Wireless Machine Guard Monitoring System

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• Personal Author:
  King GW ; Miller GG ; Reyes MA
• Description:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers are developing an intelligent machine guard monitoring and proximity detection system designed to mitigate machine entanglement and maintenance-related injuries and fatalities prevalent in the mining industry. This experiment was designed to develop a monitoring system consisting of mechanical/magnetic switches and sensor beacons capable of wirelessly transmitting information about a belt conveyor's machine guards to a remote computer. The data transfer was carried out via an off-the-shelf wireless communication system and displayed on a web-based user interface. Successful operational tests demonstrated the functionality and effectiveness of the system in monitoring guard placement status and remotely identifying the location of any removed guards using each sensor's unique identification number. The integration of wireless safety technologies such as this system is expected to improve the safety of miners by providing additional protections against machine guarding-related injuries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Metals Mining Occupational Health Quartz Safety Silicon Dioxide
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Conveyors Coal-mining Detectors Injuries Intelligent Guarding Machine Guarding Machine Safety Maintenance-workers Mining Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Monitors Traumatic-injuries Underground-mining Wireless Monitoring

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0197-2618
• Publisher:
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Nevada ; New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OMSHR - Office of Mine Safety and Health Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041666
• Citation:
  2012 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting: Forty-seventh IAS Annual Meeting, October 7-11, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012 Oct; :1-7
• Contact Point Address:
  Miguel A. Reyes, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 626 Cochrans Mill Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15216
• Email:
  MAReyes@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  2012 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting: Forty-seventh IAS Annual Meeting, October 7-11, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e6cd834aa2693f367a50ddcd429ad28ecbdac47718e31b2a80a2c9fec96385372e4c437fe10f24b24ba42a845a75f04158bcf35088e0e664d56d2200da1445de
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227471/cdc_227471_DS1.pdf
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