The Emergency Response and Rescue Management in Mining event aims to provide the mining community with practical presentations on improving preparedness and responsiveness for mining site emergencies including those triggered by natural disasters or extreme weather. The forum will draw on leading and award winning case presentations from the mining industry, demonstrating how to increase site resilience to protect people and assets, effectively reduce incident management, and improve leadership, coordination and control during emergencies. Perth is hosting our Emergency Response and Rescue Management in Mining Conference which features exemplary case studies from leading underground and surface mines located within WA. Feedback from delegates who have attended our Resources Workforce and Safety Events and recent mining industry research has requested the event be in Perth to cover emergency issues unique to WA mines. The timing of the event coincides with the need for the mining industry to revise their emergency management plans to ensure they are complying with new national and specifically WA state safety and hazard management harmonization requirements. Miners grappling with improving site resilience in remote areas with an unprecedented increase in natural disasters will value sharing practical information with industry fellows who rarely have the opportunity to get together in a pivotal forum.
PART 1
Business Resilience and Recovery programs – Rio Tinto Iron Ore case Study
Understanding the need for change
Business Resilience and Recovery Program Implementation – challenges and successes
Program maintenance
Determining your requirements from the ground up
Assessing emergency response capabilities
Reviewing emergency related risks
Medical and emergency response requirements
Security, nusiness continuity and crisis management requirements
Reviewing catastrophic risks and their relationship to resilience
Managing grouwth and expanding response requriements
Integrating plans with third paries, contractors and su-contractors
Getting the framework right
Reviewing preparedness from the site to the boardroom
Integrating the business framework: medical, security, travel risk, emergency response, risk, business continuity and crisis management into an organisation-wide framework
Preparing business resilience plans
Validating your plans
Focus on Business Continuity Management
Business Impact Assessment – the cornerstone of any business continuity program
Creating a business continuity plan
Including business continuity considerations in training and exercises
Perfecting practice – optimising your time and effort for maximum realism and quality return from training and exercises
Setting the objectives
Engaging the right stakeholders
Establishing a scenario
Delivery methods
Debriefing, reporting and action tracking
PART 2
Bringing it all together – examples from recent events such as the Sundance Aircrash, Queensland Floods, Cyclones Yasi and Lua
Rapid activation
Decision making in a high stress, information poor environment
Families first
Media management
Challenges and successes in emergency management
Vincent Connelly, Principal Consultant WA,DYNAMIQ Vincent Connelly has extensive experience in crisis, risk and business continuity management across a range of sectors. He has closely worked with Rio Tino Iron Ore implementing their business reilisnce and recovery programas well as delivering management testing exercises to Chevron, BHP Billiton and Exxon Mobil.
Grant Chisnall, Director & Vincent Connelly, Principal Consultant WA,DYNAMIQ Grant Chisnall has a comprehensive background in business resilience, business continuity management, crisis and emergency management, defence and consulting to the government, finance and resources sectors.
