A BHP-developed system will harvest data from existing operator and equipment monitoring systems to improve safety and reduce the risk of accidents in light vehicles (LV) and surface mobile equipment (SME) at Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) mine sites.
Magnet Safety Dashboard (MSD) uses current monitoring systems to quickly identify potential behaviours or job factors that might increase the likelihood of safety events occurring (‘at risk’ scenarios).
MSD was developed to address integration potential between existing systems – which historically used different hardware and software systems in isolation – providing population-sized data sets on driver/operator behaviour.
Events and hazards associated with LVs and SME can occur frequently at BHP, so the ability to quickly understand and influence human and job factors – which could contribute to safe outcomes – enables leaders to manage risk more holistically.
MSD harnesses a range of data from collision avoidance, distraction and alertness monitoring and fleet management systems, including location, speed, acceleration, braking and cornering.
Selected information is monitored and assessed from a central location, which allows immediate access for relevant employees and medium to long-term trend analysis.
Over 800,000 metrics from more than 20,000 devices, using 300 instances of 60-plus data points, are collected.
Leaders are alerted if hardware, software and network controls are not operating as expected, while team members are alerted if acute intervention is required (where it is possible to achieve).
The system has also created efficient ways to record and display recommended response actions where chronic patterns are present.
This accurate and timely notification of driver behaviour events, trends and hot spots requiring improvement has increased awareness and resulted in reductions to the frequency of fatigue, distraction, error and non-compliance events in the Yandi mine site.
The Magnet Safety Dashboard program at Yandi Mine Site has contributed to a 58 per cent reduction in overall reported vehicle events from December 2020 to April 2021 and a 70 per cent reduction in reported speeding events between October 2020 and April 2021.
Following the program’s positive results and learning at the Yandi mine site, an MSD pilot will be implemented across all WAIO mine sites.
