Centennial brings home THE GOLD

摘要

Centennial Coal's Newstan Colliery was honoured at the NSW Minerals Council Health and Safety Innovation Awards for their purpose-built longwall isolation system. The Centennial Hydraulic Isolation Control System (CHICS) allows repairs and maintenance to be carried out at the longwall face, limiting human exposure to the failure of high pressure fluid system components. In awarding Centennial Coal the NSWMC Health and Safety Innovation of the Year, the judges commented that CHICS was "a major and timely innovation for control of high pressure hydraulic systems, eminently transferable (to other industries)" and represented "a very significant safety improvement".