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Reports and Other Publications
Cliff, D. and Farrelly, K. (2008), Review of Health monitoring and surveillance requirements and practice in Australian mining OHS Jurisdictions and a description of best practice conducted for the Mine Safety Advisory Council of NSW.
Cliff, D. and Horberry, T. (2008), Driving on empty: driver fatigue is dangerous, Queensland Government Mining Journal, April, pp 82–85.
Alexopoulos, A., Balcomb, J., Brady, D., Bullough, S., Capper, B., Carter, D., Cliff, D., Coughlan, J., Dalliston, G., Danckett, J., Devlin, S., Farrag, M., Harrington, B., Kirsten, M., Mackay, A., Ryan, L., Starr, K., Tanner, M., Wardle, A., Watkinson, M. and Watson, T. (2007), 2007 Queensland Level 1 Mine Emergency Exercise. Grasstree Colliery 30-31 July 2007. Queensland Government Department of Mines and Energy.
Black, M., Cliff, D. and Kingsland, R. (2007), Geotechnical assessment of underground mining impact for a proposed urban development project in Cessnock, NSW, Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 3(1).
Burgess-Limerick, R., Straker, L., Pollock, C., Dennis, G., Leveritt, S. and Johnson, S. (2007), Implementation of the Participative Ergonomics for Manual Tasks (PErforM) Programme at four Australian underground coal mines. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol 37(2), pp 145-155.
Joy, J. (2007), Minerals Industry Risk Management Guideline (MDG1010 version 2), NSW Department of Primary Industries, July.
Leveritt, S. (2007), MISHC Education overview, Australasian Mine Safety, May.
Parker, T. and Cliff, D. (2007), A Review of the Queensland Mines and Quarries Annual Safety Performance and Health Report, report to the Queensland Department of Mines and Energy.
Leveritt, S. (2006), Improving the human factors design of earth moving equipment, Queensland Government Mining Journal, December.
Leveritt, S. (2006), MISHC overview, Australasian Mine Safety Journal.
Reece, D., Dalliston, G., Cliff, D., Watkinson, M., Brady, D., Devlin, S., Stothard, R., Hartley, W., Thomasson, D., Carter, M., Forsyth, G., Kirner, L., Capper, B. and Monaghan, A. (2005), Oaky Creek No. 1 Coal Mine Level 1 Emergency Exercise Conducted on November 1 2004, Safety and Health Division of the Department of Natural Resources and Mines.
Beach, R., Cliff, D. (2003), Turnover and FIFO Operations: Some Facts, Opinions and Theories, The AusIMM Bulletin, no.5, September/October, pp 64-65.
Beach, R., Cliff, D. and Brereton, D. (2003), Workforce Turnover in FIFO Mining Operations in Australia: An Exploratory Study, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland.
Cliff, D. (2003), The role of regulation in the management of fitness for duty in the mining industry, First National OHS Regulation Research Consortium Workshop, ANU, Canberra.
Cliff, D. (2002), Ventilation Officer Training in Australian Underground coal mines, Journal of the Mine Ventilation Society of South Africa, October/December.
Griffith,D. and Joy, J. (2002), National Minerals Industry Safety and Health Risk Assessment Guideline, Minerals Council of Australia, available at www.mishc.uq.edu.au.
Rowan, G., Dalliston, G., Bird, M., Baker, P., Downs, M., McCamley, M., Watkinson, M., Cliff, D., Singer, K., Olsen, M., Beveridge, P., Purse, A., Hartley, W. and Randolph, N. (2002), Report on the Simulated Emergency Exercise held at North Goonyella Coal Mine, Monday 4 November 2002, Safety and Health Division of the Department of Natural Resources and Mines.
Donoghue, A. M. and Kizil, G. (2002), Coal dust exposures in the longwall mines of New South Wales; Australia; a respiratory risk assessment, Occupational Medicine, Vol 52 (30), pp 137-149.
Pinnock, M. and Cliff, D. (2001), Working Time Arrangements in the Resources Sector in the 21st Century - The Employer Perspective, in Proceedings of the Australian Mining and Minerals Association Conference, Brisbane.
Rowan, G., Cliff, D., Jackson, T., Smith, M., Baker, P., Watkinson, M., Marshall, J., de Santis, T., Bird, M., Pendlebury W., and Dalliston, G. (2001), Report on an Emergency Exercise at Kestrel Colliery 27 November 2001, Safety and Health Division of the Department of Mines and Energy.
Donoghue, A. M. (2001), A risk-based system to penalize and reward line management for occupational safety and health performance, Occupational Medicine, Vol 51 (5), p354-356.
