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No More Mobile Machinery Accidents!! - Level 9 Vehicle Intervention Control
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Each year, around 30-40% of mining industry fatalities are attributable to failures in vehicle interaction controls, and of these approximately half involve pedestrians, mostly in underground mines.
This can be stopped/eliminating by implementing Level 9 Intervention:
Level 1: Site requirements: machinery specifications, mine design, standards [YEARS]
Level 2: Segregation controls: berms, access control, traffic segregation (MONTHS)
Level 3: Operating procedures: maintenance, traffic rules, quality control [WEEKS]
Level 4: Authority to operate: training, qualification, licenses, induction [DAYS]
Level 5: Physical state to operate: state of fatigue, drugs and alcohol, medications [TURN]
Level 6: Operational compliance: safety test, pre-start, machinery status [HOURS]
Level 7: Notice to the operator: cameras, real-time maps, mirrors, lights [MINUTES]
Level 8: Alert controls: proximity alert, fatigue, overspeed [SECONDS]
Level 9: Intervention controls: intervention to reduce speed, braking [MILLISECONDS]
What is stopping us from implementing Level 9?
Safety First!