ABSTRACT
Mobile construction and mining equipment includes heavy vehicles such as dump trucks, forklifts, backhoe loaders, bulldozers, rollers and mobile cranes (Horberry and Cooke, 2012). Such equipment are essential tools for materials handling, as well as being flexible vehicles for many freight movement tasks in mining, manufacturing, construction and elsewhere. They offer many benefits, such as improving work efficiency or reducing manual handling, but they can also pose a major occupational hazard, especially where used in close proximity to other ‘pedestrian’ workers (Larsson and Rechnitzer, 1994). Similarly, such equipment can pose safety and health hazards to operators and maintainers of the equipment, these hazards include access/egress injuries, noise induced hearing damage, vehicle fires and explosions, and loss of vehicle control (Horberry et al, 2010).
