LED Lighting for Improving Trip Object Detection for a Walk-Thru Roof Bolter

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• Personal Author:
  Demich B ; Macdonald BD ; Martell MJ ; Rubinstein EN ; Sammarco, John J.
• Description:
  Proper lighting plays a critical role in enabling miners to detect hazards when operating a roof bolter, one of the most dangerous mining machines to operate; however, there has not been any lighting research to address the walk-thru type of roof bolter commonly used today. To address this, the Saturn light was designed to directly address walk-thru roof bolter safety by improving trip hazard illumination. The visual performances of 30 participants that comprised three age groups were quantified by measuring each participant's visual performance in detecting trip objects positioned on the two floor locations within the machine's interior working space. The lighting conditions were the existing compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) and the Saturn LED area light developed by NIOSH researchers. Three intensities of the Saturn lights were used, 100%, 75%, and 50%, all of which resulted in better visual performance, and up to a 48% reduction in average trip detection time compared to the CFL. For the Saturn trip object miss rates were <0.5% for all age groups in contrast to the CFL, which ranged between 32.5% for the youngest group and 50.4% for the oldest group. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Lighting Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Equipment Operation Equipment Operators Light Emission Machine Operation Machine Operators Mine Safety Mine Workers Mining Engineering Mining Industry Roof Bolters Roof Bolts Slips, Trips, And Falls Statistical Analysis STF Underground Miners Underground Mines Underground Mining Visual Perception Work Environment Workers

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1477-1535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  51
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052163
• Citation:
  Light Res Technol 2019 Aug; 51(5):725-741
• Contact Point Address:
  Brendan D. Macdonald, Pittsburgh Mining Research Division, Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh 15236, PA, USA
• Email:
  bmacdonald@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Lighting Research & Technology
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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