53rd Annual Mine Safety Awards

Recipients of the 53rd Annual Mine Safety Awards were celebrated on March 23, 2015 in Victoria.

Open Pit Mine and Quarry Awards

Certificate of Achievement

Certificates of Achievement were presented to the following operations, all of which had a minimum of 15,000 worker hours and an injury-frequency rate of zero:

• Certain Teed Gypsum Canada Inc. – Windermere Mining Operation
• Fraser Pacific Enterprises Inc. – Sumas Shale Quarry
• Plateau Construction Ltd. – Harper Ranch Quarry

Stewart/O'Brian Safety Award

This award was presented to the following operations, all of which logged between 35,000 and 200,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate:

• Baymag Inc.
• I.G. Machine & Fibers Ltd.
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Texada Quarry
• Mainland Sand and Gravel Ltd. – Jamieson Quarry
• Teck Coal Ltd. – Quintette Coal Operations

Edward Prior Award

This award is presented to operations that logged between 200,000 and 1,000,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate:

• Copper Mountain Mine Ltd.
• Thompson Creek Mining Ltd. – Endako Mines

John Ash Award

This award is presented to operations that logged a minimum of 1,000,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate:

• Gibraltar Mines Inc.

Underground Mine Awards

Small Underground Mines Award

• No winner

Large Underground Mines Award

This award is presented to operations with more than 240,000 worker hours (one-third of which were underground) and that had the lowest injury-frequency rate during the calendar year:

• New Gold Inc. – New Afton Mine

Chief Inspector of Mines Award

• No winner

Mine Safety Technology Award

The Mine Safety Technology Award is a leading indicator award created to recognize the development of controls to prevent workplace incidents and to acknowledge a mine’s innovation, using technology to protect the health and safety of its employees. We want to hear how you identified the problem and what you did to fix it, either using brand new technology or through the innovation of existing technology. This is a chance to showcase how your company took innovative steps to make BC’s mining sector safer.

• No winner