Tag: 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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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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Safe Workplaces for All Program Addresses Workplace Harassment in Canada’s Mining Industry
Everyone deserves to work in a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment, yet sexual harassment and violence still occur in the mining workplace. A new initiative at the Mining Industry Human Resources Council looks to change that. This week’s Blog by MiHR discusses its Safe Workplaces for All education program and how it is working to…
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Maximizing Electrical Safety and Compliance 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 alternate solutions to the standard G-GC circuitry to help minimize electrical dangers at…
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Four Tips to Select Effective Screen Media for Your Operation
With the growing global demand for raw materials, it is increasingly important to evaluate your mining operation’s equipment is running efficiently, but also just as important to evaluate you screen media to ensure you are using the best tools for the job. This week’s Blog from Haver & Boecker Niagara talks about the four things…
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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.
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Seven Daily Steps to Optimize Vibrating Screen Performance
Vibrating screens are engineered for hard work, but these machines can take a beating and they cannot run indefinitely without maintenance. This week’s Blog from Haver & Boecker Niagara provides seven daily steps that will get the most out of your vibrating screens for the long haul.
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Between the Road and the Load: Calculate True Capacity Before Buying Your Next Trailer
A trailer is never just a trailer. It can be manufactured to many different specifications, with multiple raw material options, dozens of load and geographical considerations, various top speed requirements, and hundreds of possible axle configurations coming into play. This week’s Blog from Talbert Manufacturing takes a deep dive into how to best calculate the…
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Arc Flash Safety in Mining
Arc Flash Safety in Mining The single largest category of electrical injuries in the mining industry is non-contact electrical burns caused by arc flash events, according to an investigation conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) over 11 years. Even though this study found that the majority of mining electrical injuries…