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Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining
Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining covers the latest advancements in coal mining technology and practices. It gives a comprehensive introduction to the latest research and technology developments, addressing problems and issues currently being faced, and is a valuable resource of complied technical information on the latest coal mining safety and health research. As coal's staying power has been at the forefront of the world's energy mix for more than a century, this book explores critical issues affecting coal mining, including how to maintain low-cost productivity, address health and safety hazards, and how to be responsible environmental stewards. This book takes a holistic approach in addressing each issue from the perspective of its impact on the coal mining operation and industry as a whole.
Front Cover; Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Profitable coal mining means being productive, safe, and environmentally responsible; 1.1. Foundations of profitability; 1.2. Statistical comparison of safety versus productivity; 1.3. Importance of environmental responsibility; 1.4. Achieving profitability; References; Chapter 2: Safety and productivity in coal mining-How to make both the top priority; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Coal mine safety and productivity: 1901-2015
2.2.1. Fatalities and estimated fatal incidence rate (IR): 1901-302.2.2. Safety and productivity performance: 1931-77; 2.2.3. Safety and productivity performance: 1978-2015; 2.2.4. Safety and productivity performance by mining method: 1980-2015; 2.2.5. Sustainability study of safety performance of surface and underground mines: 2008-13; 2.2.5.1. Fatality and injury metrics; 2.2.5.2. Enforcement agency citation metrics; 2.2.5.3. Combining injury and citation metrics into an overall safe performance index; 2.3. Evolution of the role of the US federal safety and health enforcement agency
2.4. Evolution of safety practices at mines and plants since 19692.5. Making productivity and safety linked priorities; 2.6. Conclusion; 2.7. Future trends; References; Chapter 3: Zero Harm coal mining; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Zero Harm; 3.3. Coal-mining history; 3.4. Zero Harm framework; 3.5. Coal-mining risk; 3.6. Risk management and acceptable risk; 3.7. Regulation and legislation; 3.8. Culture; 3.9. Leadership; 3.10. Conclusion and future trends; References; Further reading; Chapter 4: Productive, safe, and responsible operations are not possible without visible safety leadership
4.1. Who is a safety leader?4.2. Culture is ``the way we do things around here;́́ 4.3. Promoting a safety culture; 4.4. Applying the push-pull concept; 4.5. Health and safety maturity model; 4.6. A roadmap to develop visible safety leaders; 4.7. Summary; References; Chapter 5: Optimization of coal recovery and production rate as a function of panel dimensions; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Panel width and production rate; 5.2.1. DES of production rate vs. panel width; 5.2.1.1. Build a valid DES model; 5.2.1.2. Determine feasible range of input variables; 5.2.1.3. Estimate production rates
5.2.2. Case study5.2.2.1. Build a valid DES model; 5.2.2.2. Determine feasible range of input variables; 5.2.2.3. Estimate production rates; 5.3. Maximizing recovery as a cutting stock problem; 5.3.1. Modeling coal recovery as a cutting stock problem; 5.3.2. Solution formulation; 5.3.3. Case study; 5.4. Conclusions and recommendations; References; Chapter 6: Mine ventilation networks optimized for safety and productivity; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Mine ventilation network design and planning; 6.3. Mine air quality and dust monitoring
Duxford, United Kingdom : Elsevier Ltd. : Woodhead Publishing, 2018