Donoghue, A. M. (2001), The design of hazard risk assessment matrices for ranking occupational health risks and their application in mining and minerals processing, Occupational Medicine, Vol 51 (2), pp 118-123.
Cliff, D 2008, ‘National Minerals Industry Safety and Health Risk Assessment Guidelines’, presented at the Annual Institute of Quarrying Australia Professional Development Seminar, February 2008.
Cliff, D 2008, ‘What to consider when developing an emergency preparedness system’, presented at the IQPC Emergency Response Conference, February 2008.
Cliff, D 2008, Key note presenter at International Mine Safety Training Course, May 2008, Changsta – China.
Hitchcock, W, Cliff, D & Beamish, B 2008, ‘A study of the gases produced by the oxidation of bulk coal under laboratory conditions’, presented at COAL 2008, February 2008.
Joy, J 2008, 'Risk Analysis Workshop for the National Mining Association', Las Vegas.
Joy, J 2008, 'Risk Assessment & the US Mining Industry', MINExpo International 2008, 24 September 2008, Las Vegas.
Joy, J 2008, ‘Case studies of a control effectiveness analysis method for major hazard management’, at Next Quest for New South Wales Minerals Council Ltd,
Kizil, G & Rasche, T 2008, ‘TYREgate – a Causal Factors Database and Risk Management Decision Making Support Tool for Earthmover Tyres and Rims’, paper presented at the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, 17-19 August 2008.
Leveritt, S 2008, ‘ Engagement – a strategy for improving equipment design’, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA QLD).
Leveritt, S 2008, ‘Bridging the Gap’, Directions in OHS Research and Practice, VIOSH 30th anniversary conference.
Leveritt, S & Egan, T 2008, ‘EMESRT resources for improving safety through better equipment design’, NSW Mining Industry OHS Conference.
2007
Cliff, D & Bergin, P 2007, ‘The Management of a Spontaneous Combustion Incident in a Sealed Area of a Longwall Mine’, paper presented at the 32nd International Conference of Safety in Mines Research Institutes, 28-29 September 2007.
Cliff, D 2007, ‘A comparison of two mine disasters’, paper presented at OHS Regulation Research Colloquium, 6-8 February 2007, Canberra - ACT.
Cliff, D 2007, ‘Information: The Achilles Heel of Emergency Response’, paper presented at the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, 5-8 August 2007, Townsville – QLD.
Cliff, D 2007, ‘C14017 Borehole Tool for Investigating Otherwise Inaccessible Areas’, paper presented to Bowen Basin Geologists Group, 1 March 2007, Rockhampton – QLD.
Joy, J 2007, EMESRT presentation at the 6th Annual Health and Safety Conference and Exhibition for IFAP Safety.
Joy, J 2007, EMESRT presentation at the Annual Occupational Health and Safety Conference for NSW Minerals Industry.
Joy, J 2007, EMESRT presentation at the Anglo American PLC Safety Leadership Summit.
Kizil, G, Joy, J & Strawson, C 2007, ‘Utilization of Bow Tie Analysis for Ground Control Risk Assessment’, 20th International Mining Congress and Exhibition, Turkey.
Leveritt, S 2007, ‘Information gateway for improving human factors design’, paper presented at the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, 5-8 August 2007, Townsville – QLD.
2006
Cliff, D 2006, ‘The relationship between the hours of work and safety related incidents in the coal mining industry’, paper presented at the 3rd Occupational Safety and Health Regulations Research Consortium Workshop, month 2006, Canberra – ACT.
Cliff, D 2006, ‘The development of TARPS for Spontaneous Combustion Management’, paper presented at the Mine Managers Association of Australia Continuing Professional Development Seminar, April 2006, Belmont – USA.
Cliff, D 2006, ‘The Relationship between hours of work and accidents and incidents in the Australian Coal Mining Industry’, paper presented at the NSW Minerals Council Safety and Health Conference, July 2006.
Cliff, D & Bofinger, C 2006, ‘Establishment of hours of work Risk Factors relevant to Coal Mining’, paper presented at the Safety Institute of Australia Queensland Branch Conference, September 2006. – Subsequently reprinted in Safety Institute News, no. 3, December 2006, Yeppoon – QLD.
Kizil, G, Joy, J & Strawson, C 2006, ‘Improving Ground Control Risk Management Strategies’, Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, August, 2006, Townsville – QLD.
Leveritt, S 2006, ‘Communication and training for informal risk assessment’, Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, August 2006, Townsville – QLD.
