{"id":1196589,"date":"2020-07-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1030142"},"modified":"2020-07-19T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:30:00","slug":"bhps-c-19-tracer-app-may-be-rolled-out-within-chiles-mining-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1196589","title":{"rendered":"BHP\u2019s C-19 Tracer app may be rolled out within Chile\u2019s mining industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHP (ASX, LON: BHP) is working towards massifying its C-19 Tracer app within Chile\u2019s mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latercera.com\/pulso\/noticia\/bhp-conversa-con-ministerio-de-ciencias-por-app-para-prevenir-covid\/OANKOL5CRFB3HDOUJB2CDWPPAY\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local media<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest miner has proposed the idea to the Ministry of Science and to other miners operating in the South American country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>C-19 Tracer is a mobile application that traces when people have had close contact with someone infected with covid-19. At present, it is being used at the company\u2019s mine sites and offices across the world.<\/p>\n<p>BHP has said that since its launch back in May, the app has been downloaded 6,000 times by people working at its Escondida, Cerro Colorado and Spence operations in Chile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook alignright wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v7.0\" nonce=\"ao9GWz7x\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bhpchile\/videos\/608934846419906\/\" data-width=\"500\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bhpchile\/videos\/608934846419906\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bhpchile\/videos\/608934846419906\/\">Activa C-19 Tracer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfEres trabajador o contratista de BHP? Si ya descargaste C-19 Tracer, ahora es momento de que recuerdes siempre activar la aplicaci\u00f3n cuando comience tu d\u00eda de trabajo y desactivarla una vez terminado. As\u00ed te cuidas y tambi\u00e9n cuidas a tus compa\u00f1eros.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bhpchile\/\">BHP<\/a> on Thursday, July 9, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The use of the app complements other measures already implemented at the company\u2019s mines such as social distancing, employee temperature checks and frequent sanitation of equipment, spaces and high-touch areas.<\/p>\n<p>If a BHP worker tests positive for covid-19 at a specific place, others that have checked in at the same location are notified through the app. The safety committee also receives information related to areas that may need urgent sanitization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mobile phone location services and Bluetooth are the tools used to receive information related to the proximity and location of the infected person. To maintain confidentiality, the information is password-protected, encrypted, and deleted after 21 days -unless the law requires otherwise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn no circumstance will the information be used for any other purpose different from the tracing of covid-19 contacts and the application of cleaning procedures against covid-19 at BHP sites,\u201d the miner\u2019s website states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local media report that BHP is proposing the idea of expanding the use of the covid-19 contact tracing app beyond its mine sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,2640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196590,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196589\/revisions\/1196590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}