Welcome to the August 2025 edition of CORESafety TV, brought to you by the National Mining Association (NMA).

Recently, the NMA developed an updated version of CORESafety, the legacy safety and health management system (SHMS) for our member companies.

CORESafety TV is now featuring an overview of each of the ten (10) new modules that comprise the system.

Take a few minutes now for a look at Module 7 —

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CORESafety Module 7:

In CORESafety, you can learn various types of hazard and risk assessments that should occur, followed by implementing new programs or processes to control the risks.

However, any changes that occur in the mining operation or related facilities should not introduce new hazards, negatively change the risk rating of existing hazards or degrade controls.

Organizations must routinely identify changes in the organization, and at the operation, that may introduce new risks or increase unacceptable risks.

This is done by proactively looking for and controlling change at every level of the organization and across functional areas, including emergency management – where the full management of change is likely to be unrealistic.

As such, management of change and emergency management should be closely coordinated, to ensure emergency procedures exercised in response to a crisis or emergency do not introduce additional and unacceptable risk.


CORESafety Expectations

Managing a change process must define what constitutes a significant change and who must follow the process. The process itself must include the following aspects:

• The reason for the change
• A risk assessment to identify and control any potential consequences both during the change and as a result of the change
• A review with affected employees or stakeholders
• Communication with all affected people
• A defined authorization/approval process
• A method to ensure controls are implemented and documentation, diagrams and procedures are updated
• A post-change review to ensure the change did not result in any unforeseen hazards

– You must communicate the management of change processes to ensure all potentially affected parties understand their obligations.

– Management of change decisions must be documented for ongoing tracking, verification and reference purposes.

– All new operations, mines, expansions, processing facilities, major mobile and fixed equipment and control systems must undergo pre-start-up safety reviews (PSSR).

– Safety and health management aspects of construction work conducted on organization property should conform to the organization’s SHMS standards and expectations.

MORE TO KNOW

Be sure to watch CORESafety TV in the coming months as we update you on all ten of the new CORESafety modules!

To visit our CORESafety website, click here.