Featuring in-depth sessions on Operational Safety,

Proudly presents:
Risk Assessment and Emergency Planning

MINE SAFETY&EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

SUMMIT
Implementing Operational Safety Procedures & Creating a Mine Site Emergency Management Plan
July 26-27, 2011 Pittsburgh, PA

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Mining Safety Expe In-Depth Sessions
• Bob Roscoe, VP Mining • Jeffery Kravitz, Chief, Scientific on Topics Including:
DOE RUN Development, Mine Emergency
• Matthew Pedersen-Howard, Director Operations
of Health & Safety MSHA • E nsuring compliance with safety
RIO TINTO MINERALS • James Southcott, Compliance Manager regulations and legislation
• Diana Ponikvar, Mine Rescue MIDWAY GOLD
Team Coordinator • Steve Wood, Principal Advisor, • Introducing a risk based approach
PEABODY ENERGY RIO TINTO to safety management
• Mike Nestor, Safety Supervisor • Bryan Hoggan, Manager Occupational
CONSOL ENERGY Health and Safety • Providing effective safety
• Kenny Perdue, Director of KEMMERER MINE training methods for new
Operations Safety • Stuart Wilson, Principal Advisor, and existing employees
ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES Emergency Management
NEWMONT •Presenting best practices in contractor
• John Urosek, Chief, Mine
• Perry Whitley, Safety Manager
Emergency Operations
ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES
safety management
MSHA
• Patrick James, Principal Adviser - • Johnny Greene, Executive Director • Instilling a safety culture into a
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Contractor Management
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generation of new workers
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RIO TINTO • Karonica Brie, Safety Manager
• Larry Grayson, Professor of DOE RUN
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MOROBE MININ
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 MINE SAFETY&EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Who will you meet
SUMMIT
• VP of Health and Safety

Dear Safety Manager, • Safety Managers

t successful Mine Safety and Emergency
Over the last 5 years IQPC has run the mos •Emergency Management
of miners is of paramount importance
Management Summits in Australia. Safety
bringing all the lessons learned and best Coordinators
globally, and due to that success, we are
IQPC is proud to present the inaugural Mine
practices to the North American market.
Safety & Emergency Management Summit. • Mine Rescue Managers
of the workers on your mine site.
Nothing is more important than the safety
implications of poor safety management • Emergency Response
The high risk nature of mining means the
skilled and experienced workers retire from
are massive. However as a generation of Coordinators
dard at your mine site will require extra
the workforce maintaining a high safety stan
training and diligence.
e,
• OH&S Managers
ty experts with specific practical knowledg
This is your best opportunity to have safe
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share their stories, learning and initiatives • Compliance Managers
tions and panel discussions, giving you
The conference will be split into presenta
specific benchmarking and networking oppo
rtunities. • Safety Coordinators
I look forward to meeting you in July. • Safety Superintendent
Kind regards,
• Training Managers
Emil shteinberg P.S: Visit the online
Portfolio Manager, Mining IQ • Mine Manager
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About the Organizer

