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  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,696 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2022

China suffers the worst coal mine disasters in the world. Lots of miners lose their lives or suffer occupational injury. Fortunately, China is developing vigorously intelligent coal mining, which is the combination of traditional coal mining and the...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,203 Views
7 Pages

The aim of this article is to present priority themes covered by the Health and Safety training programs of the Greek and European mining industry during the last decade. Mining is considered as an industry presenting high occupational risks. The Int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
906 Views
16 Pages

31 May 2025

This study focuses on the importance of the real-time monitoring of bolt loads in roadways affected by high-intensity mining and the limitations of conventional monitoring methods. Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors were embedded and encapsulated in r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,413 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2023

With the demand for green mining in coal mines, filling mining is becoming more and more popular, resulting in more complex production systems and more potential safety hazards. Therefore, it is very important to evaluate the safety of filling mining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,207 Views
22 Pages

1 April 2022

In order to derive safety engagement factors in the workplace and analyze the characteristics of the factors, we collected literature data to be analyzed by a systematic literature review and text mining analysis. We used safety, industrial, occupati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
974 Views
15 Pages

Management Commitment to Compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Laws and Regulations in Polish Rock Mining Companies

  • Paweł Strzałkowski,
  • Paweł Bęś,
  • Magdalena Sitarska,
  • Justyna Woźniak,
  • Katarzyna Pactwa,
  • Żaklina Konopacka and
  • Kamila Niemiec

16 October 2025

Compliance with occupational safety and health (OSH) standards and safe employee behaviour largely depend on the level of management’s commitment to respecting occupational safety and health laws and regulations. A safe work environment is one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,328 Views
11 Pages

The Roof Safety under Large Mining Height Working Face: A Numerical and Theoretical Study

  • Xiaofang Wo,
  • Guichen Li,
  • Jinghua Li,
  • Sen Yang,
  • Zhongcheng Lu,
  • Haoran Hao and
  • Yuantian Sun

27 September 2022

As an important technology of thick coal seam mining, fully mechanized mining with a large mining height has high mining efficiency. In order to study the roof safety control of large mining height working face, the 122106 working face of Caojiatan c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,677 Views
24 Pages

Fuzzy Risk-Based Maintenance Strategy with Safety Considerations for the Mining Industry

  • Agnieszka Tubis,
  • Sylwia Werbińska-Wojciechowska,
  • Pawel Sliwinski and
  • Radoslaw Zimroz

7 January 2022

Enterprises today are increasingly seeking maintenance management strategies to ensure that their machines run faultlessly. This problem is particularly relevant in the mining sector, due to the demanding working conditions of underground mines and m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
12,543 Views
13 Pages

The current advancement of robotics, especially in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), leads to a prominent combination between the mining industry and connected-embedded technologies. This progress has arisen in the form of state-of-the-art automated gian...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,786 Views
35 Pages

Low-Cost Sensors Technologies for Monitoring Sustainability and Safety Issues in Mining Activities: Advances, Gaps, and Future Directions in the Digitalization for Smart Mining

  • Carlos Cacciuttolo,
  • Valentina Guzmán,
  • Patricio Catriñir,
  • Edison Atencio,
  • Seyedmilad Komarizadehasl and
  • Jose Antonio Lozano-Galant

1 August 2023

Nowadays, monitoring aspects related to sustainability and safety in mining activities worldwide are a priority, to mitigate socio-environmental impacts, promote efficient use of water, reduce carbon footprint, use renewable energies, reduce mine was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,038 Views
16 Pages

Safety and Protection Measures of Underground Non-Coal Mines with Mining Depth over 800 m: A Case Study in Shandong, China

  • Li Cheng,
  • Qinzheng Wu,
  • Haotian Li,
  • Kexu Chen,
  • Chunlong Wang,
  • Xingquan Liu,
  • Xuelong Li and
  • Jingjing Meng

17 October 2022

With the increase in mining depth, the risk of ground pressure disasters in yellow gold mines is becoming more and more serious. This paper carries out a borehole test for the pressure behavior in a non-coal mining area with a mining depth of more th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,251 Views
34 Pages

Innovative Technologies to Improve Occupational Safety in Mining and Construction Industries—Part I

  • Paweł Bęś,
  • Paweł Strzałkowski,
  • Justyna Górniak-Zimroz,
  • Mariusz Szóstak and
  • Mateusz Janiszewski

