- Title
- Safety culture and resilience engineering exploring theory and application in improving gold mining safety
- Creator
- Pillay, Manikam; Borys, David; Else, Dennis; Tuck, Michael
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40804
- Identifier
- vital:4676
- Abstract
- Contemporary approaches to safety management appear to be failing short of meeting its mark in improving mine safety. This is evidenced by the high workers compensation, high incidence rates and fatalties. Evidence from high-risk and complex organisations points towards safety culture as being important in improving site safety. In more recent years resilience engineering has been touted as a new and innovative way of managing safety. This paper reviews and synthesises previous literature on safety culture and resilience engineering. It then highlights methods that can be used to measure safety culture and resilience engineering, and explores similarities and differences between complex organisation and gold mining to identify opportunities for more innovative approaches to improving safety in gold mining operations through safety culture and reslience engineering.
- Publisher
- Ballarat The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- Relation
- Paper presented at Gravity gold 2010 'Optimising recovery' p. 129-140
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Safety; OHS; Mining
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