Leveritt, S 2006, ‘Use of information to improve informal risk assessments’, MCA (Victorian Branch) Annual Safety Seminar.
Leveritt, S 2006, ‘Organisational design of communication for informal risk assessment’, HFESA conference.
Beamish, B, Clarkson, F & Cliff, D 2005, ‘Gas Evolution Testing of Coal Oxidation – small-scale versus bulk-scale’, Coal 2005.
Bofinger, C 2005, ‘Fatigue Management – Are we winning’, Proceedings of the 2005 Northern Territory Safety Conference: Territory Safe, Darwin.
Bofinger, C 2005, ‘Monitoring and management of occupational illness and disease at a National level in the Australian Minerals Industry’, Proceedings Coal 2005, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Brisbane.
Bofinger, C 2005,’Monitoring and management of occupational illness and disease at a National level in the Australian Minerals Industry’ paper presented at the 31st International Safety in Mines Research Institutes Conference, Brisbane – QLD.
Bofinger, C 2005, ‘The Effectiveness Of Breaks And Rest Periods In Managing Fatigue In The Workplace’, Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Annual Conference.
Cliff, D 2005, ‘The relationship between the hours of work and safety related incidents in the coal mining industry’, paper presented at the 31st International Safety in Mines Research Institutes Conference, Brisbane – QLD.
Cliff, D 2005, ‘The chemistry of coal oxidation’, paper presented at the 31st International Safety in Mines Research Institutes Conference, Brisbane – QLD.
Cliff, D 2005, ‘Recent developments in Inertisation in Australian Coal Mines’, paper presented at the 2nd International Mines Rescue Conference, Sydney – NSW.
Cliff, D 2005, ‘The Ability of Current Gas Monitoring Techniques to Adequately Detect Spontaneous Combustion’, paper presented at the 6th Coal Operator’s Conference, Brisbane – QLD.
Cliff, D, Clarkson, F & Beamish, B 2005, ‘Gas evolution testing of coal oxidation – small-scale versus bulk-scale’, paper presented at the 31st International Safety in Mines Research Institutes Conference.
Cliff, D & Moreby, R 2005, ‘The demonstration of electronic systems to assist in the management of a significant incident’, Coal 2005.
Kizil, G & Joy, J 2005, ‘The Development and Implementation of Minerals Industry Risk Management Gateway – MIRMgate’, paper presented at the 32nd International Symposium on APCOM, Applications of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industry, 30 March-1 April 2005. Tuscon, Arizona – USA.
Leveritt, S 2005, ‘Communication – the conduit for better management of day-to-day safety’, Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, August 2005, Townsville – QLD.
Leveritt, S 2005, ‘Unravelling the communications maze’, NSW Mining Industry OHS Conference.
Leveritt, S 2005, ‘Minerals Industry Risk Management Gateway (MIRMgate)’, MCA (Victorian Branch) Annual Safety Seminar.
Morrell, A 2005, ‘Reducing Harm to people in the operation of Minerals Industry Mobile equipment’, Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, August 2005, Townsville – QLD.
2004
Bofinger, C 2004, ‘The Health Jigsaw – current health projects in the minerals industry’, Proceedings of the 2004 Northern Territory Safety Conference, Territory Safe.
Bofinger, C 2004, ’Industry Health Surveillance – “Getting Smarter” in the Minerals Industry’, Proceedings of the Queensland Mining Industry Safety and Health Conference, Townsville.
Cliff, D 2004, ‘The Minerals Industry Cooperation Initiative (MICI) Project – an update’, paper presented to the NSW Minerals Council Conference, 25-28 July 2004, Leura – NSW.
Cliff, D 2004, ‘Evaluation of Incident Management during Level One Emergency Response Simulation Exercise in Queensland Underground Coal Mines’, paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Coal Research, 26–29 October 2004, Shanghai– China.
Cliff, D 2004, ‘The Management of Recent Spontaneous Combustion Events in Australian Underground Coal Mines’, paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Coal Research, 26–29 October 2004, Shanghai – China.
Cliff, D 2004, ‘Monitoring Mine Fires – Facts and Fantasies’, paper presented at the Queensland Minerals Industry Safety and Health Conference, Townsville – QLD.
Cliff, D & Lakeland, J 2004, ‘The Development of Practical Borehole Based Monitoring Devices – ACARP Project C11033’, paper presented at the Outburst Seminar, 17 November 2004, Wollongong – NSW.
