Intelex Case Studies Canadian gold producer Agnico Eagle cuts accident frequency rate in half with help from Intelex EHS Software

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	Canadian gold producer Agnico Eagle cuts accident frequency rate in half with help from Intelex EHS Software Intelex

Canadian gold producer Agnico Eagle cuts accident frequency rate in half with help from Intelex EHS Software

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Mining
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	In 2010, Agnico Eagle began searching for a formal EHS Management System that would work with them to apply best practices in accident management. Their Excel spreadsheets had become inefficient and Agnico wanted to centralize their approach to training, incidents, inspections and other critical business activities. This would simplify the process of individual sites reporting back to corporate on their environmental, health and safety data, and would allow the company to access real-time information and build real-time reports that top management could use to act upon their commitment to accident reduction. Agnico Eagle also needed a system that would accommodate multiple languages across their site locations. Read More
About Customer	Agnico Eagle Mines is a Canadian-based company with nine mines across Canada, Finland and Mexico and exploration and development activities that extend to the United States. Agnico Eagle is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world, with approximately 5,500 permanent and contract employees. Read More
Solution	The leadership demonstrated by Agnico Eagle’s management team was essential to the success of their implementation. Beginning in January 2011, Agnico Eagle assembled an internal team and held a meeting every two weeks to address potential hurdles and ensure things were progressing as planned. Agnico Eagle also led an observation and interaction program in collaboration with employees to ensure good practices in accident management would be followed. Within 5 months, the new software system was up and running at all locations. Following their initial implementation, Agnico Eagle continued to expand their use of the system. The company has grown from six divisions to nine; their Intelex system has grown with them over the years and has been subsequently implemented at each new division. Agnico Eagle has also taken advantage of the Intelex system’s configurability to design and implement their own forms, questionnaires, reports and more. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Mining

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

In 2010, Agnico Eagle began searching for a formal EHS Management System that would work with them to apply best practices in accident management. Their Excel spreadsheets had become inefficient and Agnico wanted to centralize their approach to training, incidents, inspections and other critical business activities. This would simplify the process of individual sites reporting back to corporate on their environmental, health and safety data, and would allow the company to access real-time information and build real-time reports that top management could use to act upon their commitment to accident reduction. Agnico Eagle also needed a system that would accommodate multiple languages across their site locations.

About Customer

Agnico Eagle Mines is a Canadian-based company with nine mines across Canada, Finland and Mexico and exploration and development activities that extend to the United States. Agnico Eagle is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world, with approximately 5,500 permanent and contract employees.

Solution

The leadership demonstrated by Agnico Eagle’s management team was essential to the success of their implementation. Beginning in January 2011, Agnico Eagle assembled an internal team and held a meeting every two weeks to address potential hurdles and ensure things were progressing as planned. Agnico Eagle also led an observation and interaction program in collaboration with employees to ensure good practices in accident management would be followed. Within 5 months, the new software system was up and running at all locations. Following their initial implementation, Agnico Eagle continued to expand their use of the system. The company has grown from six divisions to nine; their Intelex system has grown with them over the years and has been subsequently implemented at each new division. Agnico Eagle has also taken advantage of the Intelex system’s configurability to design and implement their own forms, questionnaires, reports and more.

Impact #1	Reduced Accident Frequency Rate from 3.23 (per 200,000 working hours) at the time of the 2011 implementation to 1.48 in 2014 – the result of good practices in accident management coupled with a system that supports effective incident recording and follow-up.
Impact #2	Increased visibility, streamlined reporting, and improved ease of incident investigation. Every type of incident across all divisions is now stored in one central location.
Impact #3	Streamlined communication across multiple divisions that operate in different languages. The system is now used in four languages across nine divisions in Canada, Finland and Mexico.

Impact #1

Reduced Accident Frequency Rate from 3.23 (per 200,000 working hours) at the time of the 2011 implementation to 1.48 in 2014 – the result of good practices in accident management coupled with a system that supports effective incident recording and follow-up.

Impact #2

Increased visibility, streamlined reporting, and improved ease of incident investigation. Every type of incident across all divisions is now stored in one central location.

Impact #3

Streamlined communication across multiple divisions that operate in different languages. The system is now used in four languages across nine divisions in Canada, Finland and Mexico.

Benefit #1	Reduced Accident Frequency Rate from 3.23 to 1.48
Benefit #2	Recorded a total of 13,015 incidents and 4,177 corrective/preventive actions within Intelex between 2011 and 2014

Benefit #1

Reduced Accident Frequency Rate from 3.23 to 1.48

Benefit #2

Recorded a total of 13,015 incidents and 4,177 corrective/preventive actions within Intelex between 2011 and 2014

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Canadian gold producer Agnico Eagle cuts accident frequency rate in half with help from Intelex EHS Software

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