If this is flawed, then the safety management system will be flawed. The basic building block of any safety management system is the identification of hazards and the assessment of associated risk. Manufacturers and suppliers do not provide the necessary instruction with new products that they launch Many drillers and supervisors are not properly trained and, The risk assessment, is poor and / or incomplete and as a consequence the contractor’s safety management system is flawed Why then are they overlooked? Why do these issues reoccur? I believe that there are three contributing factors: The issues are not complex, they are fundamental inspection and maintenance issues that should be the very basis of the contractor’s safety management system. On most occasions, the visits are safety or training related and despite the fact that some of the contractors are large, international companies and some are very small companies, I consistently see the same safety issues at all of them. Often the contractors are small to medium size companies, but I am lucky enough to also see drill sites run by some of the largest companies in the world. I get to see shallow diamond core operations, deep coring operations, dual-tube reverse circulation and rotary percussion operations.
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