[Planning accident prevention in mines].

The dust control and ventilation services of the Quebec Metal Mines Accident Prevention Association.

The Analysis of Fatal Accidents in Indian Coal Mines

This paper describes the analysis of fatal accidents of Indian coal mines from April 1989 to March 1998. It is found that Indian mines have considerably higher accident and fatality rates compared to those in USA and South Africa, respectively. While open cast mines are generally known to be safer than underground mines, the Indian open cast mines are shown to be at least as hazardous to the wo...

اپیدمیولوژی حوادث ناشی از کار در کارگران معادن ذغال سنگ استان کرمان در طول سالهای 1370 الی 1385

  Background and aims: There are annually millions of work-related accidents leading to either loss of life or disability. Coal mine workers, due to the nature of their work, are at a higher risk of work accidents. With regard to the importance of health statue of skilled workers and prevention of work-related injuries, in this study work-related injuries in Kerman Coal Mines during 1991-2006 w...

بررسی حوادث شغلی رخداده در یکی از معادن اورانیوم منطقه مرکزی کشور طی سال‌های 1389-1385

Background: With increasing activities in underground mines and special risks of such mines, establishment of a coordinated and systematic safety system is important. Prediction of occupational accidents to prevent their occurrence is very important. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the accidents occurred during 2006 to 2010 in one of the mines of central region of Iran were studied, an...

Consequences Modeling of the Akçagaz Accident through Land Use Planning (LUP) Approach

In the study, consequences analysis of Akçagaz LPG Facilities accident was conducted.  The consequences analysis, modeling studies were performed by the use of EFFECTS 10.0 Software over two liquefied gas LOC (Loss of Containment) scenarios. One of the scenarios was G1: Instantaneous release corresponding to BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) and the other was G2: Release in 1...