Cliff, D & Lakeland, J 2004, ‘The development of a borehole tool for investigating otherwise inaccessible areas in underground coalmines’, paper presented at the NSW Minerals Council Occupational Health and Safety Conference, Leura – NSW.
Cliff, D & Lakeland, J 2004, ‘The development of a borehole tool for investigating otherwise inaccessible areas in underground coalmines’, paper presented at the Queensland Minerals Industry Safety and Health Conference, Townsville – QLD.
Kizil, G & Joy, J 2004, ‘How to get the best out of MIRMgate?’ NSW Occupational Health and Safety Conference, 2004, Sydney – NSW.
Leveritt, S 2004, ‘Learning from Positive and negative events’, MCA Sustainable Development Conference.
Leveritt, S 2004, ‘Lessons Learned for the Australian Minerals Industry’, paper presented at the Queensland Minerals Industry Safety and Health Conference, Townsville – QLD.
Leveritt, S 2004, ‘Participative Ergonomics for manual tasks in coal mining; progress report’, NSW Mining Industry OHS conference.
Leveritt, S 2004, ‘An industry-wide approach to sharing lessons about incidents and innovations’, NSW Mining Industry OHS conference.
Bofinger, C & Mahon, E 2003, ‘The value of Health and Exposure Databases – The Workplace, Health and Heart Disease’, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Occupational Hygienists.
Bofinger, C 2003, ‘Risk Management Approaches to Managing Fatigue and Shiftwork, Proceedings Fatigue and Shift Work Management in the Mining Industry – towards a risk based approach’, Australian Journal of Mining Conference, Hunter Valley.
Bofinger, C Mahon, E, Cliff, D & Leveritt, S 2003, ‘What works best at improving mine worker safety and why does it work?’ in the Proceedings of the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, 4–7 August 2003, Townsville – QLD.
Cliff, D 2003, ‘Occupational Health and Safety: The Impact of new legislation and emerging issues’, paper presented at the IIR Surface Mining Conference, Brisbane – QLD.
Cliff, D 2003, ‘A Review of Queensland Level One Emergency Response Exercises’, Longwall 2003, Hunter Valley.
Cliff, D 2003, ‘Improving significant incident investigation in underground coal mines’, in the Proceedings of the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, 4–7 August 2003, Townsville – QLD.
Cliff, D 2003, ‘The role of regulation in the management of fitness for duty in the mining industry’, paper presented at the First National OHS Regulation Research Consortium Workshop.
Cliff, D, Beach, R & Brereton, D 2003, ‘Employee turnover as a sustainability issue’, from the proceedings of the Minerals Council of Australia 2003 Sustainable Development Conference – Value through Sustainable Development, September, pp. 492–506, Melbourne – VIC.
Cliff, D, Beach, R & Brereton, D 2003 ‘Managing workforce turnover on remote mine sites in Australia’, paper presented at the MINSAFE 2003 International Conference, Perth – WA.
Cliff, D, Bofinger, C, Mahon, E & Leveritt, S 2003, ‘What works best at improving mine worker safety and why it does work’, in the proceedings of the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, Townsville – QLD.
Cliff, D & Leary, C 2003, ‘A Study of the Health and Safety Aspects of Fatigue, Shiftwork and Rosters at Pasminco Century Mine’, in the Proceedings of the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, 4–7 August 2003, Townsville – QLD.
Cliff, D & Reece, D 2003, ‘A Review of Level One Emergency Response Exercises’, paper presented at IIR Conference, 18-21 November 2003, Hunter Valley – NSW.
Cliff, D & Scanlan, G 2003, ‘Case Study of Pasminco Century Mine’, paper presented at the Fatigue and Shiftwork in Mining Conference, Hunter Valley – NSW.
Kizil, G 2003, ‘MIRMgate Development’, paper presented at the Sustainable Minerals Institute Round Table, 21 October 2003, Indooroopilly – QLD.
Kizil, G 2003, ‘Managing Sustainability “Risks”’, paper presented at the Sustainable Development Conference – ‘Value through Sustainable Development’, 10-14 November 2003, Brisbane – QLD.
Kizil, G 2003, ‘Safety Case: Is it the way to go?’ paper presented at Minesafe International, 12-15 October 2003, Perth – WA.
Kizil, G 2003, ‘Defining the Discipline of Risk Management within the Mining Industry’, paper presented at Safety in Action, 8-10 April 2003, Melbourne – VIC.
Kizil, G 2003, ‘An Overview of Risk in Mining’, paper presented at Mining and Post Mining Landscapes: what are the environmental risks that matter?, 23-24 June 2003, Rockhampton – QLD.
