Lake Shore Gold has confirmed that a medical-related incident occurred at the Timmins West Mine in North Eastern Ontario, Canada where a 55-year-old sub-contractor died of an unspecified condition...
Category - First Aid & Medical Response
Providing first aid and medical responses to mining emergencies and disaster-related events is an important element of risk mitigation for mining companies. Mining companies typically employ or contract specialist paramedics, occupational nurses and first aiders to respond to mining site based emergencies.
Mature and socially responsible mining companies typically have a site medical treatment or first aid centre with appropriately skilled personnel to run the centre. The key advantage of first response treatment of emergencies on mining sites is to lessen the potential for damage to personnel.
Site-based first aiders (occupational first aiders) typically work within the workforce and assist in maintaining and facilitating first aid treatment to injured workers. First aiders typically have a range of basic skills and competencies to enable them to provide an emergency first aid response. The skills include CPR, administration/use of oxygen and resuscitation equipment, managing extreme heat cold affected persons, controlling bleeding, fractures and trauma, understanding the chemical system and material safety data sheets, triage of multiple casualties
In addition, there is a range of legislative requirements of an Occupational First Aider that must be understood.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE A recently released research paper on the impact of mining injuries will assist mine site first responders and paramedics to be more prepared for emergency events. Professor...
If you’ve ever wanted to upskill your kids with some first aid skills, a new app has been created by St John’s Victoria that uses gamification techniques to teach first aid skills to the...
The NSW Resources Regulator has responded to a reported death of a worker in a crib room at the Peabody Wilpinjong Coal Mine near Mudgee. At around 4pm on 17 October 2018 a worker is reported to have...
A hard-hitting new safety video has just been launched by WorkCover, addressing the high-risk activity of loading and unloading flatbed trucks and trailers. The video establishes how an experienced...
First aid training should be compulsory for all people getting their drivers licence for the first time, or renewing their existing licence, according to a spokesperson from St John’s Ambulance...
The mining industry in Australia, through innovation, risk identification, use of meaningful safety indicators and the sharing of information sits proudly in the global mining industry with one of...
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) has launched a dedicated medical training program for members of mine rescue teams across the state. The program has been developed in conjunction...
Although the NSW coal mining industry maintains one of the best health and safety records in the world, workers continue to suffer injuries on a regular basis. According to Coal Services...
Eight teams from across NSW met at Singleton on Saturday to compete in the 2013 Coal Services (CS) Coal Industry First Aid Competition; with Tahmoor from Xstrata in Wollongong being named overall...
