Tracking Mine Safety Performance Trends to Assess the Risk for a Fatality
Abstract
The authors previously had developed a methodology that combines injury and citation measures into an overall mine safety performance evaluation tool, called the Safe Performance Index (SPI). It can be easily adopted by mine operators to monitor trends in their injury and citation experiences as a risk assessment method. In this paper, six normalized safety measures and the SPI are used to evaluate the risk that existed at mines in the two years preceding the occurrence of a fatality. The percentage of mines is given for which the risk was high or where trends of some of the safety measures indicated moderate risk. In 50% of the mines, this mine safety performance tracking method could have been helpful to the companies, state agency, or MSHA in recognizing and addressing emerging problems with actions that may have been able to prevent high-risk conditions, the fatality, and/or other serious injuries. The approach would have given scrutiny to the risk for mines that encompassed 74% of the fatalities during 2007-2010. Copyright © 2012 by SME.
Recommended Citation
H. Kinilakodi and R. L. Grayson, "Tracking Mine Safety Performance Trends to Assess the Risk for a Fatality," Proceedings of the 2012 SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit (2012, Seattle, WA), Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc. (SME), Feb 2012.
Meeting Name
2012 SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit, SME 2012 (2012: Feb. 19-22, Seattle, WA)
Department(s)
Mining Engineering
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2012 Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc. (SME), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
22 Feb 2012
