You may
have asked, is mining a safe place to work? May it be a surface or underground
mine and in my own experience as a miner, the answer is absolutely YES.
Mining
industry is very highly regulated with Mine Safety and Health Administration or
MSHA. This agency, I am telling you guys, is really doing their job and is, I
would say, incorruptible. They can penalize a mine or even an employee big
time, like thousands of dollars if they find unsafe place to work or find
any kinds of hazards. They can also shut a mine down. Seriously. And they
listen, in fact, anyone can call them anonymously to report anything related to
safety in your workplace. I remember years ago, they came to the property to
check out all break rooms because apparently, someone called in and reported a
hazardous break room in one of the departments in the mine.
Round
Mountain Gold Corporation or RMGC provide all the necessary trainings an
employee would ever need and provide any kinds of PPE or Personal Protective
Equipment like gloves, ear plugs, safety glasses, and many other things of
different kinds. You name it, RMGC have it.
We also have different
programs like Critical Risk Management or CRM, GAPS, PRE-SHIFT and many other
good stuff. Work place inspection and pass down reports between incoming and
outgoing Leads is required every shift change. Every department would have
safety meeting every day before the start of the shift. Because SAFETY is the
number one priority in every mine.
I could
write more but I hope this short blog is enough already to feed your curious
minds about the safety in the mining industry.
If you were
interested to work in the mining industry, like let's say, Kinross Gold
Corporation. the owner of RMGC, check this out : Kinross
then click Careers then click location. Kinross gold own several mines in and
outside US.
Thank you
for checking this blog out!
Have
a high vibration day!
Bechay
