisory Council (NSW MSAC). NSW MSAC was established in 1998 in NSW Australia and aims to increase the emphasis on safety and health within the mining industry ...

Mavres Petres mine is an underground mine, located in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, that owned and operated by Hellas Gold; a wholly subsidiary of Eldorado Gold Corporation. The extracts highgrade lead zinc orebody using drift fill mining method. Backfill integral part cycle at mine. Filtered coarse tailings mixed with cement are used for making cemented hydraulic backfill surface batching plant...

With ongoing catastrophic mine tailings dam failures, the hindsight revelation of poor safety records, and an increasing prevalence public scrutiny attention mining operations, there is a...

Two mine-fire experiments were conducted in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL) which demonstrated that smoke from diesel-fuel fires of 500 kW and 660 kW heat-release rates in a return airway can develop, without causing a complete air flow reversal, into a roof layer that can migrate up...