Safety
At Total Drilling Services Pty Ltd we believe all drill and blast activities can be completed incident free. Our operators are trained to the highest standards to ensure that all equipment is operated safely, efficiently and productively.
All Total Drilling Services Pty Ltd equipment is maintained to OEM specification as a minimum to ensure that our safety standards are achieved. Our preventative maintenance program and defect reporting system ensures that all equipment is maintained in a safe working condition and risk of equipment failure is minimised.
The management team at Total Drilling Services is committed to maintaining safety as our number one priority. Our business cannot succeed any other way and we are committed to ensuring every one of our employees not only understand this leading principal, but adopt it as their own number one priority as well. We believe that for this philosophy to succeed, it needs to be developed into a company culture where we all take responsibility for safety and our actions demonstrate our commitment. We do not retain personnel who cannot accept this fundamental building block to our success.
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DEFINITIONS
Lost Time Injury (LTI): A work injury that results in an absence from work for at least one full day or shift any time after the day or shift on which the injury occurred.
Medical Treatment Injury (MTI): A work related injury requiring immediate medical attention.
Serious Injury: A lost time injury that results in the injured person being disabled for a period of 2 weeks or more.
Minor Injury: A lost time injury that results in the injured person being disabled for a period of less than 2 weeks.
Incidence Rate: The number of lost time injuries per 1000 employess for a 12 month period.
Fatal Injury Incidence Rate: The number of fatal injuries per 1000 employees for a 12 month period.
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR): The number of lost time injuries per million man hours worked.
Medical Treatment Injury Frequency Rate (MTIFR): The number of medical treatment injuries per million man hours worked.
Serious Injury Frequency Rate (SIFR): The number of serious injuries per million man hours worked.
Duration Rate: The average number of work days lost per injury.
Injury Index: The number of work days lost per million man hours worked.
Health and Safety Policy
Total Drilling Services Pty Ltd is committed to the implementation of a Safety and Health Policy that provides all employees, contractors and visitors a safe and healthy working environment.
In support of this policy we will abide by all Statutory Acts and Regulations in force, wherever we work, and endeavour to maintain and improve safety and health standards above and beyond these requirements.
Significant elements of this policy are:
- All employees will receive a company induction upon employment
- All equipment will be maintained in a safe operating condition at all times
- Employees are encouraged to be involved in and contribute to safety
- All accidents/incidents will be reported and investigated to prevent reoccurrence
- Employees will be trained in identifying hazards in the workplace
- Employees shall be provided with Personal Protective Equipment and trained in the correct use of such safety equipment
- Safe working procedures will be continuously developed and implemented
- Ongoing training will be provided for all employees
- All employees of Total Drilling Services Pty Ltd must ensure their own safety and health, as well as the safety and health of fellow employees. All unsafe conditions and acts must be reported.
