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Mining Site Orientation Awareness (Pre-Induction)

Mining Site Orientation Awareness (Pre-Induction)

A plain-English orientation for people heading to a mine site who are not inducted yet, contractors and service crews, delivery and transport drivers, corporate, admin and technical visitors and new starters waiting on their formal generic induction. Learn why a mine is not an ordinary workplace, that mining has its own safety law in several states, who the statutory position holders are and why their instructions bind you, how permits and authority to work decide what you may touch, the hazards that kill on mines (mobile plant and haul roads, ground failure, isolation and stored energy, dust, explosives), what fitness for work means on a mine and how to get inducted properly. This is awareness only. It is not Standard 11 and it is not your site induction.

About 52 minutes100% online, self-pacedSix months of access

What You Will Learn

  • Explain what makes a mine different from an ordinary workplace, and why mining still has one of Australia's highest worker fatality rates
  • Identify which law and which regulator govern mine safety in your jurisdiction, and recognise that this differs sharply between states
  • Recognise the statutory position holders on a mine, the site senior executive, site senior officer or mine operator, and why their instructions are legal obligations, not requests
  • Describe how a mine's safety management system, permits and authority to work decide what you may and may not do on site
  • Recognise and keep clear of the hazards that kill on mines: mobile plant and haul roads, ground failure, isolation and stored energy, dust and explosives
  • Explain what fitness for work means on a mine, and set out the right path to being properly inducted

Course Content

Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available

Who This Course Is For

Contractors, service technicians and trades heading to a mine for the first time; delivery, freight and transport drivers; corporate, administration, technical and consulting visitors; and new starters who want a grounding before they sit their formal generic induction. Anyone who will step onto or beside a mine site without yet holding the site's induction.

Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.

Sources and Legal References

Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.

Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course only. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, not an RTO Statement of Attainment and not any form of licence, ticket or competency sign-off. In particular, this course is not Standard 11, the coal industry's name for the generic coal mine induction, which is built to meet Recognised Standard 11 'Training in coal mines', a standard made by the Minister under section 72 of the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 (Qld) and which in practice is delivered by Registered Training Organisations. This course does not replace it, does not shorten it and gives you no credit towards it. It is also not a site induction: no online course can be your induction to a particular mine, because an induction is about that mine's own hazards, rules and emergency arrangements. It does not authorise you to carry out any mining work, operate any plant, enter any restricted area or hold any statutory position. If your role requires a generic induction, a coal board or mine medical, a high risk work licence or a statutory certificate of competency, speak to your employer, the mine operator or an RTO. This course does not replace any of them. The mine's safety management system, its induction and the directions of its statutory position holders always decide what you may and may not do on any particular site.
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