Principles for selecting, training and maintaining skills for safe work of personnel for mining industry enterprises

Abstract

Purpose. To reduce the risks of accidents and injuries on the basis of vocational selection of the stuff for work in the mining industry, as well as training and maintaining their skills of safe work. Methodology. To solve the problems considered in the article, the following were used: analysis of information from scientific and technical sources on the influence of psychophysiological factors on occupational injuries; correlation-regression analysis of statistical data on occupational injuries; experimental research on efficiency of miners work in laboratory and mine conditions at various physical activities. Findings. The article substantiates the role and necessity of conducting professional psychophysiological selection procedures for mining workers, monitoring their functional state. The methodology of professional psychophysiological selection procedures, innovative training and behavioral audit is proposed in order to increase the injury protection of workers. Innovative ways of training and maintaining the safe working skills of miners are explored. The role of modern gadgets with installed applications for assessing the severity of physical work in terms of heart rate is investigated. Originality. The novelty of this study is to substantiate a comprehensive approach to the preventive precautions against occupational injuries in the mining industry at the stages of personnel selection, training and further control of the consequences of production activities. Practical value. Principles are developed for selecting, training, and maintaining skills for the safe work of personnel for the mining industry.

Occupational Diseases in Industrial Enterprises: Causes, Types and Principles of Prevention

“…For this, a preflight or pre-duty medical examination is conducted. These can be included in the type of regular medical examination [3].…”

“…• The preventive direction of occupational pathology is carried out first of all through periodical medical examinations of persons working in harmful and unfavourable working conditions. Initial periodic medical examinations are aimed at not employing persons who have one or another change in the organs and systems of the body and are not allowed to work under the influence of harmful occupational factors [1]. Such examinations are primarily aimed at the prevention of occupational diseases and rational employment, taking into account the health of the worker entering the production.…”

“…As labour protection includes a complex of laws, socio-economic, organizational, technical, hygienic, and preventive measures aimed at ensuring the human ability to work, health and safety in the work process, it means that citizens' labour protection in all aspects of the conditions for making it should be created at the level of demand [1,2]. Measures to reduce occupational diseases in industrial enterprises, preparation or purchase of devices and devices protecting workers from various harmful substances, installation of air exchange and air conditioning systems, reequipment of old types, methods of general air exchange instead of blocking the place where substances are separated, the aspiration method, the use of improved machines, the installation of devices that monitor the condition and composition of the air, etc.…”

“…Measures to reduce occupational diseases in industrial enterprises, preparation or purchase of devices and devices protecting workers from various harmful substances, installation of air exchange and air conditioning systems, reequipment of old types, methods of general air exchange instead of blocking the place where substances are separated, the aspiration method, the use of improved machines, the installation of devices that monitor the condition and composition of the air, etc. are examples [3,4,5].…”

Improvement of Working Conditions of Mining Workers by Reducing Nitrogen Oxide Emissions during Blasting Operations

“…A lot of academic specialists have studied the risk-based approach to the exploitation of hazardous production facilities and have proposed the use of methods of spatial risk analysis [34] and the concept of "Vision Zero" [35]. The dependence of the safety of blasting operations and production efficiency and economic indicators of the products is unconditional [36]. Although the use of organizational methods to reduce occupational injuries is effective, it requires significant economic costs [37], the concentration of nitrogen oxide emissions does not decrease and situations associated with abrupt changes in environmental factors are not excluded, and as a result, additional risks increase.…”