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Mines Inspectorate Lotus Notes Data Base. Methane HPI’s. Ombudsman Report 2008.  That The QMI (Qld Mines Inspectorate) Upgrade Its Lotus Notes Database To Enable More Accurate And Standardised Recording Of Requests For Action Below The Level Of Directives.

Mines Inspectorate Lotus Notes Data Base. Methane HPI’s. Ombudsman Report 2008.  That the QMI (Qld Mines Inspectorate) upgrade its Lotus Notes database to enable more accurate and standardised recording of requests for action below the level of directives.

Inspector Smith is being questioned at the Grosvenor Inquiry about the recent upgrades to the data base to better track HPI’s.

This is nothing new at all

Inspector Smith stated that RSHQ (QMI) still uses the now extinct Lotus notes.

Complaints were formally made to the Mines Department by both Mining Companies and the ISHR’s in the early 2000’s about the compatibility of the Lotus Notes Data Base with then modern computer operating systems.

The Departments on line Mining Hazard Database was in the format of Lotus notes and needed a Lotus note program to properly access and utilize as called up under the Act and Regulations

In June 2008 the Queensland Ombudsman Released a Report entitled

The Regulation of Mine Safety in Queensland:  

A Review of the Queensland Mines Inspectorate

Ombudsman Inspectorate 08

On page 20 of the report the following Recommendations

Recommendation 22

 That the QMI upgrade its Lotus Notes database to enable more accurate and standardised recording of requests for action below the level of directives.

IBM announced it was discontinuing the Lotus brand and on March 13, 2013, IBM announced the availability of IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition, replacing prior versions of IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino and marking the end of Lotus as an active brand.

The recommendation by no less than the Ombudsmen recognized back in 2008 the cumbersome and dated applications in Lotus Notes was not working as desired

Did the Mines Department adopt the Recommendation 22 in 2008?

If so is Lotus notes an extinct program still being use?

No matter what program is being used, why are we even faced with the problem of tracking action taken under the level of Directives?

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