21 August 2025

Innovative technologies have been helping to improve comfort and safety at work in high-risk sectors for years. The study analysed the impact, along with an assessment of potential implementations (opportunities and limitations) of innovative technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,527 Views
19 Pages

Causal Analysis of Safety Risk Perception of Iranian Coal Mining Workers Using Fuzzy Delphi and DEMATEL

  • Mitra Hannani,
  • Marc Bascompta,
  • Mojtaba Gerami Sabzevar,
  • Hesam Dehghani and
  • Ali Asghar Khajevandi

27 September 2023

Underground coal mines, one of the most dangerous work environments, have experienced accidents and disasters. One of the main reasons for those unsafe events is the workers’ poor understanding of the hazards and risks of working in this work e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,827 Views
25 Pages

A New Text-Mining–Bayesian Network Approach for Identifying Chemical Safety Risk Factors

  • Zhiyong Zhou,
  • Jianhui Huang,
  • Yao Lu,
  • Hongcai Ma,
  • Wenwen Li and
  • Jianhong Chen

18 December 2022

The frequent occurrence of accidents in the chemical industry has caused serious economic loss and negative social impact. The chemical accident investigation report is of great value for analyzing the risk factors involved. However, traditional manu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,094 Views
14 Pages

Over the past 10 years, the mining industry of Russia has seen a greater than three-fold decrease in injury rates, thanks to the successful implementation of innovative labor safety technologies. Despite this, injury levels remain unacceptably high c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,361 Views
15 Pages

In the process of driving in an underground interchange, drivers are faced with many challenges, such as being in a closed space, visual changes alternating between light and dark conditions, complex road conditions in the confluence section, and den...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,885 Views
31 Pages

Innovative Technologies to Improve Occupational Safety in Mining and Construction Industries—Part II

  • Paweł Bęś,
  • Paweł Strzałkowski,
  • Justyna Górniak-Zimroz,
  • Mariusz Szóstak and
  • Mateusz Janiszewski

13 September 2025

Innovative technologies have been supporting the improvement of comfort and safety at work in construction and mining, which are classified as high-risk sectors, for many years. A two-part study (Part I and Part II) was conducted in which the impleme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
933 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2025

The overlying rock layers in a mining area may collapse or settle, subjecting pipelines to uneven forces that can lead to deformation or even fracture. This paper proposes a pipeline safety monitoring method that combines fiberoptic vibration and str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,339 Views
14 Pages

6 January 2021

This article deals with the role and the place of risk-based thinking in today’s occupational safety and health (OSH) systems used by mining companies. A brief survey on modern challenges and pressures affecting companies, as well as on the str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,819 Views
28 Pages

28 November 2024

In coal mining companies, investment in equipment safety plays a crucial role in improving equipment safety and ensuring worker safety. To address issues such as subjective and uncertain equipment safety investment methods leading to irrational resou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,834 Views
30 Pages

16 July 2025

This article examines the level of inconsistency in work, health and safety (WHS) laws across Australia’s mining sector. Despite general efforts towards national harmonisation through model WHS legislation, significant inconsistencies persist b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,972 Views
17 Pages

26 January 2018

China’s urban rail transit (URT) construction is coming into the stage of rapid development under the guidance of national policies. However, the URT construction projects belong to high-risk projects and construction safety accidents occur frequentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,096 Views
34 Pages

9 September 2024

The mining of deep underground coal seams induces the movement, failure, and collapse of the overlying rock–soil body, and the development of this damaging effect on the surface causes ground fissures and ground subsidence on the surface. To en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,957 Views
22 Pages

Despite increasing industrial advancements, fatal and severe accidents, such as “Falls”, “Struck-by”, “Hit by an object”, “Be crushed”, and “Caught-in/between” accidents, persist in develope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,840 Views
30 Pages

Forensic and Cause-and-Effect Analysis of Fire Safety in the Republic of Serbia: An Approach Based on Data Mining

  • Nikola Mitrović,
  • Vladica S. Stojanović,
  • Mihailo Jovanović and
  • Dragan Mladjan

31 July 2025

The manuscript examines the cause-and-effect relationships of fires in the Republic of Serbia over a fifteen-year period, primarily from the aspect of human safety. For this purpose, numerical variables describing the number of injuries and deaths in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
751 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2025

Construction accidents continue to threaten worker safety despite advances in management systems. Existing research catalogs accident attributes but rarely explains how triggers like human error, equipment failure, or procedural lapses interact with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,228 Views
19 Pages

Assessing the Contribution of Data Mining Methods to Avoid Aircraft Run-Off from the Runway to Increase the Safety and Reduce the Negative Environmental Impacts

