News and Events

Over the past two days (19 – 20 Sep), 28 individuals representing 16 entities attended a two-day tyre and rim workshop in Brisbane. The two-day workshop enabled EMESRT to capitalise on industry engagement and make progress in addressing known fatality

Following on from the recent release of the tyre handler scenario-based storyboard animations, EMESRT makes available further tyre handler resources to industry, and they are: Tyre handling operations: direct and indirect interactions Problem-based design statement: tyre handler operator statement Tyre

Thank you to Mark and Sara for making the time to travel to Sydney and present. Mark and Sara have subsequently been asked to present the status of the EMESRT projects to the NSW Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar on

Serious incidents involving “Live Work” have become more prevalent in the industry as the technical complexity of designs has changed the way we conduct many traditional tasks.  This has led to calls for the industry to eliminate the need for

Incidents involve stored energy release during rapid deflations or catastrophic disassembly of wheel assemblies, tyre fires or explosions from pyrolysis, vehicle interactions, or crush injuries when moving tyres and wheels or working near the mobile equipment. EMESRT launched its tyre and rim industry initiative in 2018. EMESRT

Tony Egan, EMESRT Advisory Group member representing Glencore, presented at the Queensland Mining Safety and Health Advisory Committee vehicle interaction safety forum on Wednesday 12 July 2023. The forum provided an opportunity for participants to openly collaborate and share learnings

The inaugural leading sites forum webinar took place on 20 June 2023 with 22 participants contributing to discussions. The forum was formed following the recent Leading Sites four-day workshop attended by 34 participants representing Alcoa, AngloAmerican, Antofagasta, BHP, Freeport, Glencore,

The EMESRT Performance Requirement 4: Mobile Equipment Fire Management, published in December 2021, has been translated into four languages: French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The objective of Performance Requirement 4 (PR-4) is to provide structured and comprehensive information that can

The EMESRT 2022 Activity Report has been published. The Activity Report provides a summary of EMESRT activities including industry level project progress, engagement with industry and how EMESRT operates. It also highlights a number of milestones achieved in collaboration with

On 22 February, EMESRT presented to an audience of 300 who attended the industry-wide collision avoidance forum hosted by the Minerals Council of NSW and the New South Wales Resources Regulator.   EMESRT provided forum participants with an update on the International Council on Mining

The first EMESRT mobile equipment fire management and tyre and rim technical working group monthly meeting for 2023 was held on 7 February. What did the attendees hear: There were five dozer rollovers in a week and a half in

The first EMESRT Vehicle Interaction (VI) Technical Working Group (TWG) monthly meeting for 2023 was held today.   The safety share for this meeting was the recent New South Wales Resources Regulator incident notification that led to the death of

Despite ongoing improvements, hazards still create exposure for mobile equipment fires in both surface and underground mining if not well controlled through adequate designs and management practices.  Following an extensive industry consultative process, involving mining company representatives, original equipment manufacturers, regulators, fire detection and suppression