The role of human factors and ergonomics in mining emergency management: three case studies

Horberry, Tim; Xiao, Tania; Fuller, Ruth; Cliff, David

doi:10.1504/ijhfe.2013.057610

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“…The emergency rescue plan was not more than a paper document that had not been properly tested, most mines had not formally identified what information would be necessary for an emergency, absence of training carried out in emergency preparedness and response especially in the management of incidents and there was no industry-wide competency standard for control room operators (42). There had been guidelines and requirements associated with coal mine emergency rescue work, however, there is no sound system, solely part of it.…”

Section: Lack Of Emergency Rescue Planmentioning

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Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information Technology in Coal Mining: Review

Yang

Birhane

Geng

2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: Though the introduction of modern safer underground coal mining methods and automation, mine accidents still cause loss of lives, time, and money. This paper aims to analyze in detail the causes of safety and environmental issues in the coal mining industry, as well as the impact of IoT on coal mining.Method: A systematic review was conducted. A comprehensive search involving Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Science direct databases was conducted using a combination of the following keywords: mining accidents, coal mining injuries, human error in mining, intelligent mining, etc. The inclusion criteria: (1) the study was published between January 2000 and June 2020; (2) the participants were coal mining employees/coal mining accidents and accidents were work-related; (3) the study focused on identifying causes of coal mining safety issues or accidents, factors that influence unsafe behaviors and accidents in coal mining, coal mining rescue management, coal mining rescue plan, coal mining environmental impact, mining information technology, intelligent mining; (4) the study was published in a refereed journal; (5) the study was written in English. In this paper, articles were retained if they were original studies.Results: A total of 59 papers were reviewed in detail. Safety issues in coal mining and the impact of IoT were identified and categorized into three main factors: general safety issues, environmental factors, and mining information technology. Recently, the coal mines had become mechanized and automated leading to improved safety, productivity, and cost. However, Human factors such as lack of appropriate skill, lack of experience, perceptual error, and unsafe behaviors, as well as lack of detailed emergency rescue plan were the leading causes of coal mining injuries. Furthermore, abandoned mining sites' carbon emission is greater than active sites.Conclusion: The study recommends further research to be conducted using different psychological models to understand human factors and design effective safety management systems. And the environmental impact of abandoned mining sites should be given due attention.

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Section: Lack Of Emergency Rescue Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information Technology in Coal Mining: Review

Yang

Birhane

Geng

2021

Front. Public Health

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“…Although mining industry is considered slower in adaption of modern technology (Tiffany et al 2019) still ergonomics studies have been conducted in past due to excessive mass maneuvering in affiliated with mining. Researchers have worked on effect of whole body vibrations in mining machinery, designing of seats, skeletal issues related to mining machinery (VILLAGE et al, 1989;McPhee, 2004;Kumar, 2004;Gunaselvam & van Niekerk, 2005;Eger et al, 2008;Howard et al, 2009;Smets et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2012;Rahimdel et al, 2017); usage of smart devices to detect whole body vibrations , emergency management (Horberry et al, 2013); and vibration exposure of drill operators (Chaudhary et al, 2015a, b). Majority of the work in application of ergonomics majorly cover whole body vibrations and falls in last two decades.…”

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confidence: 99%

Archives of Mining Sciences

Rehman

Emad

Khan

2020

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Stemming plugs are one of the widely used accessory in surface mining operations. Stemming plugs assist conventional stemming material in gas retention and help in better fragmentation and explosive utilization. Effective use of the stemming plugs results in economic benefits and enhance the efficacy of the project. Economic and productive viability of stemming plugs have been conducted in depth by different researchers. Addition of stemming plugs to a new system requires ergonomic challenges for operators conducting drilling and blasting operation. Induction of a newer product in already established system is subject to overall positive feedback. This work investigates ergonomics of three different stemming plugs introduced to a limestone quarry in Pakistan. The stemming plugs were evaluated based on extra time needed, workers feedback, failures during operation, recovery time after failure and number of extra equipment required to carry out the operation. Points based matrix was established with likeliness of each plug and based on overall scores stemming plug 1 was most acceptable followed by stemming plug 3. Stemming plug 2 was disliked by operation and did not reach the level of acceptability of operators. This work will help stemming plug making industry in adapting to best practices by incorporating ergonomics of plugs in designing. Literature shows no previous work on ergonomics of stemming plugs.

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“…Some studies analyze the role of human factors and ergonomics in disaster management based on the importance of information management, e.g., Horberry et al [2013] studied the role of human factors in mining emergency management related collection and management of the information during underground coal mining emergencies from a humancentered perspective. They also focus on decisionmaking deficiencies in incident management teams, and the final one examines organizational issues related to mining control rooms during emergencies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pilot Implementation of Human-Centered Model in Disaster Management: A Report From Landslides Area in Semarang City

Putranto

Susanto

2017

IJG

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Semarang has a high potential of landslides occurrences in its almost area that should be noted by the stakeholders. Consider this fact, human as the part of the system should be used as a center of the disaster management system to reduce the risk caused by the disaster. An adapted model of human factor toolkits is developed to represent a specific phase of human-centered disaster management. This model presents four phases including major disaster scenario, human error analysis, safety critical task and performance influence factors (PIFs). As the preliminary implementation, this study takes the pilot implementation of each phase of the model to examine the reliability of the concept in the landslide cases, especially in Semarang city. The result shows that there is quite a high deviation between expected and observed behavior of the community and the government institution regarding the awareness states of the system.

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The role of human factors and ergonomics in mining emergency management: three case studies

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information Technology in Coal Mining: Review

Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information Technology in Coal Mining: Review

Archives of Mining Sciences

Pilot Implementation of Human-Centered Model in Disaster Management: A Report From Landslides Area in Semarang City

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