Title/Short Description | Source | Subject | Date |
Fatal 2 - Managing workplace transport and pedestrian interface. MPA launches two new guides
New Deployable MPA Resources to Support Your Initiatives
Workplace Transport and Pedestrian Interface has been identified by MPA's Health & Safety Committee as one of 'The Fatal 6' high consequence hazards that have been the main cause of fatalities and serious injuries and incidents over the last decade.
A range of resources have been launched including an Employee's booklet, a Manager's handbook together with several supporting posters and stickers. These are all downloadable from the Fatal 2 section of Safequarry
| MPA | Pedestrian safety | 27/10/2020 |
Rollover of tipper
The rollover of a tipper in the Midlands this week reinforces the importance of ensuring that drivers and operators understand how to prevent these incidents. CEMEX has produced a video on rollover prevention, this topic is also covered in MPA's Driver's Handbook.
View CEMEX Video
| CEMEX | Transport | 24/07/2020 |
Toolbox Talk - Using handbrakes
MPA has created a toolbox talk on using the handbrake – it includes two graphic videos of what can happen if you forget.
Please click here to view.
| MPA | | 25/02/2020 |
A guide to pedestrian safety in quarries and surface mining
This guide highlights the steps one needs to take to separate pedestrians form mobile plant and other traffic.
| QNJAC | Pedestrian safety | 28/11/2016 |
Quarry vehicle safety
HSENI has produced a booklet that identifies ways to minimise the risks associated with the operation of vehicles in quarries. Activities such as loading, travelling on haul roads, reversing operations, tipping operations, vehicle / pedestrian interface and sharing roadways with outside contractor’s vehicles are potentially hazardous if not managed to mitigate risk. The booklet reviews issues such as brake testing, all-round visibility, the provision of adequate edge protection, the maintenance of the surface of the haul roads and the gradient of the haul roads. Please read and share with others.
| | Transport | 05/09/2016 |
Artic tipper guidance - preventing overturns
Lafarge Tarmac has issued a booklet to assist all parts of the business in understanding, reviewing and addressing the use of tipping vehicles – and ensuring that every part of the process is carried out safely. Click on the heading to view a pdf of the booklet
| Lafarge Tarmac | Transport | 04/02/2015 |
Creating a Controlled Safe Working Area
To undertake any activity within a Quarry Operation, it is necessary to create and control a safe working area. This guidance sheet represents best practice and has been formulated by the QNJAC to promote Zero Harm in the Workplace. It has been produced for, and is aimed at, small independent businesses, new ventures and sole traders.
| QNJAC | Contractors | 27/02/2013 |
Regulation 22 Guidance on Dangerous Areas within Quarries
This information sheet gives guidance to assist quarry operators in providing equipment or barriers specifically to comply with Regulation 22 of the Quarries Regulations 1999 (relating to Danger Areas within the quarry). It should be read in conjunction with the Approved code of Practice “Health and Safety at Quarries” (L118) which can be downloaded free of charge from HSE’s website (http://books.hse.gov.uk/hse/public/home.jsf). This information sheet is not intended to deal with the danger zone created during shotfiring operations and should be read in conjunction with the Regulation 16 information sheet.
| QNJAC | Quarries Legislation | 23/10/2012 |