Providing effective hazard control solutions for the Mining Sector

Statistics reveal that hazardous levels of carcinogenic diesel particulate matter jeopardise the health of 1.2 million Australian workers annually. Our filter kits provide an effective solution that complies with health and safety legislation that requires diesel engine exhaust emissions to be controlled whenever they could create a health hazard.
They are highly effective and remove 99% of particulate from diesel engines, ensuring you don’t have any downtime on site.

Monitoring is critical to projects and has 4 key benefits:

1. Enabling supervisors to fully understand the noise, dust and gas risks associated with their project. By acknowledging the hazards, potential harm can be minimised.
2. Using automated recording equipment can provide insights into exposures and patterns that the human eyes and ears can miss.
3. Monitoring with alarmed/alerting equipment instantly flags when a safe level has been breached, allowing for immediate action to be taken.
4. Assessing and analysing hazards provides important proof of compliance. With a record, you can demonstrate that responsibility for your project has been taken seriously.

RVT Group provide free site surveys where we can visit your project and assess the best solution for your project. We have a variety of centrifugal and axial fans, whether you need a high-pressure or high-volume airflow solution.

Whilst welding is vital in the construction and maintenance of mining, it poses serious challenges that require control. Welding fumes are a mixture of hazardous chemicals produced during welding, and safe work Australia has a workplace exposure limit for welding fumes of 1 mg/m3. Welding fumes can lead to arc-eye, irritation of the throat and lungs, asthma, damage to nervous systems, metal fume fever and even cancer.

Noise control is imperative to comply with health, safety and wellbeing during mining projects. Repeated exposure can lead to permanent hearing loss or damage, debilitating anxiety, depression or fatigue, and the risk of miscommunication on site, which can cause serious safety issues. Effective noise control solutions RVT Group offer includes barriers, quilts, and enclosures.

Exposure to silica dust can be fatal. When materials such as stone, rock, concrete, slate or tile is cut, drilled, sanded, grinded or polished, it creates large quantities of respirable crystalline silica dust particles. Silica dust particles are 100 times smaller than a grain of beach sand and are a common risk for mining activities. Overexposure to silica dust can lead to a life-threatening lung disease known as silicosis.