StemSafe Company Profile
Established in 2006, StemSafe’s innovative and patented design products and services provide safer, smarter stemming solutions for blast preparation personnel and on-bench and access dust suppression to the drill and blast and construction industry sectors.
Both founding company directors, Todd Woolley and Andrew Wheeler, have been shot firers for 20+ years, and recognise the safety and efficiency gains when using automated stemming and stemming/water delivery equipment. Seeing an opportunity to provide this as a service to the mining, quarrying and construction industries – StemSafe was started to help ensure safety and quality in the drill and blast sector.
StemSafe are passionate about research and development, and continue to work towards achieving an efficient, productive and safe working environment for both operator and industry.
Andrew Wheeler
Business Development
Andrew’s mining career started in 1996, working with hard rock gold in north west Queensland, before entering into drill and blast operations the following year when he obtained his Shotfirer’s Licence. His work mainly involved shotfiring and drilling and blasting planning for contracting companies throughout Queensland, in both coal and hard rock mining, and included exposure to various blasting/initiating system applications and electronic detonator trialling and implementation.
Andrew was one of the first shotfirers in Australia to attain an Electronic Detonation endorsement on his Shotfirer’s Licence, and a decade after his mining career began – he founded StemSafe with Todd. Andrew’s responsibilities include overseeing design and manufacture, commercialisation/marketing and financing of StemSafe’s specialised product suite. His focus is fixed firmly on continuous business improvement and commercialisation of new products for the drill and blast industry.