Prediction of Heat Stress to Mitigate the Occupational Health Hazard in Mines

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10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_132How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Occupational health and safety; Deep mine; Radiant heat; Heat stress; WBGT; heat-associated health disorders

Abstract

Explosions, oxygen deficit fatigue, hazardous chemical exposure, radiation, and extreme heat are all very real health hazards in underground mining owing to the confined environment. Deep mine high-temperature heat is one of the most important hazards in coal mining, therefore predicting deep mine underground temperature and subterranean climatic conditions has already become a key safety issue in coal mine operations. Till now, Wet Bulb Temperature is used in Indian coal mining for the measure of heat-stress conditions on humans but it doesn’t consider visible and infrared radiation. So, there is a need to use Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) for heat stress evaluation. This study attempts to evaluate WBGT and compares with various international standards. Moreover, qualitative heat-associated health disorders (HAHD) is assessed through questionnaire. The finding of the research confirms that the WBGT is above the national institute for occupational safety and health and international organization for standardization standards and mine workers are subjected to HAHD.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vikram Sakinala
AU  - P. S. Paul
AU  - Sourabh Anand
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/09
TI  - Prediction of Heat Stress to Mitigate the Occupational Health Hazard in Mines
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1318
EP  - 1327
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_132
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_132
ID  - Sakinala2023
ER  -