Functional Safety for the Underground Mining Safety Device Proximity Detection in No-Go-Zones
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17th IFAC Symposiuk on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing: August 31 - September 2, 2016, Vienna. 2016.
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TY - GEN
T1 - Functional Safety for the Underground Mining Safety Device Proximity Detection in No-Go-Zones
AU - Rath, Gerhard
AU - Sifferlinger, Nikolaus August
PY - 2016/8
Y1 - 2016/8
N2 - Due to the inevitable proximity of heavy machinery and human workers in miningand tunneling the risk of severe accidents is high. The paper describes recent worldwide efforts to increase occupational safety in this industry. The major problems and approaches are discussed using the example of the development of proximity detection systems. Due to the hard environmental conditions, guards and protective devices cannot be used in many cases.Consequently functional safety is gaining importance in mining and tunnelling. The Standards for functional safety are well-developed for manufactoring industry, but some issues cannot be applied directly in mining and tunnelling. One of these problems is the mean time to fail, which is a condition to reach a required safety integrity level. Small samples of data make statistical conclusion dicult. A method based on Markov chains is presented for this purposes, the results are compared with the results of the standards.
AB - Due to the inevitable proximity of heavy machinery and human workers in miningand tunneling the risk of severe accidents is high. The paper describes recent worldwide efforts to increase occupational safety in this industry. The major problems and approaches are discussed using the example of the development of proximity detection systems. Due to the hard environmental conditions, guards and protective devices cannot be used in many cases.Consequently functional safety is gaining importance in mining and tunnelling. The Standards for functional safety are well-developed for manufactoring industry, but some issues cannot be applied directly in mining and tunnelling. One of these problems is the mean time to fail, which is a condition to reach a required safety integrity level. Small samples of data make statistical conclusion dicult. A method based on Markov chains is presented for this purposes, the results are compared with the results of the standards.
KW - Automation, Mining, Functional Safety
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - 17th IFAC Symposiuk on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing
ER -
