A mine employee was crushed because he was neither paying attention nor practising workplace safety, investigators found. An underground shift worker was hospitalised after being pinned between a rib...
Tag - proximity detection
Employers will have to fit more innovative motion inhibitors to reduce the risk of workplace accidents. New road-registered heavy vehicles must be able to detect likely forward collisions, warn...
From its solid foundation as the pioneer of and leader in Proximity Detection System (PDS) in South Africa, Booyco Electronics is making rapid headway in growing its global footprint. Having recently...
The USA Government, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has reported a fatal accident in an underground mine involving a miner being struck by a battery-powered vehicle. According to the...
Heavy traffic, large machinery and dangerous environments make safety a constant challenge at a mine. Hexagon, a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions, knows the risks its mining...
The EMERST (Earth Moving Equipment Safety Roundtable) has published its’ updated guidelines that provide mining equipment designers interoperability protocols that assist in minimising and...
The need to ensure positive communications on sites has been highlighted in a recent incident where a truck and dozer made contact at a tip head. But many other factors also came into play at this...
There are some exciting new releases of safety technology coming to the market in 2019 that come with a promise to improve safety and productivity for the Australian mining industry. The new focus of...
This high-tech proximity detection systems product is an advanced driver assist system (ADAS) which is the first South African developed and manufactured camera with artificial intelligence...
Of all the technology developed over mining’s history for safety, and even more specifically the safety of workers performing tasks around heavy machinery on an everyday basis, one of the most recent...
