Ratifying our commitment to improving the comprehensive safety of workers in the mining industry, we were present once again as organizers and speakers of this international event held by Gecamin.
Alexander Dabner, leader of Comprehensive Safety and Health of People at SMI-ICE-Chile, was a speaker at the opening ceremony held at the historic site of the Humberstone Saltpeter Office, where he highlighted the contribution that Safemining makes as an instance to share knowledge and experiences around safety in the mining industry. “At SMI-ICE-Chile we seek to solve industry problems through applied research,” he stressed in his speech. “I would like to highlight the work of several authors of very interesting abstracts that I had to review, in terms of artificial intelligence and application of technologies, risk management and ergonomics, among others.”
At the end of his words, he called on the participants of Safemining2024 to implement some of the ideas or proposals of this conference in their organizations. “Mining safety is not only a technical challenge, but also a commitment to each worker in the mining operation, who operates in a complex and very challenging environment. This Safemining2024 should motivate us to be the agents of change that the industry needs.”
During the conference, Alexander Dabner presented three investigations: the first, titled: “Assessing the impact of the autonomous and automated system on workers situation awareness” – joint work with Loreto Codoceo Contreras, Maureen Hassall, Robin Burgess-Limerick and Danellie Lynas, from the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland; His second presentation, in collaboration with Ben Seligmann, was titled: “Causal logic as an ‘efficiency baseline’ for risk treatment strategies”; and his last presentation, of his own authorship, referred to the topic: “Application of Bayesian networks for inference and risk management in road accidents.”
Furthermore, the general manager of SMI-ICE-Chile, Francisca Rivero, had to take on the no small challenge of presenting the research: “Advances in respirable dust characterization using automated mineralogy”, by researcher Nikky La Branche, from the Sustainable Minerals Institute, who, for reasons of force majeure, could not be present at the conference.
