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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
28 January 2020
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...
26 June 2024
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
26 April 2018
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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