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WHAT IS THE “QNJAC”?

QNJAC is an abbreviation of the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee.

QNJAC is a tripartite body comprising quarrying and extractive industry representatives of employers; employees; the government regulator (Health & Safety Executive, HSE); professional membership bodies; trade unions; and industry training/educational organisations.

The ‘engine room’ of QNJAC comprises a series of sub-committees and working groups which focus on subject areas or projects, as required. Working groups look at regulations along with innovations, accident and incident reports, best practice, and new technologies to produce updated guidance.

Approved QNJAC output is principally in the form of Guidance documents which, when confirmed by HSE’s Publications Governance Group, are published on the QNJAC website. This guidance along with self-audits can help employers understand where they are in relation to regulations, help create action plans to fill gaps and use the new guidance to apply the regulation in today's working environment.

QNJAC is made up of volunteers from quarrying and related products industry, everyone involved are passionate about this work and the overall aim, is to help everyone working in this great industry, stay safe.

Main points of QNJAC

QNJAC is the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee.
Focused on promoting the health and safety in all sectors of the quarrying and associated industries.
Committed to making the industry a safer place, through the raising of training standards and competence.
Providing approved guidance documents available to all, visit us at www.QNJAC.co.uk or connect with us via our LinkedIn group.

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12 QNJAC Article(s) returned

Title/Short Description	Subject	Date
Drones - QNJAC Guidance on the use of drones in quarries This guidance is designed to assist quarry operators and appointed persons understand some of the rules regarding the use of drones, help them understand some of the terminology around drone flights and associated risk assessments provided by drone contractors. Use this guidance to inform your policies and procedures with dealing with drone related activities. You can refer to this guidance should you need to induct a drone contractor onto your site to carry out drone related activities.	Contractors	31/01/2024
Drones - hand out for members of the public Leaflet that can be used with members of the public when engaging about the use of drones	Contractors	31/01/2024
Drones - briefing on key points when engaging with members of public The flying of drones within quarries can be a contentious subject, particularly when an individual is requesting permission to fly their drone over/in the quarry. This briefing note reminds operators of how to deal effectively with these types of enquiries and to avoid the situations developing into potential conflict.	Contractors	31/01/2024
Drones - No fly safety sign Please see an example of a sign regarding no fly zones around quarries	Contractors	31/01/2024
QNJAC resources on mental wealth and wellbeing QNJAC has developed a suite of 4 complimentary resources to assist both employees and their managers to manage stress in the work environment. They include both self-audit tools, action plans and links to appropriate organisations or resources that can provide support. These can be downloaded from either Safequarry or the QNJAC website. Mental wealth and wellbeing - self-audit tool Mental wealth and wellbeing - signposting Mental wealth and wellbeing risk assessment - stress questionnaire - Part A Mental wealth and wellbeing risk assessment - individual level - Part B	Occupational Health	12/06/2023
Mental wealth and wellbeing self-audit tool This self-audit tool has been produced by a working group of QNJAC, which comprises industry experts from varied backgrounds, the Trades Unions and HSE*. This document provides a structured framework to enable organisations to carry out self-audits of their approach to mental wealth and wellbeing in the workplace and steps they may wish to take to make improvements	Occupational Health	09/06/2023
Mental wealth and wellbeing signposting - QNJAC This document provides signposting for support and resources to assist in the management of mental wealth and wellbeing issues in the work place. QNJAC has tailored the links to the resources so that they are the most appropriate based on your role.	Occupational Health	09/06/2023
Mental wealth and wellbeing risk assessment - Individual level Part B - QNJAC This form allows employee and their line manager to develop a plan of action following the completion of the stress questionnaire (Part A) .	Occupational Health	09/06/2023
Mental wealth and wellbeing risk assessment - stress questionnaire Part A - QNJAC This risk assessment form includes questions that relate to six potential psychological hazards that can be the causes of stress at work. These are job demands, control, support, relationships, role and change. Employees should complete this form and discuss with their line managers. Line Managers should analyse the findings of the risk assessment with the employee concerned, identify potential risk factors, agree an action plan, take action, record, evaluate and review	Occupational Health	09/06/2023
Worker involvement and engagement – Poster, workplace representative A poster designed to attract workers to participate by becoming involved as Safety Representatives, or Representatives of Employee Safety. This important role is viewed as the KEY to the improvement of Health & Safety at Quarries. This poster has been formulated by the QNJAC to promote Zero Harm in the Workplace.	Leadership and workforce engagement	27/02/2023
Workforce Involvement and engagment - Self-Audit Tool - July 2022 Issue 1 The purpose of this document is to provide a structured framework for organisations to conduct self-audits of site workers involvement and engagement.	Leadership and workforce engagement	27/02/2023
Pedestrian safety and workplace transport - Self Audit Tool - QNJAC - Feb 2022 This guidance has been produced by a working group of QNJAC which comprises of industry experts from varied backgrounds, the Trades Unions and HSE. The purpose of this document is to provide a structured framework to enable organisations to carry out self-audits of transport and pedestrian controls to prove their effectiveness as well as identifying weaknesses in the controls that could lead to serious injury or loss of life. Approximately 20% of all fatalities in the mineral extraction industry involve vehicles or other mobile equipment.	Plant – fixed and mobile	14/02/2022

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