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ISSUE 27 - JULY 2018 Consider it done. INSIDE Site Updates Do you fear your own body? 50 YEARS OF MINING CONTRACTING Redpath Leading Young Professional Development Opportunities in Mining Mines Rescue in Redpath Supporting the Community redpathmining.com 1 MANAGING DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Table of Contents “BE DILIGENT IN MAINTAINING AN Managing Director’s Message 02 INCREASED SAFETY FOCUS AND REMEMBER SAFETY - Site Updates FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS.” Cannington 03 George Fisher 04 We are half way through 2018 and on reflection; the business has notably seen various achievements throughout this MICO 05 period. Lady Loretta 06 As always, safety remains our strong focus for the remainder Olympic Dam 07 of 2018. As time continues to accelerate it is increasingly Narrabri 08 essential to remember that your safety is important, remain Raiseboring diligent not complacent. We want everyone to get home safely 09 and as the business continues to grow our slogan Safety - First, Last and Always should remain paramount. HR Report 10 A summary of our notable achievements in safety Staff Profiles 12 performance for 2018 are as follows: • Cannington ROM - 2037 days TRI free Safety Report 13 • Cannington U/G - 3728 days LTI free • George Fisher - 1287 days LTI free Do you fear your own body? 14 • Plant Yard - 1057 days TRI free and 4821 days LTI free • Olympic Dam - 907 days LTI free Achievement & Recognition Program 16 • Narrabri Vent Shaft - 365 days TRI free • Redpath Australia - 1221 days LTI free Redpath Safety Innovator 17 New system evolution and implementation is a key component for our technology influenced society and likewise Australia Celebrates 50 years of 18 is very important to our business. In the first half of 2018, Mining Contracting we officially went live with our JDE Inventory module. This implementation has aligned our inventory and procurement Redpath leading Young Professional 21 systems into one transparent method. Stage two (to be Development Opportunities in Mining rolled out before the end of 2018) will move us into a more efficient mobile platform, whereby tablets will give us a “Live” approach to inventory stock counting and cost control. Mines Rescue in Redpath 22 On the training front our E-leaning Online Induction and Supporting the Community 23 Training Program has continued to be a success and assisted in the smooth mobilisation at Lady Loretta. This system, coupled with our Pathways to Excellence Courses, is providing the platform for the future of training at Redpath. Over the last six months in our Tendering and Business Development areas, we have been successful in winning new work and extending existing contracts in the following FRONT locations; COVER: • Telfer Raiseboring - Telfer, WA Milestone of • Mt Rawdon Cablebolting - North Queensland the first ore crushed at • Cannington (Option extension) - Queensland Lady Loretta. In conclusion, I would like to take this time to remind everyone that safety is a key ingredient to the success of our business. Be diligent in maintaining an increased safety focus and remember Safety – First, Last and Always. Gavin Ramage Managing Director 2 SITE UPDATES An insight into our various projects throughout Australia. CANNINGTON, MOUNT ISA, QUEENSLAND By: Matt Robson, Project Manager UNDERGROUND: benchmark of 441m3. This is a great additional interactions and increased It has been a big first few months effort, well done and thanks to those production demands while upholding getting up to speed with the myriad involved. their high safety standard. With the of activities that Redpath is involved underground crushing and hoist here at Cannington. The team has It has been great to have joined the systems recommissioned, Redpath has continued its good run from the start safety focused and collaborative now overseen the successful close out of the new year by backing up their relationship that South32 and Redpath of the Terex J-1175 jaw crusher hire strong physical performances month have established. This has resulted in which was brought onto site to cater for on month, and consistently driving consistently meeting and exceeding the the additional crushing demands during improvements through the operational ever increasing operational demands of the period. and maintenance teams. the Cannington operation. I’m looking forward to continuously improving upon We have seen the onboarding of four Safety has continued to be our number Redpath’s standing at Cannington additional Minor Earthworks operators one priority and has been maintained while I try to fill Mitch’s boots. Thanks to undertake the construction of as the top driver behind everything again for your patience and to all those South32’s 3MW Solar Farm Project. we do. This quarter has seen the that have made me feel welcomed into The Redpath operators have been successful and timely closeout the team. busily clearing and preparing the of a return