Associated non-technical skills - ANTS
ANTS are the cognitive, social and personal resource skills that complement technical skills and contribute to safe and efficient task performance. This initiative is targeting the key non-technical skills of:
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situation awareness;
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leadership;
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teamwork;
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communication, and;
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decision making.
The NSW mining and extractives industry has already embraced a range of initiatives to underpin the development of a World-leading OHS culture and practice. Under the umbrella of the NSW Mine Safety Advisory Council (MSAC), the industry has developed a comprehensive World-leading OHS Culture Action Plan.
ANTS are one of MSAC’s key tools for delivering the mining industry’s 2009 CEO Summit vision to build the capacity of the NSW mining and extractives industry.
One of the key elements of the Action Plan to build this capacity is to foster and promote the usefulness of ANTS. Competence in ANTS enables all who work in the industry to interact effectively. Research relating to incidents in high risk industry sectors such as aviation, medicine, oil and gas, and mining indicates that the failure of work systems to produce the OHS outcomes often result from inadequacy of ANTS.
A series of fact sheets have been developed to assist employers, unions, workers, contractors and the regulator to promote the use of ANTS within the industry.
Download Fact Sheets –
ANTS Factsheet No.1 – A shared commitment to world-leading OHS culture
ANTS Factsheet No.2 – Vision for a world-leading OHS culture
ANTS Factsheet No.3 – Change to achieve a world-leading OHS culture
ANTS Factsheet No.4 – Capacity building in Associated Non-Technical Skills
ANTS Factsheet No 5 - Situation Awareness
ANTS Factsheet No 6 - Decision Making
ANTS Factsheet No 7 - Leadership