It’s pleasing to note that this conference has attracted the serious industry
professionals and I am looking forward to full engagement with the audience. Mining IQ, a division of
IQPC, is a mining guide and
Neville Rockhouse, Safety and Training Manager
PIKE RIVER COAL LTD mining learning portal and an
international online community focusing on providing
As an emergency response coordinator, information obtained has been mining professionals with mining industry knowledge,
valuable in assisting me to be able to perform my role better. I have a better information and an online networking and communication
understanding of processors and systems that I can implement back on site. platform.
Warren Clark, Emergency Response Coordinator
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Main Summit Day One: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
8:30 Registration and Coffee
9:00 Welcoming Remarks from the Chair
9:15 New Concepts in Mine Site Health and Safety in the USA
• Providing insightful knowledge on mine site health and
safety regulations in the USA
• Understanding the challenges currently faced by mine
sites in the USA
• Promoting improved safety and health conditions
around the nation
• Identifying what mine sites can do to improve their
safety management
• Reviewing lessons learnt: How to avoid unsafe situations
Bob Roscoe, VP Mining
DOE RUN
10:00 Taking a People First Safety Approach and Implementing
Preventative Safety Measures
• Identifying which training areas will be effective in building
your employees’ skills
• Educating employees on how to work safely on site
• Managing training for employees with different skill
safety levels
• Providing a commonly accepted management structure
that results in better decisions and more effective use of
available resources
Matthew Pedersen-Howard, Director of Health & Safety
RIO TINTO MINERALS
10:45 Morning Networking Break
11:30 Ensuring Exploration Safety and Minimizing
Environmental Impact
• Identifying all the risks present on your mine site
• Determining how safe your mine site needs to be
• Implementing risk management safety policies
James Southcott, Compliance Manager
MIDWAY GOLD
12:15 Ensuring All Coal Miners Are Provided With a Safe
Working Environment
• Providing effective education and training to coal miners to
foster safe work practices
• Ensuring that statutes and regulations regarding coal
mining are enforced fairly and consistently
• Discussing the investigation of accidents and knowing how
best to avoid potential risks
Johnny Greene, Executive Director
OFFICE OF MINE SAFETY AND LICENSING
1:00 Networking Luncheon
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2:00 Mitigating Risk through Effective Evaluation Systems
and Operational Planning
• Looking at the issues of competency vs. compliance
• Identifying the motives that drive your management systems
which are integral in predicting the success of your plans
• Discussing risk and how to minimize it, taking a 360o view
of your mine site and mitigate risk by installing
preventative measures
• Assessing the inherent risk in your mine site unique to
your conditions
• Evolving evaluative frameworks that address the current
and consistent issues surrounding risk mitigation
Mike Lovejoy, District Safety Manager
KIEWET
 Jeffery Kravitz, Chief, Scientific Development, Mine
Emergency Operations
MSHA
2:45 Applying Risk Assessment Methods to Safety Practices
in Mining
• Applying the new mine safety standards to operations
• Developing a risk based to approach to mining safety
• Promoting a risk adverse attitude within your mine site
• Implementing appropriate strategies to control risk
Larry Grayson, Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
3:30 Afternoon Networking Break
4:00 Identifying Risk: Crisis-Proof Your Emergency
Management Plan
• Identifying and assessing risks
• Risk management strategies and solutions
• Minimizing the probability of the risk
• Minimizing the potential impact of the risk
• Developing an emergency management plan that caters
for your risks
Perry Whitley, Safety Manager
ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES
Bryan Hoggan, Manager Occupational Health and Safety
KEMMERER MINE
4:45 Control and Coordination of Emergency Incidents for
Site Managers
• Managing responsibilities in relation to on-site incidents:
Knowing when to escalate an incident to the Crisis
Management Team
• Controlling and coordinating on-site emergency incidents by
utilizing available equipment and resources
• Reviewing the importance of conducting realistic evacuation
drills in an underground mine environment: Employee
perceptions to underground emergency incidents
Diana Ponikvar, Mine Rescue Team Coordinator
PEABODY ENERGY
Karonica Brie, Safety Manager
DOE RUN
5:30 End of Day One
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 Main Summit Day Two: Wednesday, July, 27 2011
8:30 Registration and Coffee
9:00 Highlighting the Importance of a Relevant Mine Site
Emergency Plan: Auditing and Updating Your Plan
• Identifying dated and inefficient methods and strategies in
your emergency plan
• Finding and developing new practices and procedures
• Educating staff on updates to your mine site emergency
management procedures
• Featuring best methods and frequencies to reviewing and
updating your procedures
Stuart Wilson, Principal Advisor, Emergency Management
NEWMONT
9:45 Dynamic Risk Assessment – Managing Risk on the Run
• Understanding why we make mistakes as part of our
decision making process
• Understanding the importance intuition plays in the process
• Identifying factors that increase effectiveness of risk decision
making
• Gaining an understanding of the ambiguity of ‘acceptable risk’
Mike Nestor, Safety Supervisor
CONSOL ENERGY
John Urosek, Chief; Mine Emergency Operations
MSHA
10:30 Morning Networking Break
11:15 Creating an Emergency Response Management System
that Caters for Different Levels of Emergencies
• Being prepared for different levels of emergencies is
important in your emergency management planning.
• Responding to the scale, degree and severity of the
emergency is important to the overall running of the company
• Identifying the individuals who are required for the degree
and type of emergency
• Treating the emergency with response procedures that are
suitable for level of emergency
• Knowing when to escalate the level of emergency response
Jeffery Kravitz, Chief, Scientific Development, Mine
Emergency Operations
MSHA
Mike Lovejoy, District Safety Manager
KIEWET
12:00 Ensuring Continuous Improvement of Health Safety
Systems in Mining
•O utlining how to develop and implement health and
safety systems
• Discussing how to incorporate safety onto the overall
strategy of the business
• Highlighting the importance of having a leadership program
and engaging with all stakeholders
• Emphasizing the various risk frameworks
Patrick James, Principal Adviser, Contractor Management
& Sustainable Safety
RIO TINTO
Steve Wood, Principal Advisor
RIO TINTO
12:45 Networking Luncheon
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1:45 Implementing a Recovery Strategy to Minimize Loss
• Developing a strong recovery strategy that takes into
account crisis counselling, disaster assistance and
reconstruction
• Management Response - what happens following an
incident report
• Protecting your organization – strategies for safety
compliance and business benefits
Bryan Hoggan, Manager Occupational Health and Safety
KEMMERER MINE
Kenny Perdue, Director of Operations Safety
ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES
2:30 Training an Evolving Emergency Management Workforce
• Developing a plan to address the issues in
recruitment strategies
• Assessing the emergency response community in relation
to the issue of ageing and of turnover trends
• Developing a method to capture the experience and
knowledge before it is lost
• Putting practice into action – drills and exercises to
develop experience and expertise
Perry Whitley, Safety Manager
ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES
John Urosek, Chief; Mine Emergency Operations
MSHA
3:15 Afternoon Networking Break
3:45 Safety Training for New Employees
• Coordinating efforts to enhance the development of
approval of mine safety technology
• Ensuring instructors have current information to keep
knowledge and skills up to date
• Conducting simulated activities that include all stakeholders
that would be involved in an emergency
• Monitoring training and recommending corrective measures
as necessary
Karonica Brie, Safety Manager
DOE RUN
Mike Nestor, Safety Supervisor
CONSOL ENERGY
4:30 Emergency Management – Coaching and Assessing
Performance
• Implementing leading edge emergency management and
response strategies
• Developing a program which emphasizes leadership and
expertise in emergency management and planning
• Devising a system of coaching to promote education and
awareness in the workforce
• Implementing a mines rescue approach
Kenny Perdue, Director of Operations Safety
ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES
Steve Wood, Principal Advisor
RIO TINTO
5:15 End of Summit
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July 26-27, 2011 Pittsburgh, PA

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