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Benefits of good self-regulation

• What you can do to make your workplace a safer
  one!

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What is the mines inspectorates role?
Seek compliance and enforce legislation
Raise awareness
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What do we mean by self-regulation?

• Who is in charge?
• What responsibilities do they have?
• Legal considerations
• Foreseeable?
• Reasonable?
• Prior knowledge?
• Who is best placed to regulate the mine?
• Inspector?
• Managers and supervisors?
• Anyone else? .

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Principal employer or employer control and
enforcement
Investigations Inspections Site safety
plan Statutory reporting Information Supervision T
raining Instructions Procedures development Risk
analysis and control hierarchy PMP preparation
and approval
DMP control and enforcement
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Safety culture spectrum
Vulnerable Rule followers Robust Enlightened Resilient
In denial Messengers shot Whistleblowers dismissed or discredited Protection of the powerful Information hoarded Responsibility shirked Failure punished or covered up New ideas crushed Deal by the book Conform to rules Target zero Reactive Repair not reform Information neglected Responsibility compartmentalised New ideas problems Develop risk management capacity Enhance systems Improve suite of performance measures Develop action plans Monitor and review progress Clarify/refine objectives Active leadership Safety management plan widely known Competent people with experience Accountabilities understood Advanced performance measures Regular reviews Range of emergency responses catered for Strive for resilience of systems Reform rather than repair Responsibility shared Actively seek new ideas Messengers rewarded Proactive as well as reactive Failures prompt far-reaching inquiries Flexibility of operation Consistent mindset is wariness
in disarray pathological organised reactive credible calculative trusting proactive disciplined generative
Sanction Direct Encourage Partner Champion
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What does it mean in practice?

• Ensure employer-approved procedures and
  instructions in place before starting work and
  when there are changes
• left hand needs to know what the right hand is
  doing
• Assume that what can go wrong, does go wrong
• plan for Murphys (or Sods) law!
• Be risk-focused not task-driven
• make your luck
• Be hands on not hands off when managing and
  supervising
• be there for high risk activities
• Be hands off not hands on when dealing with
  danger
• stay away from hazards
• Match the control to the risk
• apply the hierarchy of control

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Ask yourself .

• What can kill or seriously hurt my people?
• What are the key controls that will keep them
  safe?
• Are these controls in place and will they work
  when needed?

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