The ChallengeMining companies are experiencing increasing pressures to improve global competitiveness, reduce costs, and ensure the safety of the environment, their employees and the general public. To accomplish this, miners must stay vigilant in their pursuit of ensuring zero harm to their employees and their mines. Creating a profile of risk across a mine or across a company of mines is vital to understanding and mitigating potential hazards and incidents. Hazards come in many formats at a mine: confined spaces, electrical, mechanical, chemical, pressure (air, water, gases), noise, thermal, radiation, body mechanics, biological and the ever-present force of gravity. All of these must be understood and managed on a proactive basis to ensure zero harm.According to mining industry experts it is the misunderstanding of hazards, not their existence, which contributes to major or catastrophic incidents within a mine site. Mining companies know they have risks, they just are not able to manage them effectively, across a single mine or across a global mining enterprise. Analysis of historical mining incidents reveals hazards were identified but NOT thoroughly understood, so the specific risks causing the event were underestimated. This gap in understanding leads to inadequate controls and unacceptable residual risk. When it comes to running an effective mining company, risk profiling and management is imperative, not optional. Many risk assessment methodologies and tools are needed to understand and manage risk & hazards: Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Hazard Analysis (HAZAN), Workplace Risk Assessment and Control (WRAC), Bow-Tie Analysis, Incident Management (IM), Management of Change (MOC), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA) and Human Error Analysis (HEA). The ability to utilize these risk assessment and management tools and methods is fundamental to understanding and mitigating risks and hazards in the mining industry. The Dyadem SolutionTo accurately and proactively assess and manage risk, mining companies need visibility into risk and the ability to effectively and efficiently manage that risk across the enterprise. Dyadem’s Risk Lifecycle Management solutions were developed in collaboration with leading mining companies to help identify, assess and mitigate risks throughout their mining operations. The Stature Risk Lifecycle Management solution enables dramatic improvement in risk assessment allowing mining companies to manage a wide variety of risk assessment methodologies and tools likes the ones described above — all in one highly flexible, easy-to-use platform. Stature enables risks to be quickly and proactively identified while allowing the company to ensure that risks have been mitigated. Finally, Stature ensures critical information recovered from incidents and changes are efficiently and automatically included in future risk assessments allowing miners to create real-time risk profiles of their facilities at one site, one country, one business unit or across the globe. Dyadem solutions ensure mining companies are in control of the full lifecycle of risk; improving safety, reducing costs and achieving both shareholder and public goals.Stature Risk Lifecycle Management RiskSafe PHA-Pro SVA-Pro FTA-Pro FMEA-Pro |
"Zero Harm to our employees, the workplace, the community and the environment is the top priority for our operations. Risk management and MOC are a core part of our business."
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