The nature of the mining industry is both diverse and specific, with highly tailored and powerful heavy mining vehicles and mobile equipment helping employees and mines to achieve their goals.
Today many mines are choosing to use digital inspection applications to ensure their equipment and assets are running as smoothly and safely as possible. This not only gives management peace of mind in safety, but guarantees that their operations are running close to full productivity and efficiency. One of the top benefits is that setting up digital inspection applications doesn’t mean there are only few that can benefit; the positives can flow and be felt throughout the entire business. Small improvements can have big effects for others across the supply chain.
Digital inspection applications have a number of different features that can allow employees to carry out quick and efficient pre-start checks of mining vehicles and mobile equipment or general asset inspection. Compliance with safety regulations such as ISO 14001, ISO 53.020 or ISO catalogue 73 is fundamental within mining and the compliance represents a significant step towards ensuring maximum safety within equipment operation. In recognition of the sometimes highly dangerous mining vehicles and mobile plant, employees need the top tools for completing the rigorous checks. Mobile inspection solutions can make use of mobile device hardware such as the camera and touchscreen to rapidly input data as well as take and annotate pictures. Barcodes and RFID can be scanned with ease, whilst standardised response can make checklists much quicker than through pen and paper methods. For organisations that need to consider specific regulations because of their unique activities such as ISO 21984:2018, mobile devices also come in ‘rugged’ or intrinsically safe forms; with the digital inspection application allowing offline recording. This provides employees and inspectors a truly limitless inspection experience and no excuse to not capturing the best informative data.
