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Conveyor fires are a real hazard to mining operations, but operators can best position their jobsites by understanding the threat and taking steps to thwart it. For starters, three elements [...]

The article focuses on the challenges of improving conveyor safety and reducing workplace injuries caused by fugitive materials, identifying five root causes of workplace injuries and fatalities related to fugitive materials and discussing the need for changes in how conveyors are specified, designed, purchased, operated, and maintained to achieve next-level improvements in safety and efficiency.

The article discusses operations personnel work on or conveyors have awared of the need to guard potentially hazardous components such as gears, chains, pulleys and drive shafts. Topics include maintenance workers risk coming into contact with in-running nip points; and one solution has to completely isolate the rollers on the bottom of the belt behind a continuous barrier.

The article discusses ways to lower the potential for downtime on conveyor systems by improving access to them in the mining sector.