FUTURE MINE SAFETY REGULATION

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FUTURE MINE SAFETY REGULATION -

• Inspiration or the dead hand of regulation?
• Graham Terrey

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Generative safety is how we do business round
here
Increasingly Informed
Proactive we work on the problems that we still
find
Calculative we have safe systems in place to
manage all hazards
Reactive safety is important, we do a lot every
time we have an accident
Increasing Trust
Pathological who cares as long as were not
caught
(Hudson, 2001)
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Task v process

• resilient
• strive for resilience
• of systems
• - what if? scenarios
• reform rather than
• repair
• responsibility shared
• actively seek new
• ideas
• messengers rewarded
• proactive as well
• as reactive
• failures prompt
• far-reaching enquiries
• flexibility of
• operation
• consistent mindset
• wariness
• self-disciplined

• enlightened
• active leadership
• safety management
• plan widely known
• two-way information
• exchange
• competent people
• with experience
• accountabilities
• understood
• advanced
• performance measures
• regular reviews
• range of emergency
• responses catered for
• trusting

• robust
• develop risk
• management capacity
• enhance systems
• improve suite of
• performance measures
• improve consultation
• develop action plans
• monitor/review
• progress
• clarify/refine
• objectives
• credible

• rule
• followers
• deal by the book
• conform to rules
• target zero
• reactive
• repair not reform
• info neglected
• responsibility
• compartmentalised
• new ideas
• problems
• organised

• vulnerable
• in denial
• messengers shot
• whistleblowers
• sacked/discredited
• protection of
• powerful people
• info hoarded
• responsibility shirked
• failure punished/
• covered up
• new ideas crushed
• crisis managed

Process task, good outcomes - becoming competent
Task focussed company perspective - unconsciously
incompetent
Some (poor) recognition of outcome - consciously
incompetent
Outcome driven - best tool? consciously competent
Principles and values -unconsciously competent
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communication

• resilient
• strive for resilience
• of systems
• - what if? scenarios
• reform rather than
• repair
• responsibility shared
• actively seek new
• ideas
• messengers rewarded
• proactive as well
• as reactive
• failures prompt
• far-reaching enquiries
• flexibility of
• operation
• consistent mindset
• wariness
• self-disciplined

• enlightened
• active leadership
• safety management
• plan widely known
• two-way information
• exchange
• competent people
• with experience
• accountabilities
• understood
• advanced
• performance measures
• regular reviews
• range of emergency
• responses catered for
• trusting

• robust
• develop risk
• management capacity
• enhance systems
• improve suite of
• performance measures
• improve consultation
• develop action plans
• monitor/review
• progress
• clarify/refine
• objectives
• credible

• rule
• followers
• deal by the book
• conform to rules
• target zero
• reactive
• repair not reform
• info neglected
• responsibility
• compartmentalised
• new ideas
• problems
• organised

• vulnerable
• in denial
• messengers shot
• whistleblowers
• sacked/discredited
• protection of
• powerful people
• info hoarded
• responsibility shirked
• failure punished/
• covered up
• new ideas crushed
• crisis managed

keep secret
inform
consult
eff. negotiate
delegate
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Criticisms of regulators

• The dead hand - Westrum
• Reactive, or leading?
• Gamekeeper, or poacher?
• Client capture?
• Functions vs politics and culture
• Reviews (eg WA, Qld, NSW)
• Effectiveness - need, credibility, relevance,
  impact
• Efficiency - best use of not unlimited resources

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Regulator responses

• resilient
• strive for resilience
• of systems
• - what if? scenarios
• reform rather than
• repair
• responsibility shared
• actively seek new
• ideas
• messengers rewarded
• proactive as well
• as reactive
• failures prompt
• far-reaching enquiries
• flexibility of
• operation
• consistent mindset
• wariness
• self-disciplined

• enlightened
• active leadership
• safety management
• plan widely known
• two-way information
• exchange
• competent people
• with experience
• accountabilities
• understood
• advanced
• performance measures
• regular reviews
• range of emergency
• responses catered for
• trusting

• robust
• develop risk
• management capacity
• enhance systems
• improve suite of
• performance measures
• improve consultation
• develop action plans
• monitor/review
• progress
• clarify/refine
• objectives
• credible

• rule
• followers
• deal by the book
• conform to rules
• target zero
• reactive
• repair not reform
• info neglected
• responsibility
• compartmentalised
• new ideas
• problems
• organised

• vulnerable
• in denial
• messengers shot
• whistleblowers
• sacked/discredited
• protection of
• powerful people
• info hoarded
• responsibility shirked
• failure punished/
• covered up
• new ideas crushed
• crisis managed

sanction
direct
encourage
partner
champion
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Functions of regulators

• Standards or expectations of industry performance
• Evaluation (planned and unplanned) of performance
  against expectations
• Change performance of site or industry (as a
  consequence of that evaluation) - application of
  the hierarchy of enforcement
• Internal performance improvement

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Inspiration or the dead hand?

• can the regulator lead better standards?
• and encourage better site evaluation?
• and better monitor and target, leading targeted
  campaigns?
• while undergoing open process review and
  improvement?

• Standards
• Evaluation
• Change performance
• Internal improvement

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