Job Hazard Analysis
-Consider using chock stones to facilitate partial lifts. -Consider the use of a "belay" system to ensure safe materials movement. Rockwork: lay rock, shape rock, and crush rock.
Drill and blast success at Lysterfield
Maxam technical services personnel conduct a risk assessment before the designing of the blast is started. This risk assessment is conducted in conjunction with the quarry manager or the Hanson Lysterfield representative, to ensure that all parties understand and have contributed to the safe execution of the process.
Air Pollution Risk Assessment Using a Hybrid Fuzzy …
Mine blasting discharges considerable amounts of dust, which may impose environmental risks, especially to nearby ecosystems. The present study aimed to develop a hybrid risk assessment approach using the concepts of artificial intelligence, probability, and fuzzy numbers to assess the risks of blast-induced dust emissions to ecosystems surrounding …
ON-BENCH PRACTICES FOR OPEN CUT MINES AND …
including blast notification, setting of blast gua rds, clearance of the blast exclusion zone, firing the shot, post-blast clearance,or misfire management. These are described in the AEISG …
Health impact assessment of quarrying in some parts of …
Quarrying of rocks and minerals has contributed to the economic development of many nations. However, dusts generated from these quarries have caused environmental and health challenges. Health risk assessment of the environments around quarries in southwestern Nigeria was, therefore, carried out to delineate the effects of quarrying on the environment. …
Blasting Safety: Avoiding Blasting Disasters
Blasting safety involves assessing, controlling, monitoring, and managing risk throughout the entire process of a blast, from site selection to clean-up. It's essential for all members of the blasting crew to have a thorough knowledge of the dangers involved and to utilize protective gear, including glasses or face shields, hard hats, hearing ...
Evaluation of blast efficiency in aggregate quarries: facts and
Evaluation of blast efficiency in quarrying of aggregate stones is one of the most important decisions that should be made by quarry operators for productivity assessment. The …
Blasting Assessment Report
The desk study is a very important stage of preparing the Blasting Assessment Report (BAR). The desk study involves the collection and review of information required for the planning of the proposed blasting works and the assessment of any impact and risk to the surrounding area. 1.1 Gathering Information from Relevant Authorities
Critical assessment of the effectiveness of different dust …
The exposure to respirable crystalline silica found in granite dust presents significant health hazards to quarry workers and nearby communities, including silicosis and various respiratory ailments. This study evaluates the efficacy of various pollution control measures implemented in granite quarries. It aimed to provide a comprehensive critical …
A Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach to Address Uncertainty in Risk Assessment
Accordingly, it is concluded that FRES is a very useful for both risk assessment and prediction of flyrock. Strict control of the environmental impacts of blasting operations needs to be completely in line with the regulatory limits. ... & Monjezi, M. (2016b). Development of a new model for predicting flyrock distance in quarry blasting: A ...
Blasting vibration limits for quarries and civil construction projects
The selection of appropriate blasting vibration limits for civil construction projects and quarry operations has a major influence on a project?s overall cost, duration, and environmental impact. In some cases, the application of an overly conservative limit may affect a project?s financial viability to a point where it may not even commence, despite passing all the …
Health and safety at quarries
Regulation 3 Meaning of quarry 14 Regulation 4 Application 16 What is a quarry? ... Blasting contractors 49 Shotfiring rules 49 Blasting specification 50 ... advice and risk assessment Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 Machinery, vehicle and other work
Assessment of the ground vibration during blasting in …
Bui et al. 18 examined the effects of blasting in a quarry mine in Vietnam using an uncrewed aerial vehicle. The collected database was utilized to create a novel model of hybrid intelligence.
(PDF) Assessing a risk analysis methodology for …
Blasting is one of the most important operations, which has a great technical and economical effect on the mining projects. Criteria such as fragmentation (operation ultimate objective) and ground vibration, flyrock, airblast, etc. …
An Assessment of Blasting Vibrations: A Case Study on …
An Assessment of Blasting Vibrations: A Case Study on Quarry Operation 1Alessandro Giraudi, 1,2 Marilena Cardu and 3Vladislav Kecojevic 1DITAG-Department of Land, ... assessment of ground vibrations caused by the blasting experiments at a marlstone quarry in northern Italy. The primary goal of this study was to determine the vibration level in ...
