QNJAC is developed by Industry volunteers who are committed to making our industry a safer place.
Guidance
Contractors
Drilling & Blasting
Geotechnical
Leadership & Workforce Engagement
Occupational Health
Plant, Fix & Mobile
Quarries Legislation
Road Haulage
Self Audit
QNJAC is an abbreviation of the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee.
QNJAC is a tripartite body comprising quarrying and extractive industry representatives of employers; employees; the government regulator (Health & Safety Executive, HSE); professional membership bodies; trade unions; and industry training/educational organisations.
The ‘engine room’ of QNJAC comprises a series of sub-committees and working groups which focus on subject areas or projects, as required. Working groups look at regulations along with innovations, accident and incident reports, best practice, and new technologies to produce updated guidance.
Approved QNJAC output is principally in the form of Guidance documents which, when confirmed by HSE’s Publications Governance Group, are published on the QNJAC website. This guidance along with self-audits can help employers understand where they are in relation to regulations, help create action plans to fill gaps and use the new guidance to apply the regulation in today’s working environment.
QNJAC is made up of volunteers from quarrying and related products industry, everyone involved are passionate about this work and the overall aim, is to help everyone working in this great industry, stay safe.
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Fast facts
QNJAC is the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee
Focused on promoting the health and safety in all sectors of the quarrying and associated industries
Committed to making the industry a safer place, through the raising of training standards and competence
Providing approved guidance documents available to all
Working groups
Dedicated working groups and their chair persons:
Drilling and Blasting
Bob Woolley – EPC Groupe
Geotechnical
Rob Palmer – Tarmac
Mental health and wellbeing
Katherine Evans – Bold as Brass
Contractors
Cath Pickett – Chepstow plant international
Co-Chair is Rob Cross – EPC Groupe
Leadership and workforce engagement
Malcolm Mellow – Imerys
Plant, fixed and mobile
Simon Day – Hanson
QNJAC task groups that are currently active:
Geotechnical Emergency Checklist
Paul Joel – Retired
The use of drones in quarries
Anthony Elgey – Minerals Matter
Contractors
Cath Pickett – Chepstow plant international
Rob Cross – EPC Groupe
Geotechnical Asessment
Rob Palmer – Tarmac
Leadership and workforce engagement
Malcolm Mellow – Imerys
Drilling and Blasting
Bob Woolley – EPC Groupe
QNJAC is a collaboration to improve safety, efficiency, and productivity. It relies on industry expertise to come together for the mutual benefit.
Here are some of the key partners actively involved in QNJAC.
