Sponsored: Using ICT to put safety first
It takes little imagination to recognise how tough and dangerous mining conditions are. While mining houses may be perceived as being all about profit, the real truth is that safety is always any mine’s first driver and top priority. No mine can afford injuries or fatalities.
27 January 2023
This is according to Nthabeleng Digangoane, BCX Managing Executive: Mining, Health and Industrial sectors. This is where she says the intelligent and appropriate application of ICT can – and is – adding tremendous value.
Safety, she says, is underlined by applying digitisation and connectivity and having technologies that track workers, from every corner of a site, both above and below ground. This is in order to pinpoint exact locations, deal with an incident and extract compromised workers as rapidly as possible to maximise the opportunity to get those affected to safety and, if required, provide access to any required healthcare.
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