GMRP Health and Safety

  • The Main Construction Manager maintains overall H&S responsibility as the Mine Manager at the Giant Mine Site. To ensure that on-site safety plans are implemented, there is a designated MCM occupational H&S manager who organizes ongoing training and occupational H&S support for managers, supervisors and other employees and subcontractors.
  • In 2013, the Roaster demolition Project team (Parsons, AECOM, Golder, PSPC and CIRNAC) developed a medical monitoring framework to monitor arsenic levels in workers. This framework was accepted by the Workers’ Safety & Compensation Commission.
  • Monitoring includes baseline urinalysis sampling when workers start on site and then subsequent regular urinalysis sampling depending on frequency on site and activities performed (e.g., weekly samples if on-site full-time). Samples are compared against the Action Level of 35 micrograms of arsenic per litre of urine (µg/L).
  • The Project has monitored and reported on arsenic levels in workers since 2014-15..Specific information can be found in the GMRP Annual Report submitted to GMOB.