Safe Work Australia – Draft National Mine Surveying Code of Practice

www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au

In late 2010, Draft National Mine Surveying Codes of Practice for Coal & Metals mines were released to the various State Survey Boards & AIMS for review and comment.

During February and March of 2011, a WA Industry Response to the proposed new codes was compiled and subsequently tabled with the WA Mine Survey Board and at the recently held AIMS industry response meeting in Sydney on the 17th March 2011.

The AIMS industry response meeting held in Sydney, was attended by the following National Mine Surveying representatives:

  • Callum McNaughton – QLD
  • Peter Sergeant – NSW
  • Chris Moy – NSW
  • Sergio Nasato – QLD
  • Shane Watson – WA
  • Renny Leo – WA
  • Michael Spiteri – SSSI Engineering & Mine Surveying Commission Chair

The WA response document was some 21 pages long and included submissions from the following members of the WA Mine Surveying community:

  • Russ Haigh – WA Mine Survey Board
  • Ben Ingham – WA Mine Survey Board
  • Shane Watson – WA Mine Survey Board
  • Tony Snow – WA Mine Survey Board
  • Louise Fogarty – Department of Mines & Petroleum
  • Brendon McCormack – Industry
  • Paul Craine – Industry
  • Lee Johnson – Industry
  • Mat Grillo – Industry
  • Renny Leo - Industry

Where appropriate the majority of the recommendations or proposed changes suggested in the WA response document were taken into account at the AIMS industry response meeting.

The end result being the development of one Draft National Mine Surveying Code of Practice to cover both Coal & Metals Mines.

The current draft Code now sits with the various State Survey boards and Safe Work Australia and should be released for public comment sometime mid 2011.


WA Mine Survey Board
 

  • Call for Nominations – Oral Exam Industry Panel Member Pool.
  • Nominations closed on the 1st of April – Thank you to all of those people who nominated for the Industry Panel Member pool.
  • The current pool of WA Grade 1 & 2 Authorisation Candidates recently sat their Compulsory Oral Exams with their applications for Authorisation to be considered at the next mine survey board meeting.
  • This process has now been running successfully since October 2010.
  • It is anticipated official DMP Guidance for both Supervising Mine Surveyors and Authorised Mine Surveyor candidates will be forthcoming mid 2011.

The next WA Mine Survey Board meeting is to be held on Friday the 13th of May.

Online DMP Mine Plan Submissions – please visit the following link: Click here


WASSIC2011

www.wassic.org.au

WASSIC2011 is being hosted by SSSIWA in partnership with SIBA & AIMS.

The majority of planning has now been completed with a “Call for Abstracts” being released recently as well as the registration form due for release very shortly.

This is the first time that AIMS have collaborated with SSSIWA at their annual state conference – the intention being to provide the WA Mine Surveying community with access to another quality annual event that provides all important CPD & networking opportunities.

The WA Mine Surveying community is urged to support WASSIC2011 where appropriate – as either a presenter, delegate, industry exhibitor or sponsor.

Please visit the WASSIC website for further information.


WA Key Contacts

Please direct any WA Mine Surveying enquires to:

Shane Watson – AIMS Director & WA Mine Survey Board
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Renny Leo – AIMS Director & SSSIWA Mining & Engineering Surveying Commission
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