Fourth Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar
Fourth Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar
Dr Sara Pazell (ViVA health at work) presented on behalf of the EMESRT tyre management improvement project on day one at the New South Wales Resources Regulator 4th Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar. The two-day seminar is being held on 23-24 October 2024 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Sara’s presentation titled Balancing the equation on technology adoption and human readiness: A hallmark of sustainable operations focused on integrating technologies into work systems, be it small or large technologies, headwear or mobile plant, if they impact work in a meaningful way and why operations must consider human factors in systems designs.
From the onset, Sara presented the Statutory Obligations – Nertney Wheel as a reminder about compliance.
The “Nertney Wheel” (Bullock, 1979), offers a model of an ideal work process for achieving safe production – the intended outcome of most site decisions. The wheel identifies four components of a safe and productive work process, competent people, safe work practices, fit for purpose equipment and a controlled environment.
This was following by a section on cognitive human factors researchers adapting the technology readiness and human readiness levels used to evaluate, track, and communicate the readiness of technology for human use. Will it fit, who does it include or exclude, and can you interact with it the way it is intended.
Sara demonstrated the visual remote guidance head mounted technology and interactive product viewer used during a trial at an EMESRT member company site in early 2023 as part of an Australia Coal Industry’s Research Program (ACARP) funded project C35020: Human-centred hazard education in OTR tyre handling operations per the EMESRT control effectiveness approach.
Sara concluded that human factors in systems designs are essential to help you manage the business transformation required to address your most significant mining challenges – two technologies, might consider ‘light’, but the principals can be applied to automation, environmental design, equipment selection, operational risk assessments, and management practices.
Thank you, Sara, for presenting on behalf of EMESRT.
