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Introduction
This guide is one element of a package of resources that encourages the sharing of health
and safety knowledge across the quarrying and quarry products industry. It contains many
ideas and innovations to come from the Quarry Products Association’s annual Health & Safety
Best Practice Awards scheme over the past eight years.
The other key resource – a website at www.safequarry.com – will be available from summer
2006. It is a sister site to the University of Leeds’ www.goodquarry.com and will contain a
fuller selection of entries from the Health & Safety Best Practice Awards and will be updated
with new entries to the scheme in the coming years. It will also feature a database of incident
alerts, toolbox talks and the latest on the industry’s hot topics.
The resources are ideal for training purposes and for Continuing Professional Development
(CPD). We hope that companies of all sizes will find them useful and accessible.
How to use this guide
This guide is a compilation of solutions that companies have applied to minimise and, where
possible, eliminate health and safety risks arising from their daily operations. The ideas
and innovative approaches are often very simple and could readily be applied to a range of
common industry problems.
It is hoped that, by reviewing this guide, particularly those sections relating to your main area
of work, you will recognise solutions that could be applied within your own workplace or they
will generate an idea for an alternative solution.
The guide has been divided into nine sections that reflect the most common areas or
activities requiring particular health and safety consideration. At the beginning of each
section, you will find a summary of the information contained, as well as some facts, figures
and quotes from key figures in the industry. Each section contains entries from the 2005 QPA
Health & Safety Best Practice Awards, as well as those from previous years of the scheme,
which were selected by a group of representatives from aggregate companies of varying
sizes. The chosen entries were deemed still to be relevant examples of strong health and
safety practice. Many have now been widely adopted across the industry.
We have indicated which entries were prize winners, and which have video clips available.
These are accessible on the DVD which you will find in the inside back cover of this document,
or via the safequarry website. To help you locate entries relating to a certain subject, we have
provided a keyword index. You can also search for entries by product type, such as concrete or
asphalt. We welcome your feedback – either via the cards at the back of this document, or the
safequarry website. Your involvement is crucial in making this initiative work and helping the
industry to achieve its ultimate target of zero incidents.