November 14th & 15th 2007
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Return to NSW Industrial Maintenance Roundtable (IMRt)
Roundtable Meeting 14th November at Cronulla Rydges Hotel
The meeting started of with attendee introductions and General Business Media:14_Nov_IMRt_NSW_General_Business.pdf
Improving Safety with the Use and Maintenance of Hydraulic Systems
This presentation by Paul Gill, the Group Engineer Underground Operations from Xstrata Coal NSW, is about the safety journey have undertaken related to hydraulics. A serious hydraulic safety incident involving an experience Xstrata Hydraulics Technician challenged their hydraulic procedures, practices and some of their hardware design. Xstrata Coal has achieved significant learning’s and some of their success has come from their building a strong relationship with a hydraulic supplier/ service provider.
Download Paul's Presentation Media:Hydraulic_Presentation_Xstrata.pdf or a Draft Copy of the MDG41 Hydraulic Standard Media:MDG_41_PrePub_DRAFT_060803.pdf
OHS Mock Court – Making OHS Legislation Personal
In the recent CIWG on Contractor Safety Warren Steele from ANSTO praised highly the ‘OHS Mock Court’ and others who had been involved with it concurred in its ability to change people’s attitudes to safety and how it is managed. Tony Morris, who was integrally involved with developing the approach, gave an explanation of the OHS Mock Court and its objectives. The key focus is getting people to understand the requirment under the law to provide "Safe Systems of Work", the need to use a "heirachy of control" for hazards and the importance of an OH&S Coach. Reference site for Regulations Work Cover Website.
Download Tony's Presentation Media:OH&S_Mock_Court.pdf
Achieving Major Improvement in Safety Culture
Dr. Chris Darling is the Manager Safety, Health and Risk at BlueScope Steel took us through the Safety Culture journey that Bluescope has been through over the last 10 to 15 years and went into the key drivers that they are now using to try to achieve the next level of safety performance. BlueScope Steel is widely regarded as an Australian industry leader in their success at achievement of a strong safety culture. Bluescope was an early Australian adopter of the DuPont Safety Management approach. They have been able to achieve a consistent improvement in safety performance over an extended period of time. They recently achieved 20 Million man-hours between Lost Time Injuries.
See more detailed notes on Chris's presentation Achieving Major Improvement in Safety Culture
The breakout session on Wednesday afternoon on
Key issues Related to Contractor Supervision
Site Tour ANSTO OPAL Nuclear Reactor
Site Tour for ANSTO's new OPAL Nuclear Reactor was kindly hosted by Matt Richards. Matt is the Maintenance Engineer in Charge of the OPAL Reactor and he took us through a detailed technical explanation of the Reactor as well as an overview of the work he has been managing on setting up the maintenance system for the Reactor. After lunch the group was split in two and were taken around the Neutron Beam Scientific area (see bottom picture below) and well as getting the chance to go up onto the reactor floor level. The Reactor is due to start again in January after an extended outage due to some problems found with the reactor rods during commissioning.
