| Title/Short Description | Subject | Date | |
Post-Blast Fumes - Updated July 2019
Guidance on post-blast fumes and the steps to be taken to help reduce their production and avoid exposure to them.
Target Audience - All those involved in the blasting operation – especially the post-blast inspection process.
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Thunderstorms – Risks and Actions - Updated Feb 2020
Guidance on what steps to take if a thunderstorm approaches
during the blasting process.
Target Audience - Anybody involved in the blasting process.
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Fires on Explosives Vehicles - Updaed February 2020
Guidance on what steps to take in the event of a fire on a vehicle that is either carrying explosives or materials used to make explosives.
Target Audience - All those working on quarries or surface mines where
explosives are used.
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
The Post-Blast Inspection - Updated Feb 2020
Guidance on the post-blast inspection process
Target Audience - Shotfirers and Explosive Supervisors.
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Danger Zone Control and the Duties of Sentries Updated Feb 2020
.Guidance on how to ensure control of the danger zone and what is expected from sentries.
Target Audience - Managers, Supervisors, Shotfirers, Sentries and Explosives Supervisors
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Defining the Danger Zone for Blasting - Updated Feb 2020
Guidance on what to consider when determining the danger zone for quarry blasting. The target audience for this toolbox talk is shotfirers, explosives supervisors and quarry operators.
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Loading and Unloading of Drilling Rigs & Compressors - Updated 2020
An illustrated toolbox talk produced by the QNJAC, addressing: competence; loading area; pre-loading checks; loading; unloading; example incident; key points
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Positioning a shotfiring shelter - Toolbox Talk - Updated Feb 2020
Toolbox talk providing guidance on the correct location of shelters.
| Drilling and Blasting | 04/03/2021 | |
Updated - The Management of Electrical Safety in Quarries, Associated Plant and Equipment
This guidance covers the generalities of the Management System for Electrical Installations at quarries, associated non quarry sites and mobile equipment.
Plant Information Sheet 1 - (Version 2, January 2021) - review date: 2026
| Plant – fixed and mobile | 18/01/2021 | |
Site energy isolation self audit - June 2019 Updated AUDIT
QNJAC has produced an even more user friendly version of their Isolation Self-Audit tool, with improved functionality which now allows the question set to be completed electronically. Members are reminded of the importance of guarding and isolation and conducting regular audits to check that their arrangements and procedures are sufficient. In this regard, the QNJAC Self Audit tool should prove very useful.
| Plant – fixed and mobile | 01/07/2020 | |
Relationship between impacts of geotechnical management, drilling and blasting in a quarry - QNJAC toolbox talk
A toolbox talk on information and engagement in relation to the impacts that geotechnical management, drilling and blasting have on one another in a quarry operation.
It is aimed at quarry operators, quarry managers, supervisors, geotechnical specialists and those persons carrying out drilling and blasting work at the quarry.
Prepared by the QNJAC Joint Drill, Blast and Geotechnical Group in May 2020.
| Drilling and Blasting | 26/05/2020 | |
Face surveying - QNJAC Toolbox Talk
This toolbox talk is aimed at quarry managers, supervisors and those persons responsible for implementing the recommended measures from geotechnical assessments and managing the surveying operation.
Prepared by the QNJAC Joint Drill, Blast and Geotechnical Group in May 2020.
| Geotechnical, Faces & Stockpiles | 26/05/2020 | |