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Uncompromising Safety Focus

Capital Drilling has an uncompromising commitment to the occupational health & safety of employees

Uncompromising Safety Focus

Capital Drilling has an uncompromising commitment to the occupational health and safety of its employees and others where it works. The company operates in many diverse, remote and often difficult locations, and employees' wellbeing, regardless of where they work, is paramount.

It also understands the importance its clients place on safe operations - free of incidents, hazards and near misses and strives to diligently exceed the most stringent safety requirements, and deliver safe, and productive drilling solutions.

The company has numerous safety initiatives, training programs, policies and procedures designed to ensure all employees have the knowledge to conduct their work safely and to address Class 1 Risks in the business. These include:

  1. Golden Safety Rules
    Overarching guidelines for employee behaviour to prevent harm to themselves or others in the workplace.
  2. Safety Risk Leadership Walks
    Regular leadership and site management walks throughout its operations, working with employees to identify and eradicate potential hazards.
  3. Project HSE Management plans
    Customised plans are developed to meet specific client needs and address risks identified through Capital's Base Line Risk Assessment program for every project. Risks are identified from tender phase, project mobilisation through to ongoing operations.
  4. Speak Up Culture
    All Capital employees have the right to refuse to complete a task if they are not trained, they feel unsafe, or they believe it places themselves or others at risk of harm.
  5. Class 1 Risk Program
    The company framework to identify, understand controls and implement mitigation actions for significant Class 1 Risks in the business.
  6. ICAM Incident Investigation
    Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM) incident investigation tool establishes root cause of an incident and implements corrective actions.
  7. Training Programmes
    Capital invests significantly in training programmes to ensure the ongoing competency and safety of its employees.
  8. Safety Monitoring
    Site safety dashboards monitor the safety performance of individual operational sites enabling tracking against targets, trend identification and implementation of pre-emptive corrective actions.
  9. Mobilisation and Journey Management Safety
    During mobilisation or other equipment and personnel transport, stringent safety processes ensure their safety, security and on-time arrival for project start up.
  10. Drilling Equipment Standards
    Drilling Equipment Standards (DES), provide minimum safety and operational features for all rigs and equipment - brand new rigs may be modified to meet Capital's high safety requirements.

Capital also places great importance on monitoring and continuous improvement of its safety processes to address leading indicators, trends, behaviours and conditions influencing Class 1 Risks.

As a result, they have recently launched their ‘Do it Right. Do it Safe' program. This At-risk Behavior Campaign addresses the human factors of employees and supervisors creating unsafe behaviors that contribute to incidents.

Graham Almond, Executive General Manager Operations Support, said "The focus on human factors is a critical step forward to our focus on zero harm and improving our employees personal risk management behaviour."

 

Most importantly the Company works continuously with its employees to ensure they understand the controls to mitigate any risk and are empowered to act if they are unsafe in their workplace or they identify an unsafe condition or behaviour.

For more information on Capital's safety culture, please visit the website http://www.capdrill.com/safety or download the brochure http://www.capdrill.com/media/safety/CAPD_SafetyBrochure.pdf

ABOUT THIS COMPANY
Capital Drilling

Capital Drilling (Capital) provides complete exploration and production drilling solutions to customers within the global minerals industry, including: blast hole, directional, grade control, resource development and underground drilling services, together with geo-technical and survey capabilities.

The company’s reputation is built on an unwavering commitment to safety, delivering professional drilling solutions – even in the most remote and challenging environments – and going the extra mile to deliver on its customers’ individual requirements.

Solutions Focussed

Drilling, by its very nature, can present many challenges: difficult formations, isolated locations, equipment wear and tear and significant costs. Capital focuses on providing solutions, not just to achieve metres drilled each day, but that consider the financial impact and broader operational objectives of its customers. Employees use their extensive knowledge, innovative thinking and intimate understanding of their client’s projects to provide the best solutions.

The company’s large rig fleet also enables it to provide a diverse range of drilling solutions across all phases of the mining cycle from greenfields exploration to production. Its capacity ensures we can provide flexible solutions for all our customer’s needs.

Unrivalled Commitment to Safety

Capital has a genuine commitment to keeping its employees’ safe and to continually reduce their exposure to risk while performing their work. It expects visible safety leadership across all levels of the company and operations, from its Executive Leadership Team to drill crews on site.

Capable, Professional and Highly Experienced Personnel

Our company’s reputation has been built on providing professional drilling services, regardless of the location. We invest substantially in training programs and professional development for our employees, ensuring they are skilled, confident and competent in completing their role.

Structured to Meet Our Customer’s Needs

Our clients have very different needs when they are completing exploration drilling programs compared to operating once production has commenced. Our company is structured to respond accordingly, our exploration team can mobilise quickly providing flexible drilling solutions, while our production teams provide long term services focused on delivering to the mine plan. 

 

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