Designing Safe, Healthy, Productive, and Attractive Mines [In Person]

Mine work is governed by Human abilities, limitations, and other characteristics that matter; for designing safe, healthy, and productive mining work. This short course will draw on the presenter’s 25 years of research and consulting experience to illustrate how smart design improves mining.

The topics to be addressed are:

1. Physical workstation design for safety and health; including access, control and display location,

seating and whole-body vibration, and maintainability.

2. Manual tasks risk management.

3. Control and display design for error prevention.

4. Mining Automation: lessons learned during implementation.

In each topic three approaches to design will be explored:

i) participatory ergonomics,

ii) human centred design, and

iii) human systems integration.

The short course will conclude by engaging with a current research topic: “How to increase the attractiveness of mining work to improve recruitment and retention.”

Presented by:

Robin Burgess-Limerick, Professor of Human Factors at the Mining Industry Safety and Health Centre, in the Sustainable Minerals Institute, at the University of Queensland.

*Lunch and refreshments included for in-person participants

Host or Publisher Goodman School of Mines