ABSTRACT
This chapter presents various aspects of mining equipment safety. It covers mining equipment safety-related facts and figures; types of mining equipment involved in fatal accidents and the fatal accidents’ breakdowns and main causes of mining equipment accidents; mining ascending elevator accidents and fatalities and injuries due to drill rig, haul truck, and crane contact with high tension power lines; programmable electronic-associated mining mishaps and lessons learned; equipment fire-associated mining accidents and mining equipment fire ignition sources; strategies for reducing mining equipment fires and useful guidelines for improving electrical safety in mines; human factors-associated design tips for safer mining equipment; methods for performing mining equipment safety analysis; hazardous area signalling and ranging device (HASARD) proximity warning system; problems; and references.
The methods covered are consequence analysis, management oversight and risk tree analysis, human reliability analysis (HRA), and binary matrices. There are ten problems at the end of the chapter to test the reader’s comprehension in the area.
Finally, it is added that the sources of most of the material presented in the chapter are given in its reference section. This will be useful to readers if they desire to delve more deeply into a specific topic or area of interest.