to work program for a 6ha site for the arrival of 7,200 solar development crewman who suffered an ROM AND MINOR EARTH WORKS: panels which once installed will be MTI in February. This is testament to Redpath has continued to deliver high the 2nd largest solar farm directly the quality of offsite support and to the quality results during the first quarter linked to a remote mining operation in high value we place upon our people. through the efforts of the Cannington Australia. Upon completion, the solar ROM and Minor Earth Works teams. farm will have the ability to generate With the number of employees pushing 6,500MWh per year. Even though over the 120 mark it’s great to see The Cannington ROM team has now the scope falls outside of our core Redpath’s philosophy of “Safety – achieved a significant milestone business, it is a fantastic example of First, Last and Always” championed by surpassing 2,000 consecutive Redpath’s “Consider it done” attitude across all levels of the Cannington recordable injury free work days. The being applied. It is great to be involved operation. The challenge is now to team has continued to set the standard, in the positive steps towards a more maintain the pace while working safely both within Redpath and the across sustainable resources industry. and productively under a well proven the industry. South32 and Redpath are operational framework. now looking forward to championing While there will no doubt be challenges the achievement and celebrating with in the future I am looking forward to We’ve recently focused on developing all those involved. Well done to those continuing the good work and great and solidifying the maintenance who have consistently demonstrated a safety focus that has been established team which has already led to lifts strong safety focus since the contract at the Cannington Mine. Once again, in equipment performance and commencement in 2012. thank you all for the support and workshop efficiencies. Main items to guidance during the handover period. note here has been the recruitment Further to the benchmark safety of Andy Leask as the Maintenance performance of the ROM operators, Superintendent, and Chris Dunnell Redpath has been heavily involved who will be undertaking a maintenance with the management of environmental planner role via the Redpath controls around the ROM operations, Graduate Program. Chris has a strong particularly in the area of dust mechanical engineering background, minimisation. We have now seen and has previously been involved with the completion of the ROM sprinkler large scale open cut operations and system and will have the refinement civil tunnelling projects. In May we saw of timing automation incorporated into the Redpath Pathways to Excellence its design in the coming weeks. This training rolled out to our maintenance has been a great initiative lead by the managers, planners and leading Redpath operators. hands. A major transition phase has now We recently saw the toppling of come to a close with the new two Cannington records; 91.8m3 of underground crusher being completed shotcrete applied in 24hrs, over the and commissioned earlier this year. old benchmark of 84m3, and 487m3 of The ROM haulage and crushing shotcrete applied for the week, over the teams successfully navigated the 3 GEORGE FISHER, MOUNT ISA, QUEENSLAND By: Alex Wheeler, Project Manager Where has the time gone? It seems Superintendent who brings with through the Loretta mobilisation, as like only yesterday that I was sitting him a wealth of experience from mentioned it hasn’t been done before on a beach at the Gold Coast cablebolting to general mining. Lastly and they have delivered us a quality celebrating the New Year, and now Daniel Franceschi as Maintenance piece of machinery. here I am onto article number 2 for Supervisor, transferring from the July Edition! Golden Grove brings with him the This year George Fisher has had highly sought after Jacon Combo a bit of a face lift, along with the 2018 at George Fisher has come experience. Unfortunately while we new batch plant we also introduced with it’s own fresh set of new welcome some, we also have said some new gear to the fleet including; opportunities and challenges which goodbye to others, Ross Edmonds Sandvik Cablebolter, Jacon we have had to navigate our way who has been at George Fisher for Combo and a couple light vehicles. through. Recruitment was busy at the three years has accepted a role This coupled with our continual beginning of 2018 with a major staff at Lady Loretta. Ross has done a commitment to service and quality restructure as well as welcoming a fantastic job setting us up for a long is what assists us in building a new group of mining trainee’s and term stay here at George Fisher. presence on site for years to come. experienced operators. We have Jena Morrison, who also accepted commissioned new drills, spray rigs, a role at Loretta and lastly our Our graduates have moved from light vehicles and service vehicles Maintenance Supervisor Kirby Marr.