(HHMP) HEALTH AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PLAN
HHMP HEALTH AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PLAN – WHAT IS IT?
A Health and Hygiene Management Plan (HHMP) is a systematic process for managing agents that may adversely impact on a worker’s health at all stages of a mining operation. It forms an integral part of an organisation’s Safety Management System and complements other major hazard management plans.
The Health and Hygiene Management Plan HHMP documents and provides a structured means of creating a register of hazardous agents workers are exposed to and provides details of control measures used to eliminate and reduce exposures. It also outlines the methods used to verify that the controls are effective.
WHY HAVE A HHMP HEALTH AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PLAN?
Identification and management of hazards is a requirement of the Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 (MSIA)
WHEN IS A HHMP HEALTH AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PLAN REQUIRED?
All mining operations, including processing plants, supporting infrastructure (e.g. ports, camps, airports), rehabilitation areas and exploration sites are required to identify hazards, assess the risks posed by the identified hazards, implement controls and document methods by which the effectiveness of those controls are assessed. This is to be conducted in the form of a HHMP (Health and Hygiene Management Plan).
Typical hazards covered by a HHMP
The HHMP is to be submitted :
- Prior to operations commencing
- Whenever significant changes occur to operations that may alter the risk profile
The HHMP is reviewed and submitted
- Five yearly, only if the risk profile or control strategies have not changed significantly
WHAT ARE HHMP HEALTH AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PLAN REQUIREMENTS?
The HHMP covers all the activities at an operation. It should provide the following information:
- an overview of the operation and the processes that occur at the site(s)
- the chemical, physical, biological agents and human stressors associated with the site
- an assessment of the risk posed by the agents (including the method of determining risk)
- the controls in place to reduce or mitigate the risk posed by the agents
- techniques used to verify that controls are working
- proposed improvements to the controls, and methods of their verification and validation.
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