Kizil, G 2003, ‘The Future of Risk Management in the Australian Mining Industry – The basis for a Quantum Change’, paper presented at the Mining Risk Management Conference, 9-11 September 2003, Sydney – NSW.
Kizil, G & Joy, J 2003, ‘Introducing Minerals Industry Risk Management Gateway, MIRMgate’, paper presented at the Minesafe International Conference, 12-15 October 2003, Perth – WA.
Leveritt, S 2003, ‘Manual Task Risk Management Workshop’, NSW Mining Industry OHS conference.
Burgess-Limerick, R, Joy, J, Leveritt, S & Straker, L 2002, ‘Reducing Musculo Skeletal Risk in Open Cut Coal Mining’, NSW Minerals Industry Safety and Health Conference.
Joy, J 2002, ‘The National Guideline for Risk Assessment’ Longwall 2002: Maximising Productivity, Profitability & Investment Potential. 26-29 November 2002, Newcastle – NSW.
Joy, J 2002, ‘Managing Risk in Mining’, Safety in Action Conference, Melbourne – VIC.
Kizil, G 2002 ‘MIRMgate Minerals Information Risk Management Gateway’. SMI, October 2002, Indooroopilly – QLD.
2001
Joy, J 2001, ‘Improving the Quality of Risk Assessment’, NSW Mining Industry Occupational Health & Safety Conference, 29-31 July 2001, Terrigal – NSW.
Joy, J 2001, ‘Risk Assessment Methods & Risk Based Safety Management’, Victorian Minerals & Energy Council Safety Workshop “Risk Assessment”, 29 November 2001, Melbourne – Australia.
Joy, J 2001, Geotechnical Risk Management Seminar, Perth – Australia.
Joy, J 2001, Cable Sands Management H&S Committee Meeting, Bunbury – Australia.
Joy, J 2001, ‘Presentation on Risk Management Principles’, Drill-safe Meeting, Adelaide – Australia.
Joy, J 2001, Managing Trucks, Fuel & Tyres Conference, Sydney – Australia.
Joy, J 2001, ‘Presentation on the Catastrophic Risk Management’, Minerals Council of Australia Catastrophic Risk Management Conference, Adelaide – Australia.
Joy, J 2001, RioTinto Regional OH&S Conference, Perth – Australia.
Kizil, M S, & Joy, J 2001, ‘What can Virtual Reality do for Safety?’, Queensland Mining Industry Safety and Health Conference.
Leveritt, S 2001, ‘A Cyber approach to teaching and communicating OHS’, in the proceedings of the Safety Institute of Australia's VISIONS Conference, October 2001, Cairns – Australia.
2000
Donoghue, A M 2000, ‘Ranking Occupational Health Risks in Mining and Minerals Processing’, Queensland Mining Industry Health & Safety Conference: A New Era in Mine Health and Safety Management, 27-30 August 2000, Townsville – QLD.
Joy, J 2000, ‘Risk and Decision Making in the Minerals Industry’, Queensland Mining Industry Health & Safety Conference: A New Era in Mine Health and Safety Management, 27-30 August 2000, Townsville – QLD.
Joy, J 2000, AusIMM Annual Conference, Sydney – Australia.
Joy, J 2000, ‘System Safety in Australian Coal Mining’, The 12th Coal Congress of Turkey, 23-26 May 2000, Turkey.
Joy, J 2000, ‘Risk Management Integration and Decision Making’ in the Minerals Industry NSW Minerals Council OH&S Conference, Terrigal – Australia.
Joy, J 2000, OH&S in Design Conference, Adelaide – Australia.
Joy, J 2000, ‘Risk Management in the Mining Industry’, West Australian Mining OH&S Conference, Busselton – Australia.
Joy,J 2000, AUSIMM conference - The Future of Mining, Sydney – Australia.
Joy, J 2000,’ A Systems Based Analysis Of 25 System Safety Accident Investigations (SSAIs) Of Major Mining Events’, Queensland Mining OH&S Conference, Townsville – Australia.
Kizil, G & Joy, J 2000, ‘The Role of the Mineral Industry Safety and Health Centre in the Australian Minerals Education’, The 12th Coal Congress of Turkey, 23-26 May 2000, Turkey.
1999
Joy, J 1999, ‘Defining the discipline of risk management within the mining industry’, Queensland Mining Industry Safety and Health Conference.
Joy, J & McKee, D J 1998, ‘Safety Education Initiatives At The University Of Queensland’, Queensland Mining OH&S Conference, Townsville – Australia.