Mining AI Agents,
Monitored for Safety

1. Target

   Fleet-management and OT command channels for autonomous haul trucks, drills, trains and loaders.

2. Trigger

   Any tool call that would issue, modify or resume a machine mission or command.

3. Action — enforced

   Command is blocked at the gateway; agent may draft mission changes for the autonomy supervisor’s console.

4. Human override

   Autonomy supervisor executes from the FMS console under their own credentials; the agent path stays read-only.

Logged evidenceattempted command · machine id · agent and session ids · gateway verdict · timestamp

1. Target

   Safety answers — isolation, lockout, confined-space entry, ground control and emergency response.

2. Trigger

   Safety intent with no matching controlled procedure at the current effective revision, in any language.

3. Action — enforced

   Agent refuses to paraphrase, serves the controlled procedure verbatim with revision id, and alerts the site safety office.

4. Human override

   Site safety manager publishes or remaps the controlled document; no ad-hoc textual release.

Logged evidencequery · procedure id and revision · language served · serve or refuse outcome · timestamp

1. Target

   Exploration results, assay databases, resource models and drafts feeding ASX / JORC announcements.

2. Trigger

   Output channel or recipient outside the named insider list for that project.

3. Action — enforced

   Response is denied and reported to the disclosure officer; agent may quote only published announcements.

4. Human override

   None — cannot be overridden in session

Logged evidencerequested dataset · requester identity · insider-list check result · denial id · timestamp

1. Target

   Inbound documents — contractor reports, site inspections, invoices, lab certificates and vendor manuals.

2. Trigger

   Directive or tool-steering content detected inside any retrieved or uploaded document.

3. Action — enforced

   Document is handled as inert data; embedded directives are stripped, quarantined and reported, never executed.

4. Human override

   None — cannot be overridden in session

Logged evidencedocument hash · contractor id · detected directive · quarantine id · timestamp

1. Target

   Seismic, ground-movement, tailings and slope-stability monitoring feeds and their shift summaries.

2. Trigger

   Summarisation or triage that lowers an alert’s severity or omits it from handover.

3. Action — enforced

   Alert keeps its source severity and routes to the geotechnical engineer; agent may add context, never dispositions.

4. Human override

   Geotechnical engineer closes the alert in the monitoring system with recorded rationale.

Logged evidencealert id · sensor source · original severity · escalation recipient · acknowledgement timestamp

1. Target

   External-facing text stating tonnages, grades, resources or reserves for any tenement.

2. Trigger

   Draft contains JORC-style figures without a competent person’s recorded attribution and consent.

3. Action — enforced

   Draft is held from every external channel; agent may compile internal workings marked not-for-release.

4. Human override

   Named competent person signs off in the disclosure workflow before any release.

Logged evidencedraft hash · figures quoted · competent person named · consent record · release state · timestamp

1. Target

   Environmental monitoring — tailings, water discharge, dust and emissions data feeding regulator reports.

2. Trigger

   Drafted value diverges from the instrument-of-record reading or an exceedance is omitted.

3. Action — enforced

   Submission is blocked; agent must quote instrument values verbatim and flag every exceedance to the environment lead.

4. Human override

   Environmental superintendent corrects data at the source historian; the report then regenerates.

Logged evidencereport id · instrument values · drafted values · exceedance flags · submitter identity · timestamp

1. Target

   Autonomy boundaries, road closures, speed limits and operating modes in the fleet-management system.

2. Trigger

   Software zone or mode change lacking a matching field confirmation from the ground crew.

3. Action — enforced

   Change stays staged and machines hold current boundaries; agent may schedule the field-verification task.

4. Human override

   Mine controller releases the change after the documented field-verification checklist is complete.

Logged evidencezone delta · requesting identity · field confirmation record · releasing identity · effective timestamp

1. Target

   Command queues and mission buffers spanning network outages, restarts and shift changes.

2. Trigger

   Network restore detected with commands queued before the outage still awaiting execution.

3. Action — enforced

   Queued commands are invalidated, never replayed; agent requests fresh missions reflecting current ground state.

4. Human override

   Autonomy supervisor re-issues each mission manually after reviewing current site state.

Logged evidenceoutage window · invalidated command ids · machine states at restore · reissue identity · timestamp

1. Target

   Outbound communications to Traditional Owners, community stakeholders and heritage regulators.

2. Trigger

   Draft referencing cultural heritage, consent or agreement matters staged for external send.

3. Action — enforced

   Send is held; agent may prepare background material for the heritage and community team’s review.

4. Human override

   Heritage and communities manager sends after consultation with the recognised cultural authority.

Logged evidencedraft hash · recipient · consultation record · approving identity · send timestamp