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Health and safety are about prevention and response
Mining companies in Canada have invested millions of dollars in developing safety management systems to support personal safety, process safety and literally transform workplace culture.
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INQUEST: Look into double fatality at Stobie to begin April 20
SUDBURY, Ontario – The Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario announced yesterday that an inquest will begin on April 20 into the deaths of Jason Chenier and Jordan Fram. The inquest is expected to last 10 days, and the jury is may make…
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SAFETY: A life saving model for oil sands operations
CALGARY – Injuries to workers in the oil sands are on the decline, but using data analysis tools and making some cultural shifts can help make workers even safer, says a new report released today from Visser Deloitte.
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SAFETY: Ontario releases update from mining health and safety review
TORONTO – The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released a progress report from the mining health, safety and prevention review. The final report is not due until next year, but some of the recommendations are important enough to begin…
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SAFETY: Vale team returns from international mine rescue trials
POLAND – They may not have won the international mine rescue competition held recently in Katowice, Poland, but the team from Vale’s East Mines came home to Sudbury, ON, with their heads held high.
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SAFETY: Preliminary mining safety review panel calls for early actions
The Ontario Ministry of Labour Mining Health, Safety and Prevention Review’s progress report, which was released last week, is already leading to changes making positive impacts on mining health and safety. This panel started work in January…
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SAFETY: Vale team off to international mine rescue competition in Poland
SUDBURY, Ontario – The mine rescue team from Vale’ East mine, winner of the provincial competition in June, is off to Poland later this week for the international contest in Poland.
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SAFETY: ICMM totals numbers for 22 member companies
LONDON, UK – The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has for the first time published aggregated safety data from its 22 member companies for 2012 and 2013. Because reporting safety varies depending on where an operation…
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SAFETY: Vale wins Ontario mine rescue competition
ONTARIO – The team from Vale Canada’s East mines were crowned with gold hardhats as the overall winners of the 64th annual Provincial Mine Rescue Competition. The contest was sponsored by Workplace Safety North and Ontario Mines Rescue on…
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COMMENT: The Elliot Lake strike and 40 years of safer mines
Forty years ago uranium miners in Elliot Lake, ON, staged a wildcat strike to call attention to the need for improved health and safety conditions. Silicosis and lung cancer were occupational hazards. The miners’ determination, and that of…
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AWARD: Safety innovation from J.S. Redpath
SUDBURY, Ontario – At the annual Workplace Safety North conference, held April 4-10, J.S. Redpath Limited earned top honours in the juried line-up of industry safety innovation awarded annually by the Ontario Mining Contractors’…
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COMMENT: One dead, one injured at Sudbury smelter
An accident at 6:30 pm on April 6 at Vale’s Copper Cliff smelter has killed one man and severely injured another while they were working in the casting/crushing plant.
