1. Reporting Incidents and Hazards Accident Prevention
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Reporting Incidents and Hazards
Accident Prevention

2. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
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3. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
MSHA Training Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention

4. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
BPC Safety and General Work Rules
“Report any potentially dangerous condition to your
supervisor immediately.
“Report injuries to your supervisor immediately …”
“All incidents (accidents and near misses) require a written report and investigation”.
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5. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
BPC Surface Blasting procedures:
Any misfire or hazardous condition must be reported to the Blaster-In-Charge’s immediate supervisor immediately.
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6. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
BPC Surface Blasting procedures:
The following steps should be followed in case a rock travels outside the expected Blast Area (greater than one-half the distance to the closest structure for construction work, 300’ for quarries, and 500’ for coal strip). No personal injury or property damage.
The Blaster-In-Charge should notify the Site Manager or Site Supervisor. The Blaster-In-Charge, the Site Manager or Site Supervisor must immediately file an Incident Report.
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7. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
The following steps should be followed in situations where a rock travels off mine property, or causes either Personal Injury or Property Damage.
The Blaster-In-Charge must notify the Site Manager, Tech Manager, Safety Manager, and the Operations immediately.
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8. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
All Fatalities, Injuries and Illnesses
All Fires and Explosions
All Property Damage
All Process Losses
All Reportable Environmental Events
Citation and Violations
All Blasting Related Events
Misfires, Flyrock,
Complaints from External Sources
Vibration, Air Blast
Near Misses
Take 5! Hazards
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9. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Definitions:
Accident-Any event that results in death, injury to people, damage to property or the environment.
Near Miss-Any event that could have resulted in death, injury to people or damage to property or the environment.
Loss-Avoidable waste of any resource.
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10. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Definitions:
Hazard-A condition or practice with the potential for accidental loss.
Risk Assessment-Evaluating the potential severity of loss along with the probability and frequency of exposure.
Risk-Chance of loss.
Control-Compliance with standards or requirements to reduce loss.
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11. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Examples of Immediate Causes (mistakes that are made) that can lead to incidents:
Failure to secure
Operating at improper speed
Using defective equipment
Failure to use personal protective equipment
Improper lifting
Servicing equipment in operation
Horseplay
Failure to follow procedures
Under the influence of alcohol and/or other drugs
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12. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Immediate Causes (mistakes that are made):
Defective tools
Congested or restricted action
Poor housekeeping, disorderly workplace
Hazardous environmental conditions: dust, gases, fumes, vapors
Inadequate guards or barriers
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13. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Examples of Basic Causes (why mistakes occur):
Inadequate instructions, orientation and/or training
Inadequate or incorrect performance feedback
Inadequate policy, procedure, practice guidelines
Inadequate engineering
Improper storage or handling of materials
Inadequate specifications to vendors
Inadequate preventative maintenance
Inadequate inspections and repair of equipment
Inadequate availability of tools
Inadequate development of standards
Use for wrong purpose
Wear and Tear
Abuse and Misuse
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14. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Why Accident Investigation?
Prevent a recurrence with effective corrective action
Determine the immediate and basic causes
Factual information for incident review board
Document company’s version of the incident
Completion of OSHA/MSHA required reporting and investigation standards
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15. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Accidents will happen…
when we fail to act accordingly, or fail to adequately deal with hazardous conditions.
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16. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
We must control the causes of accidents in order to prevent them….
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17. Reporting Hazards and Accident Prevention
Who loses…..
You
Your family
Your friends
Your coworkers
Your company
Our industry
Everybody loses!!
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