Category: Mining Safety
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Innovative Network Capabilities Lead to History-Making Mining Operations
With the increasing quantity of mining sites around the world comes the added risk of disasters. This week’s blog from Rajant looks at their wireless network solution, and how it can enhance innovative and advanced technological capabilities, and ensure incidents can be investigated rapidly and effectively – not only powering robotics, drones, and mobile equipment…
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Provix: Improving Visibility at the Mine Site with Thermal Cameras
Navigating heavy equipment in darkness, dust, fog, rain, snow, and steam is a challenging task, and equipment lights can be distorted causing additional visual distraction. This week’s Blog from Provix Inc. takes a look at how their thermal camera solutions can make your mine site safer.
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Conveyor Technology: Designing For the Future by Innovating the Present
Higher production demands across all bulk handling segments require increased efficiency at the lowest cost of operation, in the safest and most effective manner possible. This week’s Blog from R. Todd Swinderman takes a deep dive into everything you need to know about modern chute and conveyor designs and improving productivity for the future.
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Provix: Improving Visibility at the Mine Site with Thermal Cameras
Navigating heavy equipment in darkness, dust, fog, rain, snow, and steam is a challenging task, and wquipment lights can be distorted causing additional visual distraction. This week’s Blog from Provix Inc. takes a look at how their thermal camera solutions can make your mine site safer.
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Cordless Cap Lamps Breaking Ground in the Mining Industry
Written by Karly Winfield, Technical sales consultant at Provix Inc. Cordless Cap Lamps from Provix are a crucial part of personal protective equipment (PPE) in underground mining and tunnelling. The Wisdom Cap lamps act as an important visual aid for miners where darkness prevails. Conventional cap lamps utilize a battery pack that is worn…
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Provix RealTrac: CAS Tracking and Industrial Wi-Fi Multipurpose System for Enhancing Industrial Safety, Security, and Overall Efficiency of Mining Operations
Although mine worker fatalities and fatality incidence rates in North America are trending downwards, collisions still pose a significant threat to the safety of mines. This week’s Blog from Provix Inc. takes a look at their solutions that aim to keep workers safe from unnecessary workplace accidents.
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How to Choose the Right Safety Technology for Off-Road Vehicles
Worksites can be dangerous places. The potential for deaths and injuries caused by moving plant machinery and equipment should not be underestimated. This week’s blog from Warren Di Marco, a vehicle safety expert at Brigade Electronics Canada, discusses the most appropriate safety devices and what to consider when choosing vehicle safety technology for off-road vehicles.
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Recent Cyber Incidents
Cybercrime is a leading problem that many businesses have to face, some faster than they had planned. And the mining industry is not immune. This week’s Blog takes a look at the issue and explains the extreme importance of having a cyber program in place for your operations.
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Active versus Passive Safety Systems for Heavy Equipment
While cameras have become a mainstay in both vehicles and equipment, Provix has introduced a system that provides an additional safety measure by adding radar to detect any object in the radar field of view. This week’s Blog takes a look at Provix’s latest technology and how it makes your worksite safer.
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Things to Know Before Choosing Impact-Resistant Hand Protection for Your Team
Miners work with their hands and want to be sure their ‘tools’ are kept as safe as possible, leaving each day with as many fingers as they arrived with. This week’s Blog from Superior Glove explores what you need to consider when choosing the best impact-resistant hand protection for your team.