Workbooks and Safety Kits
Risk Management Pocket Guide
The Risk Management Pocket Guide assists small mines and quarries address the three main steps to managing risks: identifying hazards, assessing risks and choosing the best controls for those risks. The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD.
The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.As part of the kit there is also a 44-page practical guide Risk Management Pocket Guide: a memory jogger for people on the job in the mining and quarrying industry, especially in smaller operations and a CD training presentation kit with notes used in the Refining Your Safety Management Plan workshops. The kit is can be purchased from NSW DPI at a cost of $30 (plus postage and handling). To order a copy contact the Information and Customer Service Counter.
Minerals Industry Safety Handbook
Small Mines Safety Management Kit
New edition released May 2009
Safety Management Plan Workbook
This workbook has been produced to provide assistance to those with responsibility for the development and implementation of their own site-specific Safety Management Plan. The workbook has been developed with input from industry representatives, the Department of Mineral Resources and its Inspectorate and health and safety professionals.
The workbook can be purchased from NSW DPI at a cost of $22. To order a copy contact the Information and Customer Service Counter.
Health Management Plan Toolkit
Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
This guide from WorkCover NSW aims to assist employers establish a workplace drug and alcohol policy so that the issue can be dealt with ethically, legally and to the benefit of both the organisation and the employee.
Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
Risk Assessment Workbook for Mines
This workbook is designed to give the user a starting point to identify and manage hazards at the mine site. It is a step-by-step approach to identify hazards, assess risks and implement controls.
It is consistent with other NSW Mine Safety Operations publications such as the Risk Management Pocket Guide and the General Workplace Inspection Checklist.
The Risk Management Pocket Guide provides a daily prompt for people on the job to develop their understanding and experience by encouraging the daily discipline of managing risks whilst carrying out tasks in the mining and quarrying industries.
This workbook is designed to take those principles from the Risk Management Pocket Guide and implement them at the mine site from the front gate to the back gate, prompting the user to look at a wide range of hazards.
This workbook uses a simplified form of a Workplace Risk Assessment and Control (WRAC), it does not cover all hazards and the user should add those hazards not identified in the workbook.
The workbook highlights the prescribed hazards from the Mine Heath and Safety Regulation 2007 and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001.
The workbook allows the user to assess the risks from the identified hazards from low to high. This should enable the user to have a better understanding of what hazards have a high risk and thus examine if existing controls used are appropriate or need to be reviewed.