Chris Enright is the author of the Mine Rescue Manual: A Comprehensive Guide for Mine Rescue Team Members, a licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado, a lieutenant with a rural volunteer fire department outside of Denver and the owner and proprietor of Aperture Natural Resources LLC (www.aperturenaturalresources.com). He has worked in public safety for nine years, initially with a mine rescue team at the Colorado School of Mines, then with an ambulance service serving a suburban community, and then with a fire department covering a large rural and mountainous area. He holds a BSc in Geological Engineering and MSc in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is also certified as a firefighter (both structural and wildland), hazardous materials response, traffic incident management, technical rope rescue, emergency medical care, and wilderness emergency response.
How well an organization plans for emergencies that may occur at remote locations can be the dividing line between tragedy and success story, whether an employee’s life is saved or lost, or if an operation and capital infrastructure is lost due to an incident.
