Torex Gold moves to add monitor to PPE following multi-year study
Wearable devices have been found to help workers avoid fatigue-related incidents while driving mine haul trucks, according to the results of a new study.
“And this passive fatigue, it's exacerbated by the shift cycle that the site might be working, it's exacerbated by the sedentary behaviour, travelling on these roads that they're super familiar with, and then we've got all the environmental features — so, if you're operating at night, you've got low lighting, a humid environment, high heat with this workforce as well.”
“They have a predictive capacity to it, where it's actually giving you warning indicators in advance of a micro-sleep taking place,” Tetzlaff explained. “Overall, though, our actual fatigue alarms that are occurring during that period were actually the same during days and nights,” she said.The rate of fatigue alarms varied between participants, she noted. Some had no fatigue alarms at all, indicating a strong ability to manage their own fatigue, while others had several.
The data also revealed that participants were more prone to fatigue when reaching certain sites along a truck's route, such as an idling area for dumping, or a meeting location where drivers were more sedentary for extended periods.
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