Human factors methods to design safer mobile mining equipment

Cooke, Tristan

doi:10.14264/uql.2015.376

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“…Access and egress have historically been high-risk tasks related to mobile machinery; Leskinen et al (2002) noted that nearly 50% of incidents associated with such machinery occurs during access and egress, mainly to and from the operator’s cabin. More recently, Cooke (2015) similarly found that a large number of incidents were linked to access and egress in an analysis of U.S. and Australian incident data.…”

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“…The example that we explore in this article is getting into and out of an operator's cabin in a bulldozer. A comparatively large number of injuries occur during these activities, partly because of the inadequate design of access and egress facilities on the equipment (Cooke, 2015). Part of this issue stems from mining equipment generally being designed from an engineering or technical perspective, often with little thought given to how humans interact with the equipment (Horberry & Lynas, 2012).…”

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“…The minerals industry continues to be overrepresented in global fatality and injury statistics (Cooke, 2015; National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, 2008; Simpson, Horberry, & Joy, 2009). Many of these incidents involve mobile mining equipment, such as haul trucks, bulldozers, and excavators (Cooke, 2015; Horberry & Cooke, 2012). The example that we explore in this article is getting into and out of an operator’s cabin in a bulldozer.…”

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Improving Mining Equipment Safety Through Human-Centered Design

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The need for human-centered design in the mining industry to help develop safe and fit-for-purpose equipment is first described. A tool that was specifically developed for mobile mining equipment by the authors and colleagues is introduced; it combines the application of participatory ergonomics, qualitative risk management, and safe design. A case study using this tool for mobile mining equipment access and egress is then presented. The case study shows that focusing on end users and their tasks by means of a structured, human-centered process can help to produce safer redesigns of mining equipment.

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“…Critical event management (e.g. Cooke, 2014;ICMM, 2015b) 2. Significant task, equipment, and work systems design or (re)design (e.g.…”

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“…The design strategies were elaborated using hazard to design layering, an extension of a practice applied by Cooke (2014).…”

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Human-Centered Safe Design of Mining Equipment

Horberry

Burgess-Limerick

Cooke

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Human-centered safe design is an increasingly influential approach in mining and other high-hazard work domains in part due to a growing recognition of the contribution of design to occupational safety. Human- centered safe design aims to eliminate workplace hazards by systematically involving end-users in the design of equipment. In this paper, the need for human-centered safe design work in the minerals industry is first introduced and a method previously developed by the authors and colleagues is presented. This human-centered safe design method is a task-based, participatory ergonomics, risk management approach that focuses on mining equipment operators and maintainers. A case study follows which demonstrates that focusing on end-users and their tasks by means of a structured user-centered process can help produce fit- for-purpose equipment for the mining industry.

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Human factors methods to design safer mobile mining equipment

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Improving Mining Equipment Safety Through Human-Centered Design

Improving Mining Equipment Safety Through Human-Centered Design

Good work design: strategies to embed human-centred design in organisations

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