19th October 2020 — Caroline Carter, RSPH (as published on Creamer Media’s Engineering News)

While we have seen news about cabinless, emissionless underground vehicles and the technological progress is astounding, we are some years away from this becoming the norm. In the interim, we need to safeguard human beings – the life-blood of all mines.Given that the landscape of health and safety in general has been in the spotlight and efforts have been substantially intensified, surely it would make sense to revamp the entire health and safety strategy to ensure longevity of the process and sustained benefits to both the workers and the mines long-term?

As mineworkers have returned to work in full force, there is a substantial amount of anxiety around Health and Safety measures being adhered to.