Code of Practice BLAST GUARDING IN AN OPEN CUT …
On a mine or quarry site the potential hazards are increased by the need to manage the blasting procedure to protect mine personnel, contractors and the general public from exposure to …
BLAST MANAGEMENT PLAN
RISK ASSESSMENT - BLASTING OPERATIONS 20 COMMUNICATE & CONSULTATION STEPS: 20 CONTEXT OF RISK ASSESSMENT 21 ... and assess the Mine Safety Management Plans are in place on the Sancrox Quarry site. Orica personnel conduct a Risk Assessment to identify risks that people may be exposed to while working on the customer site.
APPENDIX E: ADDENDUM TO BLASTING IMPACT …
The document is an addendum to original impact assessment report with objective of outlining the expected environmental effects that blasting operations could have from underground blasting operations on the surface areas directly above. …
Breaking down the legalities of blasting within …
"This is unless a risk assessment has identified a lesser safe distance and any restrictions and conditions to be complied with or a written application is submitted to the PI accompanied by the following documents for …
Development of a Preliminary Blasting Design and Assessment …
In this study, an appropriate pre-blasting design was performed to meet the production capacity increase in a quarry, and the environmental impacts of this design on the settlements and olive groves, which were determined as a critical structure near the quarry, were estimated. The risk of damage to critical structures is found to be low with ...
Practical assessment of rock damage due to blasting
Blasting is the most cost effective methodology to break rock for mining or civil engineering applications. A good production blast will break only the rock that is needed to be removed, leaving the host rock with minimal damage. ... Proposed steps for the assessment of the rock damage due to blasting. ... The mechanics of rock breakage. Pit ...
Predicting ground vibration during rock blasting using
The ground vibration caused by rock blasting is an extremely hazardous outcome of the blasting operation. Blasting activity has detrimental effects on both the ecology and the human population ...
Operational safety for mining and quarrying
You must have safe systems of work in place that take into account your obligations under the HSE Act, HSNO and associated Regulations. Shot firing rules should include: hazard identification and checklist for clearing …
Health And Safety In Quarrying
For individual quarry operations, as part of their risk-assessment programme under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, 1999, health risks can be assessed subjectively. In order to be able to make an assessment of the risk of health hazards, the two major elements that need to be considered are (fig. 2):
Breaking down the legalities of blasting within 500 m of …
"This is unless a risk assessment has identified a lesser safe distance and any restrictions and conditions to be complied with or a written application is submitted to the PI accompanied by the following documents for approval- (i) a sketch plan indicating the distance from the blasting area to the affected structures; (ii) the risk ...
Legal blasting within 500 m of structures
"This is unless a risk assessment has identified a lesser safe distance and any restrictions and conditions to be complied with or a written application is submitted to the PI accompanied by the following documents for approval- (i) a sketch plan indicating the distance from the blasting area to the affected structures; (ii) the risk ...
Assessing the Impact of Quarrying as an Environmental Ethic …
In order to identify the consequences of quarrying on the environment, a health risk assessment of the areas surrounding quarries in Southwest Nigeria was conducted. During blasting operations and product transportation, quarrying …
A Risk-Based Technique to Analyze Flyrock Results …
applied to conduct the risk assessment of flyrock produced by 62 quarry blasting in Ulu Tiram quarry, Johor area. Furthermore, RES and multiple linear regression (MLR) were utilized for the estimation of flyrock. It should be noted that as mentioned by many researchers (e.g. Sharma et al. 2017b, c; Singh et al.
HSE
Shotfirers have to use a suitable shelter when blasting . The tip and excavation rules, face inspection, drill log and the geotechnical assessment will need to be looked at before designing a blast. Incorrectly designed blasts can damage …
RISK ASSESSMENT REPORT Srirampur Opencast-II …
Risk Assessment is to be performed on a regular basis. The goal for each risk assessment session is to identify hazards, determine risk rating and controls, and to ... of the quarry fault zone by pre-split blasting. This may, however, be confirmed through slope stability studies The movement of the slope shall be observed by installing subsidence