Category: Mining Safety
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Re-Thinking the Toolbox Talk: How Mine Sites are Changing Pre-Shift Safety Briefings to Use Predictive Fatigue Data
The pre-start meeting is the place where shift supervisors discuss the tasks for the day, highlight safety precautions, and issue warnings. This week’s Blog by Fatigue Science discusses its technology that ensures when crew members say they aren’t feeling tired, they are telling the truth – making the job site safer for workers.
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How to implement Lean Maintenance in Mining for Maximum Gain
The right maintenance system for your mine can bring significant cost, time, and energy benefits. This week’s Blog aims to provide you with valuable insights and a roadmap for implementing mining lean maintenance – keep reading to discover how you can optimize maintenance practices and drive success in the mining industry.
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Overhauling Haul Road Maintenance: Finding New Ways to Increase Efficiency and Safety through Haul Truck Customizations
You’ve probably heard the old saying, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ But what about ‘good haul road maintenance keeps risks and expenses at bay?’ While the phrase might be less catchy – the concept is not. This week’s Blog discusses how making a few changes today can boost your ROI and operational…
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Supercharging Survey Teams with Autonomous Cavity Mapping Robots
The work of monitoring and surveying large underground structures is complex and potentially dangerous work, using traditional scanning methods this process can take multiple hours of scanning per pillar per mine. But this week’s Blog from Exyn Technologies discusses how new robotic breakthroughs are making it possible for surveyors to map large underground cavities safely…
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How Drones are Radically Improving Mining Inspections
Drone technology has proven to be transformative for the mining industry improving the precision and quality of data acquisition, but also elevating safety standards and reducing operational costs. This week’s Blog from Flyability take a look one of their indoor drones – the Elios 3 – and shows us how it can help tackle the…
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Revolutionize Your Mine Drys with Saniflo: The Ultimate Efficiency Solution in Above-Floor Plumbing Systems
There are more than 200 mines across Canada today, and all of them have a dry where miners get ready for the day and then clean up to go home. But whatever form the mine’s dry takes, one of the critical components of efficiency on site is a plumbing system to allow miners convenient access…
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Martin Engineering Highlights Safe Conveyor Equipment Design
Conveyors are among the most dynamic and potentially dangerous equipment in bulk handling. This week’s Blog from Martin Engineering discusses how making conveyors safer is a long-term strategy and how a safety-minded design at the planning stage can reduce injuries by engineering hazards out of the system.
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Top Three Environmental Challenges Compromising Sustainable Mining Operations
Known around the globe for its rich natural resources and extensive mining activities, Canada is celebrated as a leader in sustainable mining. Yet, severe weather events can significantly impact mining operations, posing various risks that disrupt productivity, compromise worker safety and lead to expensive delays. This week’s Blog discusses three such scenarios.
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Seven Practical Steps to Build a Culture of Safety and Human Reliability
Talking about building a culture of safety and human reliability is easy. But how many great ideas get talked about and never actually get put into practice? This week’s Blog discusses how to transform good ideas into practical steps that you and your people can apply immediately.
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Maximizing Electrical Safety in Mining
Whether it is from exposed wiring and cables or dust and gases generating fires or explosions, electrical hazards are one of the top five major causes of fatality in surface and underground mining. This week’s Blog from the experts at MELTRIC discusses their solutions that help to minimize electrical dangers at the job site.