Safety
“I’ve heard company after company preach safety and employees first, but have never seen it followed through. To be honest, it feels pretty weird in the best way to actually be told money isn’t an issue, time isn’t an issue, our people are worth it, our culture is worth it.” — Grant Perry
How do we go above the standard?
The Turner Safety Program
Mikel Bowman
Safety Citations
Why in the world would we publish our safety citations? Because this sort of approach only makes us a better company. By being transparent and honest with ourselves and our customers forces us to stay accountable to our ideology and way of doing business. Being honest and open is the best way. It’s the Turner way.
| Citation | Description | Action Taken |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.14100, Safety defects; examination, correction, and records | A back up camera on a haul truck was not working, and in the pre-shift the issue was not being documented. MSHA came that day and performed an audit and found the problem. | Instead of being mad at MSHA for doing their job, we decided to do several things. 1. Look deeper into the citation and strive to find out why we were operating a haul truck with a faulty camera. 2. Educate further our boots on the ground on proper pre-shift examinations and lock out tag out procedures 3. Better communicate to our equipment rental vendors the importance of our requests when it comes to faulty equipment and preventive maintenance. |
Citation
30 CFR 56.14100, Safety defects; examination, correction, and records
Description
A back up camera on a haul truck was not working, and in the pre-shift the issue was not being documented. MSHA came that day and performed an audit and found the problem.
Action Taken
Instead of being mad at MSHA for doing their job, we decided to do several things.
1. Look deeper into the citation and strive to find out why we were operating a haul truck with a faulty camera.
2. Educate further our boots on the ground on proper pre-shift examinations and lock out tag out procedures
3. Better communicate to our equipment rental vendors the importance of our requests when it comes to faulty equipment and preventive maintenance.
In mining, breaking production records is always a great feeling and accomplishment that we often strive for! But no production number could ever give me the sense of pride and accomplishment equal to when a crew of this size and scale produces a ZERO citation MSHA inspection. Hats off to every member of this almost 40 person and 30+ piece of equipment Turner Mining Group crew that continues to do things the right way and put safety first!
– Matt McClelland