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CORESafety Tips: Sensible Safety with Seat Belts

Fasten Your Seat Belts For Safety.  It’s easy to forget to fasten your seat belt when driving or operating machinery around a mining operation. And yet, it’s one of the easiest things an equipment operator can do to stay safe. Wearing a seat belt can protect you against injury in the event of a serious accident. It can also help you maintain control of equipment […]

CORESafety TV: July 2019

Some Real World Insights Into Leadership and CORESafety Welcome to the July edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. Leadership development is a process that begins with leaders understanding their strengths and weaknesses. This understanding helps leaders focus on areas of potential improvement.  CORESafety emphasizes that leaders in mining […]

Safety Share: Maintaining Good Health

  The old adage says, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”; however, the reality of wellbeing for those who work in mining is a bit more complicated than that. Factors affecting wellbeing go beyond physical health, stretching to mental acuity and vigour, stress maintenance, a positive work culture and proper work-life balance, along […]

CORESafety Tips: How to Lessen the Risks of Powered Haulage Collisions

Powered haulage incidents are one of the biggest safety concerns for mining companies and their workers. We’re now halfway through 2019 and there have been four powered haulage fatalities reported so far this year by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Many powered haulage accidents involve collisions with other vehicles or equipment. This downloadable PDF includes some best practices that may […]

Safety Share: Wearable safety technology, monitoring miners with IBM

International technology firm IBM has teamed up with a number of companies, using its Maximo Worker Insights platform to help in the collection of safety data, and ensuring risk-free operations. JP Casey finds out how data fed back to supervisors and safety officials can keep workers out of dangerous environments. While safety remains a priority […]

CORESafety TV: June 2019

It’s National Safety Month… Don’t Let a Friend or Coworker Become a Statistic Welcome to the June edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. This is National Safety Month, as recognized by the National Safety Council (NSC), CORESafety and hundreds of other organizations across the country. This year’s theme is […]

How Alaska’s Usibelli Coal Mine Is Making the Most Out of CORESafety

In April 2019, Usibelli Coal Mine (UCM) in Healy, Alaska surpassed its all-time safety record by completing 797 days without a single lost-time accident. Shortly afterwards, CORESafety interviewed Joe Usibelli Jr., the president and CEO of the company that was founded by his grandfather in 1943.  He explained how UCM got started with CORESafety and what […]

CORESafety TV: May 2019

Welcome to the May edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. This month, we’re introducing a new in-depth interview segment called “Center of Safety” on CORESafety TV. Periodically, we’ll be talking with mining executives where we “dig a little deeper” by asking how they themselves got started in mining. We’ll […]

Staying in Compliance with Legal Mining Requirements: Module #16

Sending miners home safely at the end of every day is what mining operations should constantly be striving to achieve. That’s the whole point of CORESafety’s 0-50-5 objective. Operations should always be in full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements to ensure value-added regulations are leveraged. The 1977 Mine Act, as amended by the 2006 MINER […]

Safety Share: Usibelli Coal Mine Achieves All-Time Best Safety Record

Healy, AK – On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 employees at Usibelli Coal Mine (UCM) worked 798 consecutive days without a single lost time accident (LTA), setting a new record for safety at the mine. The mine’s previous safety record was set in 2006 at 797 days without a lost time accident. “While we are proud […]