The Competition, hosted at the Northern Star Resources’ Kanowna Belle Gold Mine, saw twelve teams from across the Goldfields participate in scenarios designed to improve emergency response skills and knowledge.
Scenarios included incident management, theory, first aid, rope rescue, search and rescue, team skills, breathing apparatus skills and fire-fighting.
St Barbara Limited took out the overall honours for Best Team followed by runner up, Norton Gold Fields Ltd. In third place was Evolution Mining.
The other winners include:
Search and Rescue – St Barbara Limited, Leonora Operations
Fire Fighting – Newcrest Mining Limited, Telfer Operations
Rope Rescue – AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd, Sunrise Dam Operations
Breathing Apparatus Skills – Northern Star Resources, Kalgoorlie Operations
Theory – AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd, Sunrise Dam Operations
First Aid – Gold Fields Australia Pty Ltd, Agnew Gold Mine
Team Skills – BHP Billiton Nickel West, Northern Operations
Overall First Aid – Norton Gold Fields Ltd
Overall BA Skills – Norton Gold Fields Ltd
Team Safety – AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd, Sunrise Dam Operations
Best New Captain – Rory McHarrie, Northern Star Resources, Kalgoorlie Operations
Incident Management Scenario – Stasi Capsanis, Northern Star Resources, Kalgoorlie Operations
Theory Individual – Helen Wood, AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd, Sunrise Dam Operations
Best New Team – Northern Star Resources, Kalgoorlie Operations
Best Captain – Wade Leeson, Gold Fields Australia Pty Ltd, St Ives Operations
CME chief executive Reg Howard-Smith said diversity featured strongly amongst the competing teams this year.
“It was great to see a number of mines field team members who had never participated in a competition before,” Mr Howard-Smith said.
“There is no better place to hone the skills required to support successful emergency response preparedness across the sector.
CME congratulates the competing teams, event managers and volunteers who all worked hard to produce a very successful event, and thanks Northern Star Resources Ltd for the use of the Kanowna Belle Gold Mine as the competition venue.
