SAFETY & HEALTH MANAGEMENT
Ausrocks
has extensive experience on small mines and quarries dealing with all
aspects of safety and health management. From full safety and health
management systems, to operator effectiveness and compliance auditing,
Ausrocks has the capability to help move you into and then beyond
compliance, improving the safety culture of your operation which often
leads to improved productivity.
ESTIMATED
REHABILITATION COST
In
April 2019, Financial Assurance (FA) requirements for resource
activities under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (QLD) were
replaced with the Financial Provisioning Scheme (FPS) under the
Mineral and Energy Resource (Financial Provisioning) Act 2018. This
essentially means that any organisation (or individual) holding a
resource activity Environmental Authority (EA) will have to go through
a new process of determining their rehabilitation liability which
involves an Estimated Rehabilitation Cost (ERC) calculation in place
of the old FA calculator.
In our experience it isn’t as simple as just inputting the old
disturbance figures into the new ERC calculator, the disturbance
figures are now required to be supplied to the department in a very
specific shapefile format, which is difficult to achieve using any
other software than ArcGIS. There have been significant changes to
areas of the calculator and some inputs are no longer available, we
find that the new ERC calculator is less flexible for small operations
(where liability is <$1million). Generally third-party quotes are
required to avoid the exorbitant default values, but the format for
third-party quotes have also been updated with additional information
being required, making it harder to get a ‘conforming quote’ from a
third-party organisation. If your organisation is struggling to come
to terms with the new ERC calculator, then Ausrocks can assist with
one or more of the following options;
Assistance to convert old FA estimates into the new ERC calculator
Conversion of shapefiles to be accepted by the spatial submission
tool
Sourcing conforming third-party quotes for user defined inputs
Performing an assessment of your ERC calculator to ensure accurate
reporting of your liability and look for savings or shortfalls based
on our experience in similar sites.
Call us on (07) 3265 3399 for more on how we can assist with the ERC
calculation of your operation to ensure you aren’t getting lost in the
assessment process or handing over more money than you need to, and
turn your FA nightmare into sweet FA, with Ausrocks.
ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGMENT
Ausrocks
along with our associates, can produce detailed environmental
management plans for your mine or quarry site to ensure your
operation's compliance with legislative requirements. These plans
include but are not limited to:
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Ausrocks
engineers and associates have the relevant experience and NATA
qualifications to conduct site Environmental Monitoring programmes for
your site including:
Monitoring
can be carried out proactively or in response to a community
complaint. Ausrocks are able to project manage the environmental
monitoring programme and liaise with the administering authority to
interpret results and achieve the best outcome for your site.
WEATHER MONITORING
Ausrocks
can provide detailed site-specific weather data for your site. We
provide and install basic or sophisticated weather stations with
multiple sensors to collect the data which is then accessed on site.
Arrangements can be made for direct purchase or monthly serviced
rental. Data collected includes:
Once
data has been collected from the weather station we then graph the
information and provide short and long term trends for your site.
Ausrocks can also model the site-specific wind trend data in situ with
the topography, in the form of a geographically referenced Wind Rose
graph, allowing for better dust and noise modelling and planning.