| Title/Short Description | Source | Subject | Date |
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 |