Category: Mining Safety
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Cordless Cap Lamps Breaking Ground in the Mining Industry
Cordless Cap Lamps from Provix are a crucial part of personal protective equipment (PPE) in underground mining and tunnelling. This week’s Blog takes a look the benefits of its supply of Wisdom Cap Lamps; from cordless lightweight mobility and longer lasting batteries, to being waterproof with an amazing warranty, Wisdom Cap Lamps are an important…
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Vibration Hazards in Mining: Protecting Miners from Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS)
While Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome has many names, the symptoms are all too familiar; tingling and loss of sensation in the fingers, pain and cold sensations, and loss of grip strength. When hands are repeatedly exposed to vibrations, they are at high risk for this injury. This week’s Blog from Superior Glove talks about HVAS…
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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
Ensuring worker safety near machines is a challenging problem. In many cases it is an industry-accepted practice to allow workers to be near moving machinery in order to perform their jobs. Proximity-monitoring and detection solutions have been proven to significantly limit these risks. In this week’s Blog from Provix, we take a look at the…
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Provix Thermal Imaging For Vision Enhancement on Mine Rescue Vehicles and Heavy Equipment – A Case Study
Navigating heavy equipment in darkness, dust, fog, and steam is a challenging task and thermal cameras allow operators to see personnel and hazards, as well as other vehicles and equipment, reducing the likelihood of collision and increasing safety and productivity for everyone. This week’s Blog from Provix, we take a look at its thermal camera…
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Cordless Cap Lamps Breaking Ground in the Mining Industry
Cordless Cap Lamps from Provix are a crucial part of personal protective equipment (PPE) in underground mining and tunnelling. This week’s Blog takes a look the benefits of its supply of Wisdom Cap Lamps; from cordless lightweight mobility and longer lasting batteries, to being waterproof with an amazing warranty, Wisdom Cap Lamps are an important…
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Provix RealTrac CAS Proximity & Asset Track
Ensuring worker safety near machines is a challenging problem and collisions continue to pose a significant threat to the safety of mines. This week’s Blog examines Provix RealTrac; a CAS (Collision Avoidance System) tracking and industrial Wi-Fi multipurpose system for enhancing industrial safety, security, and overall efficiency of mining operations.
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Digital Transformation: Periods of Great Disruption are Times to Discover the Value of Technology
As we enter the 14th month of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees are making their way back to physical mines where health and safety will be of the utmost importance, and where technology will start to plan a bigger role in how they are managed. This week’s blog from SAP systems integration and management consultancy Illumti…
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Workplace Safety North and NORCAT Team Up For a New Initiative
At the beginning of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s (CMHA) 69th annual CMHA Mental Health Week, NORCAT and Workplace Safety North announced a new initiative that will bring more awareness and training to the issues surrounding mental health within the mining sector. This week’s Blog take a look at this initiative and how it is…
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Getting Back to Business Safely: Canadian Mining and COVID-19 Testing
Not only did the unknowns, challenges, and regulations of COVID-19 force Canada’s mining sector to evolve almost immediately, the pandemic also impacted how the industry reacted to and collaborated with its partners, competitors, and counterparts across the globe. This week’s Blog from Precision Biomonitoring shows how rapid and innovative testing tools have given Canadian mining…
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Chute Cameras Enable Haul Truck Drivers to Operate Arc Gates by Remote Control
Provix specializes in enhancing safety and productivity by offering core competencies through video integration, remote operation, proximity detection, and vision enhancement for mining operations. This week’s Blog takes a look how Provix wireless camera technology has been implemented on loading chutes for customers around the world.