The 2015 Health, Safety, Environment and Community Awards dinner was an opportunity to acknowledge some of the best new examples of leading practices and systems from across NSW, that help ensure the industry retains its world leading position, according to NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee.
“These awards encourage NSW miners to identify where health, safety and environmental aspects of mining operations can be improved, and then design and implement solutions that can be adopted across the industry more broadly,” he said.
As principal technical services manager at Centennial, Corbett’s role involves: leadership in research and development projects, mentoring of technical services team members in Centennial’s Western Region, management of concept, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, preparation of regional and corporate technical reports, development of strata management systems, JORC competent person Western Region, ACARP Underground Strata Committee member and project mentor, NSW Underground Geotechnical Society (NUGS) Executive Committee member.
Having spent the last seven years in the role of general manager of mines rescue & regulation and compliance, on announcement of his retirement Healey agreed to return in a part-time capacity as a technical advisor with Coal Services.
Coal Services has some crucial projects required to deliver on its 2020 Strategy. It was recognised that Healey could provide invaluable technical guidance, industry knowledge and insight to these projects. He also holds the position of chairman of the standing dust committee.
Newbury won the safety award for the component review of the primary support system at the Clarence colliery.
Clarence underwent a review of components of their primary support system in order to reduce the potential for manual handling injuries sustained during the roof-bolting process.
The initiative reduced injuries, reduces manual handling, and reduces the cycle-time for each bolt installed without compromising strength properties associated with the strata support system.
