The Chamber of Minerals and Energy’s (CME) intense mine rescue competition was recently held in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
SMERC saw mines rescue teams compete in nine challenging scenarios designed to improve emergency response skills and knowledge.
The scenarios included team skills, confined space rescue, fire-fighting, vehicle extrication, rope rescue, hazardous chemicals, first aid, incident management scenario and a theory assessment.
CME chief executive Reg Howard-Smith said spectator participation featured strongly over the weekend.
“It was great to see the competition return to a public venue to celebrate the 25th anniversary of surface mine competitions in the Goldfields,” Mr Howard-Smith said.
“The competition highlighted just how important the role of emergency preparedness is within the community and for resources sector operations.”
Norton Gold Fields Ltd took out the overall honours for Best Team followed by runner up, Gold Fields St Ives.
The other winners include:
- Best Captain: Wade Leeson, Gold Fields St Ives
- Team Safety: Gold Fields St Ives
- Overall Breathing Apparatus Skills: Norton Gold Fields Ltd
- Overall First Aid: KCGM
- Fire Fighting: Norton Gold Fields Ltd
- Team Skills: Norton Gold Fields Ltd
- Theory: Gold Fields Combined Team
- Theory Individual: Tari Pawlyk, Norton Gold Fields Ltd
- Confined Space Rescue: Gold Fields St Ives
- First Aid: Norton Gold Fields Ltd
- Vehicle Extrication: Gold Fields St Ives
- HazChem: Gold Fields St Ives
- Rope Rescue: Norton Gold Fields Ltd
CME congratulates the competing teams, event managers and volunteers who all worked hard to produce a very successful event, and thanks KCGM for the use of the Hannans North facility as the competition venue.
