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January - February 2017 MODERN QUARRYING 7
AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Conveyor safety best practices
A global leader in the advancement of conveyor safety has announced the publication of the
world’s first aggregation of global best practices, dedicated to reducing conveyor risk and
injuries. Modelled after the company’s respected Foundations reference volume now in its
fourth edition, Foundations for Conveyor Safety from Martin Engineering provides an unprec-
edented collection of information assembled specifically to help conveyor system operators
achieve safe production.
To assess the true value of safety, the
book includes ground-breaking method-
ology for calculating the payback from
safety investments, sometimes referred
to as ROS (Return on Safety).
“This work is based on the premise
that the extraction and processing of bulk
materials can be done safely and profit-
ably by applying global best practices for
conveyor safety and design,” says Martin
Engineering chairman Ed Petersen. “The
first step to true productivity is safety; if
a conveyor or and industry is not safe, it
cannot maximise productivity.”
Martin Engineering’s Foundations for
Conveyor Safety edition is a global roundup
of best practices to keep workers safe on or
around belt conveyors.
NewWearCheck people
WearCheck’s oil analysis and reliability solutions services, has boosted its capacity with the
recent appointment of three professionals:
Paul Nhlapo has been
promoted to handle business
development and technical
support for WearCheck
Middelburg and the
surrounding areas.
Jacoba Schwartz is
WearCheck’s new agent in
Kathu, covering the areas from
Kuruman to Upington and
surrounds, and develops sales,
processes quotations and
collects filled sample bottles to
dispatch to the laboratory.
Jacques Blignaut is the new
chemist in WearCheck’s Pinetown
laboratory. The capacity for this
position has developed as the
laboratory becomes busier due
to the company’s expansion
around Africa. Blignaut holds a
Masters Degree in Chemistry, and
will be assisting with research
and development work for the
company.