Community working group on sulphur dust at Energy Resources of Australia
In early August 2005 a complaint was made to NT Worksafe (Northern Territory Occupational Health & Safety Regulatory Agency) by the owner of a neighbouring property adjacent to ERA' s sulphur stockpile facility in Darwin. The complaint concerned sulphur dust being blown from ERA’s stockpile onto the neighbouring property.
Following the receipt of the complaint a meeting was held with the neighbour, NT Worksafe and ERA representatives to discuss the issue. ERA immediately commenced more frequent clean-up of the sulphur to minimise the amount of dust created during the daily truck loading operations.
ERA set up a working group to develop a set of options for the ongoing containment of wind borne sulphur dust from the Darwin sulphur storage facility in future years.
It is believed that that the introduction of the measures developed by the working group will minimise the amount of dust generated at the Darwin stockpile facility. This approach has been discussed with NT Worksafe representatives and agreed to by them. These measures will be in place for the next shipment which is due in May 2006. ERA will be closely liaising with all stakeholders to keep them advised of these.
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