Canadian Mining Journal reported that the Province of British Columbia has recognized two coal operations belonging to Vancouver's Teck Resources for their excellence in mine safety. The awards were made at the 54th Annual Provincial Mine Rescue, First Aid and Safety Awards ceremony held on June 6th at Britannia Beach.

The Greenhills operation at Elkford received the John Ash Award for achieving the lowest injury frequency rate for mine with over one million worker-hours in 2008.

The Line Creek operation at Sparwood won the Edward Prior Award for the mine operating between 200,000 and 1 million worker hours with the lowest injury frequency rate. In addition on June 6th the company's Highland Valley Copper operation's 3 person Miners' First Aid Team took first place at the BC mine rescue competition and the Greenhills operation placed first in the surface mine rescue competition. In total, the 2 teams captured five categories.

In other competitions, the Cardinal River operation's team took third place at the Alberta surface mine rescue competition and individuals and teams from the Pogo and Pend Oreille operations placed in the top three categories in five different events at the Central Mine Rescue underground competition held in Idaho.

(Sourced from Canadianminingjournal.com)