Working Safely
The importance of reporting on High Potential Incidents in the Queensland Mining and Quarry sectors Excerpt from the Queensland Mines and Quarries Safety Performance and Health Report 2019-2020, publication by Resources Safety and Health Queensland. © State of Queensland, 2020
Lifting Matters is all about bringing safety to the forefront of the conversation and making it accessible to everyone. The crane industry can learn from a variety of other sectors with similar style operations and we are always on the lookout for safe practices to share. This article examines a recent yearly report publication on how HPI’s have been used in the Mining and Quarry industries to track, report and act on to improve future safety outcomes.
A high potential incident (HPI) is an event, or a series of events, that causes or has the potential to cause a significant adverse effect on the safety or health of a person. It remains the case that the vast majority (96 percent in 2019-20) of HPIs do not involve injury to a person.
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ISSUE Q2 2021
The inspectorate considers HPIs to be an important lead indicator for measuring the effectiveness of safety and health systems. Dr Sean Brady is a forensic engineer who specialises in the investigation of incidents, defects and failures in the mining and construction sectors, who recently advised
