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Basics of Mine Safety Engineering
Published in Debi Prasad Tripathy, Mine Safety Science and Engineering, 2019
Mine safety refers to the management of operations and events within the mining industry, for protecting miners by minimizing hazards, risks, and accidents. Most of the pertinent safety issues related to mining are addressed through promulgation of the relevant legislation, compliance, and best practices that are to be considered for the best possible protection of the mine workers. Employers are expected to abide by these laws and practices to ensure the maximum observance of safety at the workplace (Safeopedia, 2018). Mine safety covers various issues that affect the safety of equipment and personnel in the mining industry. The various issues are as follows: general safety issues that are common to all types of minesworkplace safety issues that are directly related to the workplaceprocess and production safety issues within the processes associated with the miningoccupational health and safety issues particularly associated with the miningenvironmental safety issues associated with underground and surface hazardsstructural safety issues associated with mine construction and geological characteristics.
Estimating the injury rates and causes of fatalities in the Japanese mining industry, 1924–2014
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
In the postwar period, the mine safety policy was performed according to the Mine Safety Law enforced in 1949. The Mine Safety Law stipulates that the term ‘safety’ has four meanings: prevention of danger to workers in the mines; protection of mineral resources; preservation of mine facilities; prevention of mine pollution. However, ‘mine safety’ is generally thought to have two aspects: preventing danger to mineworkers and to other people [13].