Mineral Mines and Quarries (MMQ) Reporting Classes for Occupational Hygiene Data

Mineral Mines and Quarries (MMQ) reporting classes for occupational hygiene data

Table 1 – Open cut/surface operations reporting classes (including overburden removal, mining and quarrying activities)

Activity DNRME reporting classes Primary task descriptions Code Development of the Surface/development/dozer Dozer operations including pushing QMQ OC001 area prior to and raking of vegetation and production mining or overburden quarrying Surface/development/scraper Single or tandem scraper QMQ OC002 operations for removal/ relocation of overburden or waste material Surface/development/excavator Excavator operations -including QMQ OC003 preparation of the area, loading trucks Surface/development/rubber tyred Loader operations - either solitary QMQ OC004 loader or in conjunction with trucks Surface/development/truck Truck haulage of waste or QMQ OC005 overburden material Surface/development/blasting/drill Drill and blast operations in mine QMQ OC006 development - drilling of blast pattern only Surface/development/blasting/charge Drill and blast operations, including QMQ OC007 up charge up, firing the shot, blast clearance, management of exclusion zone, and other operations associated with drill and blast Production - extraction Surface/production/excavator Excavator operations - including QMQ OC008 of target/ore or rock loading trucks and stone cutting Surface/production/rubber tyred Loader operations - either solitary QMQ OC009 loader or with trucks Surface/production/truck Haulage by truck QMQ OC010 Surface/production/train Haulage by train QMQ OC011 Routine services to Surface/services/refuel Refuelling and servicing of mobile QMQ OC012 maintain the area and plant in the mining areas mobile plant Surface/services/water cart Water cart or truck - dust QMQ OC013 suppression and material management Surface/services/road maintenance Graders or scrapers in maintaining QMQ OC014 the internal travel ways Technical/professional Surface/technical/supervisor Supervisor for the site-not operating QMQ OC015 advisors including plant science and QMQ OC016 engineering roles Surface/technical/technical Technical/professional advisors including geologists, metallurgist, engineers, chemist, health and safety specialist and similar Surface not otherwise Surface/not otherwise classified Any other reporting classes not QMQ OC017 classified accounted for in surface operations

Table 2 – Underground operations reporting classes (including development, mining, remediation works and closure activities)

Activity DNRME reporting classes Primary task descriptions Code Development activities in Drilling activities including QMQ UG018 an underground mine hand held, air leg or rock Underground/development/drill/ machine drills – specifically long hole long hole drilling including pilot hole drilling activities Drilling activities including QMQ UG019 hand held, air leg or rock Underground/development/drill/ machine drills – specifically shaft sinking shaft sinking or raised bore drilling either underground or on the surface Drilling activities – specifically QMQ UG020 Underground/development/drill/ rock machine drilling including jumbo blast pattern drilling, meshing and cable bolting Underground/development/ Charge up, firing shot and post QMQ UG021 charge up blast clearance activities Ground control of the Spraying of shotcrete or QMQ UG022 underground mine Underground/ground fibrecrete - including the control/shotcrete agitator operator and spray mesh operator Underground/ground control/ Strata stabilisation using cable QMQ UG023 strata stabilisation bolting or injection Production activities - Bogging or loading of ore to QMQ UG024 Underground/production/loader extraction of target or rock truck, ore pass or crusher Haulage of material to QMQ UG025 Underground/production/truck underground stockpile or to surface run of mine (ROM) Underground/production/ring firer Production Shot firer QMQ UG026 Support of underground Refuelling or resupply QMQ UG027 Underground/services/refuel operations underground workers or plant Road watering, grading and QMQ UG028 Underground/services/water cart travel-ways maintenance Installation or repair of QMQ UG029 underground services including air and water lines, ventilation (ducting or Underground/services/installation secondary vent fans), undertaking mechanical repairs and vehicle servicing underground, electrical maintenance Underground not Underground/not otherwise Any other reporting classes not QMQ UG030 otherwise classified classified accounted for in underground operations

Mineral mines and quarries (MMQ) reporting classes for occupational hygiene data – August 2018 2 Table 3 – Processing reporting classes (including mined or quarried material to material for removal from the mine site - including tailings)

