No silver bullet for underlying safety issues, Minesafe hears

A veteran Australian mine safety boss says flattening of the country’s mining safety performance curve shows the next phase of sustained improvement is “difficult” and the industry will need to dig deeper into harder-to-measure underlying contributors to injuries and deaths. Technology won’t be a silver bullet, he told the Minesafe International Conference 2022 in Perth.

“The mining industry tends to want the magical solution,” professor David Cliff said at the event.