Meandu Mine: safety training exercise
Posted on 10-Jan-2012
The AGL Action Rescue helicopter headed out to Meandu mine near Nanango recently to participate in a training exercise with Thiess' on site safety team. It's part of the Service's commitment to working with the community as Brent Chamberlain, Chief Pilot explained:
“These training exercises are invaluable in giving our crews experience in operating in the potentially challenging environment of a mining operation. It means that if we’re tasked in an emergency we know what to expect – and they do too. We are able to identify safe landing sites, and the Thiess safety team get hands on experience of how they might assist us in conducting a safe retrieval in an emergency.
“The employees of Thiess are as much a part of our community as the motorists, sailors and climbers who we rescue every day. Exercises like this give us exposure and recognition which is crucial for a service which relies on fundraising to keep flying."
All costs associated with the exercise were met by Theiss
Thiess' safety team work with the AGL Action Rescue crew loading the "casualty" into the chopper
Aaron Regan (Pilot), Scott Reeman and Shannon Gardner (Crewmen), and Santosh Broom (paramedic) with the Meandu mine safety team
