EMESRT - Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table

EMESRT is a global ‘safety by design’ initiative established by mining companies to fill the functional performance expectations gap between earth moving equipment users and equipment designers. Formalised in 2006, EMESRT is a global initiative involving major mining companies and remains the ‘common voice’ of the mining industry. EMESRT engages with key mining industry Original Equipment Manufacturers to advance the design of equipment and processes to improve safe operability and maintainability beyond Standards. EMESRT is a respected high-influence global organisation that delivers industry-level understanding of complex health and safety problems. Its effectiveness rests on trusted relationships with OEM’s and third parties. This trust is vital to sustain EMESRT’s relevance and ability to influence the design outcomes. EMESRT interacts by genuine two-way engagement with all stakeholders. Throughout its history, EMESRT, a mining company membership-based entity, has focussed on health and safety problems of significant consequence to the people in the mining industry. 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 A mining industry free of fatalities, injuries and occupational illnesses associated with operating and maintaining earth moving equipment. 𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘 Accelerate development and adoption of leading practice designs to minimise the risk to health and safety through a process of Original Equipment Manufacturer, contractor and user engagement. 𝗞𝗘𝗬 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗦 • Design beyond standards • Balancing engineering and behaviour (human factors) • Recognising the value of task-based design review • Appreciate that the OEM does its best with the end user involved • Open genuine two-way engagement is key