Mine Electrical Safety Association Mining electrical safety.

Program 2015 – Presentations

• TUESDAY 7th 2015

  Mine and Safety – Queensland Statistics Lionel Smith Department Natural Resources and Mines

  Arc Flash CAT 0 Electric Mining Shovel Alan Mason AME Pty Ltd

  High Voltage Auditing Neville Gersch Welcon Technologies

  Earth Fault & Earth Leakage Protection in Multi-Level VSI-PWM Medium Voltage VSDs – A standards intent perspective: Residual Voltage versus Residual Current Detection Charl Kleinhans Siemens

  Earthing of Generators on Minesites Bernard Gittins NSW Trade & Investment

  Learn to understand, minimise and prevent harmful effects of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) produced by LED lighting Retrofits Andrew Orkin Coolon LED Lighting

  Best Practice for Oil filled Switches Peter Rhodes HVS

  High Voltage Cable Nitrogen Purging Jeff Ward Ward Operations

  A Fresh Look at Earth Continuity, Safety & AS/NZS 2081 Compliance Terry Brown Ampcontrol

  Lightning Committee Updates /Report Peter Herbert

  WEDNESDAY 8th July 2015

  SIL For Real – Evaluating the Impact of Functional Safety Design Heath Raftery ResTech

  Functional Safety Programme Lyn Fernie & Shane Higgins HIMA Australia

  Designing for Life – Whole of Life Planning in Earthing System Design Stephen Palmer Safearth Consulting

  Arc Flash Hazard Reduction by Fault Clearance Acceleration Mynard Steyn Present Group

  Lightning Protection for Large Industrial Plants (Case Study) Robert Kane Welcon Technologies

  Use of Plastic Metal in Underground Coal Mines for Minor Repair of Flameproof Equipment Bipin Parmar Simtars

  The Value of Centralised Data in Mining Operations; – and some early statistics for mining companies. Randall Makin Waterline Projects

  A New Approach to Mining Earth Leakage Protection with Medium Voltage Drives Tino Wymann ABB Australia