Mining

Emergency rescue services for the mining and resource industries
Immediate Assistants is dedicated to providing the highest level of pre-hospital medical and mines rescue services using Internationally standard Remote Area Medical Services including medical personnel, equipment, mobile clinics and emergency vehicles.

Immediate Assistants personnel have been involved in providing medical services to remote mining sites for more than 20 years throughout Australia, New Zealand and more than thirty countries internationally.

Their duties have included staffing medical facilities, being active members of the onsite Emergency Response Teams, responding to both onsite and offsite incidents in 4 x 4 ambulances, crewing evacuation helicopters and rescue vessels.

Remote Area Medical & Mine Rescue Services for the Resources industry, include:
  • Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) Audits and Consultancy
  • Complete On-site and Mobile Clinics
  • Medical Personnel: Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Medics, Mine Rescue Specialists
  • Ambulance Vehicles & Medical Equipment
  • Advanced Life Support Equipment
  • Pre & Post Employment Medical Assessments
  • Drug and Alcohol Testing programs
  • Vaccination & Immunisation Serving/Records
  • Psychological Testing and Review
  • International Medical Repatriation (Medevac)
  • Return to Work Programmes
  • First Aid Courses (Nationally Accredited Training) and Kits
  • Necksafe Acute Spinal Injury Management training
  • EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) Courses
  • Helicopter and HUET Training
  • Safety, Rescue and Extrication Equipment and Training
  • Fly in / Fly out Specialist Staff
If any of these mine rescue services can be of benefit to your organisation, feel free to contact us at 1300 788 559 (Australia) or complete the enquiry form here.