Grosvenor Mine is the Voldemort of the 2022 Qld Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference. Grosvenor must not be named.
The name Grosvenor has become the Voldemort of the Qld Mining Safety Conference that started yesterday on the Gold Coast.
The name/word Grosvenor does not appear anywhere in the 4 day program for speeches and papers. Not once.
https://www.qmihsconference.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Program-QMIHSC-2022-V14.pdf
Not even for the presentation by Grosvenor Inquiry Board Member Andrew Clough on Wednesday, not in the Title or what function Mr Clough performed
The Report of the Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry
Andrew Clough, Retired Mining Professional
Not by politicians, not by officers of RSHQ and the Inspectorate, not by Industry, Consultants or Simtars and certainly not by Anglo.
Grosvenor “The Mine that Must Not Be Named”
You would be forgiven for thinking this is not the first safety and health conference in 3 years and that the Grosvenor Explosion had never happened and that there was no Ministerial Board of Inquiry,
Also no mention that Five underground coal mining contract workers suffered horrifically with third degree burns, barely survived and had their lives forever changed for the worse.
You would think that there are no work mates, first responders and medical practitioners who have also not returned to work due to PTSD.
How and Why is this possible?
Is it because Anglo are the major conference sponsor and no one wants to upset the poor sensitive corporate souls at Anglo?
How can this be at what is supposed to be the “an initiative to promote health and safety in the Queensland mining industry”.
But why am I really that surprised.
RSHQ made the conscious decision not to call these Inspectors to the stand to give evidence at the Grosvenor Inquiry; whether they prepared an official statement or not.
- The Inspectors who routinely Inspected Grosvenor Mine. This includes the now Deputy Chief Inspector.
- Neither of the two Inspectors who responded and attended Grosvenor Mine in the immediate aftermath, interacted with Senior Site and Corporate Management and issued the Directive for workers not to return underground.
Hopefully at least someone attending the Conference may ask the Conference Chair, Peter Newman (CIOCM), or Kate Du Preez (Commissioner RSHQ) or Mark Stone (CEO RSHQ) why the name Grosvenor is a Voldemort like taboo; and why the said Inspectors never gave evidence at the Grosvenor Inquiry.
All I can say is the apparent whitewashing of Grosvenor and the recent appalling safety record of the Queensland Coal Industry at the official Safety and Health Conference is an absolute disgrace.
It is an insult to those that have lost their lives in the last 3 years, the workers at Grosvenor, their family and friends.
