In May 2013, an Alpha Natural Resources underground mine encountered an active, unmapped gas well. Mining ceased due to high methane levels. There were no injuries and no ignition. Alpha Natural Resources asks the question, How Can Such Incidents Be Prevented. Utilizing CORESafety Module 4 on Fatality Prevention and Risk Management, the Plan, Do, Check, Act process helps identify risk, assess and prioritize, apply controls, and verify that the controls are effective.
Download the latest resource, Risk Reduction by Applying CORESafety, to learn more about how Alpha Natural Resource responded by applying CORESafety approach to risk reduction and their creation of the MISS (Mapping and Identification of Surface Structures) project.
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