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To investigate the safety and health performance and culture in the Australian Coal Mining Industry

dc.contributor.advisor Laurence, David en_US
dc.contributor.advisor Knights, Peter en_US
dc.contributor.advisor Daily, Chris en_US
dc.contributor.author Parkin, Raymond en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-22T12:54:45Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-22T12:54:45Z
dc.date.issued 2016 en_US
dc.description.abstract ABSTRACT The number of fatalities, serious bodily injuries and high potential injuries is unsatisfactory according to community standards; people are still being killed and seriously injured on mine sites due to human behaviour factors, such as not complying with rules, procedures and management failings. This research aims to conduct an analysis of the Australian Mining Industry safety performance and make comparisons with international mining operations, examine the mine safety environment and determine the effects that culture, risk management, prosecution policies, fly in fly out, fatigue and mental health are having on safety improvement. In this regard, as a major part of this research, a field survey has been conducted in the Qld and NSW coal mining industry. A total of 37 mines participated in manual and electronic surveys and responses were received from over 1200 questionnaires. A statistical comparison of the two surveys has been conducted using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. This research has found that fatigue and awareness issues as well as travel times to work are having a major impact on safety at work, which is particularly evident when employees are working 12 hour shifts. The survey results show that there is a lack of experienced personnel in the industry and that the effective management of contractors continues to cause concern. This research has demonstrated that the current approach to prosecution is counter-productive, as it inhibits thorough safety investigation and creates a defensive rather than a no blame culture. It also prevents the sharing of safety information and heeding the lessons learned. It has been found that there is a lack of training in safety management systems, management influence effects the outcomes of risk assessments, accident investigation would be better without legal people’s involvement and an official inquiry would produce better outcomes if there was no fear of prosecution. This research has demonstrated that the safety performance in the Australian Mining Industry has not improved and may even be deteriorating and that in order to improve safety performance the mining industry needs to adopt the recommendations which have been made regarding culture, prosecution policies, training, risk assessments, shift lengths and fly in fly out operations. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/56823
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher UNSW, Sydney en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.subject.other Mining operations. en_US
dc.subject.other Australian Coal Mining Industry. en_US
dc.subject.other Safety and health performance. en_US
dc.title To investigate the safety and health performance and culture in the Australian Coal Mining Industry en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dcterms.accessRights open access
dcterms.rightsHolder Parkin, Raymond
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/19170
unsw.relation.faculty Engineering
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Parkin, Raymond, Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Laurence, David, Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Knights, Peter, Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Daily, Chris, Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering *
unsw.thesis.degreetype PhD Doctorate en_US
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