Wearable Sensors for Continuous, Real-Time Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Mine Workers Health and Safety - SME Annual Meeting 2024
- Organization:
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
- Pages:
- 11
- File Size:
- 1582 KB
- Publication Date:
- Feb 1, 2024
Abstract
Mine workers are continuously exposed to a host of nonfatal
stressors and potentially fatal hazards: noise exposure,
excessive vibration, poor air quality, toxicant exposure,
ignition of combustible gases, equipment-related accidents,
and thermal heat stress.
Wearable or portable sensors and contextual analytics
provide a platform to unobtrusively collect and fuse multimodal
health and safety data in real time to compute both
acute safety and longitudinal health insights. This paper
presents preliminary trial results, conducted by Simtars,
VigiLife, Inc., and Queensland Mines Rescue Service, of
the application of wearable sensors to monitor heat stress
and other vital biometrics for mines rescue personnel.
Citation
APA: (2024) Wearable Sensors for Continuous, Real-Time Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Mine Workers Health and Safety - SME Annual Meeting 2024
MLA: Wearable Sensors for Continuous, Real-Time Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Mine Workers Health and Safety - SME Annual Meeting 2024. Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 2024.