Playing with fire

Consultancy GPR Dehler conducted a loose experiment on fire awareness with mining professionals at the Diggers and Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie, Australia, in August. Eddy Solbrandt reports on the worrying results

Eddy Solbrandt

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Many mining professionals know less about safety underground than they think they do

Many mining professionals know less about safety underground than they think they do

At our booth, teams from various organisations were invited to participate in a simulated underground mining shift in a virtual world. The teams were taken into a pre-start meeting, given instructions...

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