Activity DNRME reporting classes Primary task descriptions Code Crushing operation Processing/crushing Crushing operation including grizzly, QMQ P 031 plate crusher, cone crusher, SAG or ball mills) regardless of the presence of water or other media Removal of product Export/bagging Bagging QMQ P 032 from site – Export/truck-loading Truck load QMQ P 033 including handling Export/train-loading Train load QMQ P 034 material from Export/ship loading Ship load QMQ P 035 process plant to stockpile area, stockpile management and loading material onto transport Screening or Processing/dry processing/screening Mechanical screening - may use dust QMQ P 036 classification – dry suppression such as water or other media - including operation and routine inspection of screening, replacement of screens if conducted by operator/maintainers Shaping or cutting material/ore QMQ P 037 including sandstone operators, and Processing/dry processing/cutting any masonry works excludes cone crushers Size selection of material other than QMQ P 038 Processing/dry screening (dry cyclone - includes processing/classification operation and routine inspection) Screening or Processing/wet processing/solvent Solvent extraction QMQ P 039 classification - wet extraction Processing/wet processing/electro Electro-winning QMQ P 040 winning Processing/wet processing/carbon-in Carbon-in-pulp QMQ P 041 pulp Processing/wet processing/flotation Flotation QMQ P 042 Processing/wet processing/heap leach Heap leach QMQ P 043 Processing/wet processing/screening Screening QMQ P 044 Processing/wet processing/cutting Cutting QMQ P 045 Removal of water Removal of water from concentrate: QMQ P 046 from concentrate pressure or plate filters, dryers and Processing/dewatering spray dryer (not including tailing facility evaporators)

Technical advisors Processing/technical/science and Technical advisors including science QMQ P 048 engineering and engineering roles-geologists, metallurgist, engineers, chemist and similar Processing/technical/laboratory/sampl Sample prep QMQ P 049 e prep Processing/technical/laboratory/analyst Analyst QMQ P 050 Processing not Processing/not otherwise classified Any other reporting classes not QMQ P 051 otherwise classified accounted for in processing

Mineral mines and quarries (MMQ) reporting classes for occupational hygiene data – August 2018 3 Table 4 – MMQ – support of mining process reporting classes

Activity DNRME reporting classes Primary task descriptions Code Office based roles Support/administration Office based roles including QMQ S 052 administration officers, weighbridge operator Support/technical/office Surface cleaners. QMQ S 053 Support/technical/field Stores, management, QMQ S 054 Exploration Support/resource Drilling to determine mineral reserve QMQ S 055 definition/surface including greenfield and brown field rig/reverse circulation exploration and in-field mapping Support/resource Drilling to determine mineral reserve QMQ S 056 definition/surface including greenfield and brown field rig/diamond exploration and in-field mapping Support/resource Drilling to determine mineral reserve QMQ S 057 definition/underground rig including greenfield and brown field exploration and in-field mapping Remediation/maintenance of Support/maintenance/ Remediation/maintenance of QMQ S 058 mechanical and electrical mobile plant/workshop mechanical and electrical equipment equipment Support/maintenance/ Remediation/maintenance of QMQ S 059 mobile plant/breakdown mechanical and electrical equipment including preventative and breakdown response for mobile plant Support/maintenance/fixed Fixed plant QMQ S 060 plant Support/maintenance/ Electrical plant, including electrician, QMQ S 061 electrical instrument tech, electrical engineer Support/maintenance/ Boiler maker QMQ S 062 boilermaker Support/maintenance/ Welder / workshop QMQ S 063 welder/workshop Support/maintenance/ Welder / field QMQ S 064 welder/field Supply and stores function Supply and stores function - including QMQ S 065 Support/logistics inward transport, internal stock movements and warehousing Cleaning activities of offices Cleaning activities of offices and QMQ S 066 and control rooms not plant Support/cleaners control rooms not plant area area On-site laundry On-site laundry of work clothes QMQ S 067 Support/laundry including handling and consignment of clothing to off-site laundry Construction Support/construction/ Construction of building and offices QMQ S 068 buildings including building maintenance other than electrical works Support/construction/plant Construction of plant QMQ S 069 Demolition Support/demolition Demolition of building, offices or QMQ S 070 other structure including removal of asbestos containing materials (ACM) Back fill of surface and Support/fill/backfill Back fill of surface and underground QMQ S 071 underground voids and voids and excavations excavations excluding Support/fill/paste fill Back fill paste production QMQ S 072 loading material into ore- passes Support of mining process Support/not otherwise Any other reporting classes not QMQ S 073 not otherwise classified classified accounted for in support of mining process

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