  • Olga Vorobyeva,
  • Juraj Bartok,
  • Peter Šišan,
  • Pavol Nechaj,
  • Martin Gera,
  • Miroslav Kelemen,
  • Volodymyr Polishchuk and
  • Ladislav Gaál

The Single Europe Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) program develops and implements innovative technological and operational solutions to modernize European air traffic management and to eliminate the negative environmental impacts of aviat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,572 Views
26 Pages

A Review of Data Mining Strategies by Data Type, with a Focus on Construction Processes and Health and Safety Management

  • Antonella Pireddu,
  • Angelico Bedini,
  • Mara Lombardi,
  • Angelo L. C. Ciribini and
  • Davide Berardi

Increasingly, information technology facilitates the storage and management of data useful for risk analysis and event prediction. Studies on data extraction related to occupational health and safety are increasingly available; however, due to its va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
21 Pages

Ensuring reliable inspection and quality control in complex industrial settings remains a significant challenge, particularly when traditional manual methods are applied to dynamic, multi-object environments. This paper presents and validates a new h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,489 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2021

As the research and development activities of automated vehicles have been active in recent years, developing test scenarios and methods has become necessary to evaluate and ensure their safety. Based on the current context, this study developed an a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,569 Views
15 Pages

26 June 2023

In view of the new situation faced by safety risk management in underground metal mines, based on a comprehensive analysis of the current situation of mine safety management business and system construction requirements, the main functional modules,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,629 Views
16 Pages

Constructing a Coal Mine Safety Knowledge Graph to Promote the Association and Reuse of Risk Management Empirical Knowledge

  • Jiangshi Zhang,
  • Yongtun Li,
  • Jingru Wu,
  • Xiaofeng Ren,
  • Yaona Wang,
  • Hongfu Jia and
  • Mengyu Xie

12 October 2024

Coal mining production processes are complex and prone to frequent accidents. With the continuous improvement of safety management systems in China’s coal mining industry, a vast amount of coal mine safety experience knowledge (CMSEK) has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,288 Views
13 Pages

Research on Occupational Safety, Health Management and Risk Control Technology in Coal Mines

  • Lu-jie Zhou,
  • Qing-gui Cao,
  • Kai Yu,
  • Lin-lin Wang and
  • Hai-bin Wang

This paper studies the occupational safety and health management methods as well as risk control technology associated with the coal mining industry, including daily management of occupational safety and health, identification and assessment of risks...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,603 Views
15 Pages

Review of Major Influencing Factors Contributing to Persisting Safety Problems in Coal Mines: Addressing Systemic Challenges

  • Jiyu Wang,
  • Xigui Zheng,
  • Niaz Muhammad Shahani,
  • Xiaowei Guo,
  • Wei Xin,
  • Wei Yue,
  • Longhe Liu and
  • Kai Yan

23 October 2024

The coal mining industry in Pakistan faces recurring fatal accidents due to data scarcity, lack of research, and technology adoption. This paper reviews the current status of coal mining, the ongoing energy crisis, the utilization of indigenous coal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,437 Views
17 Pages

The advancement of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has provided new avenues for addressing text classification challenges. This study investigates the applicability of PLMs in the categorization and automatic classification of short-text safety ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,230 Views
19 Pages

Seismic Safety Analysis of Interlaminar Rock Mass in the Distributed Underground Reservoir of a Coal Mine

  • Yong Zhang,
  • Zhiguo Cao,
  • Lujun Wang,
  • Ersheng Zha,
  • Shoubiao Li and
  • Zhaofei Chu

23 January 2024

This study focuses on the seismic safety of distributed underground reservoirs in coal mines, especially in scenarios involving the establishment of multiple reservoirs within the same mining area, spanning different coal seams. Dynamic similarity mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,572 Views
24 Pages

Underground Mine Safety and Health: A Hybrid MEREC–CoCoSo System for the Selection of Best Sensor

  • Qiang Wang,
  • Tao Cheng,
  • Yijun Lu,
  • Haichuan Liu,
  • Runhua Zhang and
  • Jiandong Huang

17 February 2024

This research addresses the paramount issue of enhancing safety and health conditions in underground mines through the selection of optimal sensor technologies. A novel hybrid MEREC-CoCoSo system is proposed, integrating the strengths of the MEREC (M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,485 Views
17 Pages

