The CORESafety® Safety and Health Management System (SHMS) involves 20 modules with suggested timelines for completion. The modules and timelines were developed by mine safety professionals specifically for U.S. mining as a pathway to achieve zero fatalities and a 50 percent reduction in the injury rate within five years (0:50:5). While CORESafety provides a common roadmap and a common language to achieve 0:50:5, it does not specify the details of each company’s system. Rather, company systems should be designed to be functionally equivalent to the CORESafety HSMS taking into consideration each company’s unique operations, management structure and culture.
CORESafety Framework System
DEC 2012
DEC 2013
DEC 2014
Leadership Development
Projected Implementation Date:Identifying and developing employees in leadership positions or with leadership potential who can:
- Influence safety and health performance improvement.
- Positively and knowingly affect safety culture.
- Help the organization achieve the 0:50:5 objective.
Responsibility & Accountability
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Setting appropriate safety and health goals.
- Assuring all employees understand their safety and health management roles and responsibilities.
- Providing sufficient resources.
- Employing appropriate tools to measure and review for continuous improvement.
- Applying positive and negative consequences relative to performance against responsibilities.
Management System Coordination
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Assigning responsibility for development and management of the CORESafety safety and health management system (System Leader).
- Integrating CORESafety into other company systems such as mine planning, operations, maintenance, contract management, human resources, information technology and others.
Fatality Prevention/Risk Mgmt.
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Identifying and reviewing all safety and health hazards.
- Assessing and prioritizing risks associated with those hazards, emphasizing risks that could have catastrophic, including fatal, consequences.
- Applying controls systematically.
- Verifying controls remain effective over time.
Training & Competence
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Assessing training needs based on level, knowledge and skills required for each task.
- Ensuring workers know how to do their jobs.
- Ensuring workers know the hazards and risks of their assigned tasks.
- Verifying worker competency through demonstrations.
Emergency Planning & Response
Projected Implementation Date:Planning for and responding appropriately to emergency and crisis situations through emergency prevention and action plans that include:
- Resource allocation.
- Training.
- Emergency response communications and coordination.
- Recovery.
Culture Enhancement
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Identifying desired safety culture characteristics.
- Assessing strengths and weaknesses.
- Developing and implementing a culture improvement plan.
Collaboration & Communication
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Fostering effective two-way communication and involvement among all employees in safety and health decision making and problem solving.
- Ensuring that all relevant safety and health information is shared through open, transparent and frequent communications.
Reinforcement & Recognition
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Using formal and informal positive feedback and rewards.
- Recognizing and reinforcing behaviors and actions that contribute to good health and safety performance.
Resources & Planning
Projected Implementation Date:Managing and aligning human resource activities to achieve the 0:50:5 objective through:
- Hiring standards.
- Conditions of employment.
- Employee assimilation.
- Collective bargaining agreements.
- Succession planning.
- Progressive discipline policy.
Change Management
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Identifying changes in the organization and at the operation that may introduce new risk or increase unacceptable risk by proactively looking for and controlling change at every level of the organization and across functional areas, including emergency management.
Work Procedures & Permits
Projected Implementation Date:Integrating safety and health into operations and maintenance by:
- Organizing and conducting work in a predictable manner.
- Specifying ways to carry out an activity or process.
- Using more controlled procedures for those activities or processes that are high risk or require a permit.
Occupational Health
Projected Implementation Date:Treating health on par with safety by:
- Anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling occupational health hazards leading to illness.
- Applying appropriate new technologies, with an emphasis on exposure assessment and medical surveillance.
Incident Reporting & Investigation
Projected Implementation Date:Minimizing unsafe behavior by:
- Educating all employees on the causes of safe and unsafe behavior.
- Developing an observation and feedback process.
- Emphasizing how to control behavior and intervene with co-workers.
Behavior Optimization
Projected Implementation Date:Minimizing unsafe behavior by:
- Educating all employees on the causes of safe and unsafe behavior.
- Developing an observation and feedback process.
- Emphasizing how to control behavior and intervene with co-workers.
Safety & Health Management Assurance
Projected Implementation Date:
This module includes:
- Establishing a procedure to assess compliance with applicable legal requirements.
- Maintaining current information.
- Developing an improvement cycle that is integrated with the company's safety and health management system.
Assurance
Projected Implementation Date:This module includes:
- Implementing a process to assure internal and external stakeholders of the adequate structure, fitness and effectiveness of the safety and health management system.
- Ensuring management using assurance information to determine how to improve the safety and health management system.
- Providing for corrective action and continual improvement based on senior management direction.
Documentation & Information Management
Projected Implementation Date:This module includes:
- Collecting appropriate safety and health data for leading and lagging performance metrics.
- Establishing and maintaining appropriate safety and health management records.
Engineering & Construction
Projected Implementation Date:This module includes:
- Designing, procuring, constructing and commissioning new mines, facilities and modifications to existing facilities to promote good safety and health performance throughout the operational life of the facility.
- Integrating the "hierarchy of controls" and good design principles to minimize new mine, facility or modification risk to the lowest level reasonably achievable.
Contractor Management & Purchasing
Projected Implementation Date:This module includes:
- Ensuring all company-sponsored project proposals include safety and health management criteria or requirements.
- Pre-screening contractors for acceptable safety and health management experience, qualifications and procedures.
- Ensuring all contractors and third parties are aware of your organization's safety and health management requirements and expectations.
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