29 June 2019

Information communication technology (ICT)-based mine safety management systems are being introduced at numerous mining sites to track the location of equipment and workers in real time and monitor environmental changes. This paper presents the resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,534 Views
13 Pages

Occupational Safety Assessment for Surface Mine Systems: The Case in Jordan

  • Samir K. Khrais,
  • Tamer Elia Yared,
  • Noor Majid Saifan,
  • Tarek H. Al-Hawari and
  • Fikri Dweiri

25 April 2024

Surface mining is one of the hazardous industries that have several risky operations, including transportation, treatment, and mineral extraction. To avoid the risk of disaster, it is important to evaluate safety procedures and determine expected haz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,459 Views
20 Pages

The Safety Risk Assessment of Mine Metro Tunnel Construction Based on Fuzzy Bayesian Network

  • Qiankun Wang,
  • Jiaji Zhang,
  • Ke Zhu,
  • Peiwen Guo,
  • Chuxiong Shen and
  • Zhihua Xiong

With the acceleration of urbanization, the construction of urban subway tunnel networks is advancing towards deeper, denser, and larger subterranean forms. Currently, there is a lack of systematic identification and dynamic reasoning analysis of fact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,862 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2023

Coal is an important resource that is closely related to people’s lives and plays an irreplaceable role. However, coal mine safety accidents occur from time to time in the process of working underground. Therefore, this paper proposes a coal mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,533 Views
24 Pages

Vulnerability and Risk Management to Ensure the Occupational Safety of Underground Mines

  • Fîță Nicolae Daniel,
  • Păsculescu Dragoș,
  • Obretenova Mila Ilieva,
  • Popescu Florin Gabriel,
  • Lazăr Teodora,
  • Cruceru Emanuel Alin,
  • Lazăr Dan Cristian,
  • Slușariuc Gabriela,
  • Safta Gheorghe Eugen and
  • Șchiopu Adrian Mihai

25 April 2025

Ensuring occupational safety in underground mines is a fundamental priority due to the major risks associated with this unfriendly work environment. This involves employing a set of technical, organizational, and educational measures to reduce the ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,500 Views
24 Pages

A hybrid method based on the structural equation model (SEM) and a fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) was developed to study the influences of the construction safety risks (CSR) of metro tunnels constructed by the mining method on the project risk (PR). An S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,260 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2023

Coal has played an important role in the economies of many countries worldwide, which has resulted in increased surface and underground mining in countries with large coal reserves, such as China and the United States. However, coal mining is subject...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,753 Views
18 Pages

Architecture and Application of Mine Ventilation System Safety Knowledge Graph Based on Neo4j

  • Keping Zhou,
  • Xiaohui Lu,
  • Chun Yang,
  • Zhiqing Chen,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Haiwen Yan

4 April 2025

To improve the safety management and accident prevention capabilities of mine ventilation systems, the application of knowledge graph technology is proposed. By employing methodologies such as data analysis, entity relationship definition, and entity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,552 Views
21 Pages

The construction industry has been experiencing many occupational accidents as working on construction sites is dangerous. To reduce the likelihood of accidents, construction companies share the latest construction health and safety news and informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,579 Views
19 Pages

A Chatbot System to Support Mine Safety Procedures during Natural Disasters

  • Meng-Han Tsai,
  • Hao-Yung Chan,
  • Yi-Lin Chan,
  • Heng-Kuang Shen,
  • Pei-Yi Lin and
  • Ching-Wen Hsu

12 January 2021

This study developed a chatbot to improve the efficiency of government activation of mine safety procedures during natural disasters. Taiwan has a comprehensive governmental system dedicated to responding to frequent natural disasters, and the Bureau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,708 Views
14 Pages

28 February 2025

As intelligent mining develops, utilizing coal mine production monitoring data for early warnings has become a crucial means of ensuring safety in mining operations. Assisting decision-makers in making scientific choices through multi-source and mass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,671 Views
14 Pages

Safety Warning of Mine Conveyor Belt Based on Binocular Vision

  • Lei Zhang,
  • Shangkai Hao,
  • Haosheng Wang,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Jiangong Lin,
  • Yiping Sui and
  • Chao Gu

15 October 2022

For the wear and damage to mine conveyor belts by foreign materials, such as large materials, this paper designs a volume measurement method for large materials based on binocular vision by the volume measurement of the large material inon the convey...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,144 Views
24 Pages

16 January 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly through advanced large language model (LLM) technologies, is reshaping coal mine safety assessment methods with its powerful cognitive capabilities. Given the dynamic, multi-source, and heterogeneous charact...

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