The Fifth International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering (ISMSSE2021)

131 / 2021-10-04 15:25:00

PORTAS-EPIDEMIA epidemic suppression system in underground mining plants

epidemic,health,human resources,radio identifier

An effective method of suppressing the epidemic in the specific conditions of the underground mining plant has been proposed, which optimizes the test procedure, enables healthy people to return to work and effectively isolates the sick and potentially sick, while ensuring the lowest losses resulting from downtime or limited efficiency of GM during the epidemic. The key elements of the system are radio identifiers placed in the mining lamps and the system for reading and analyzing data in the lamp room. From the moment of removing from the pouch, the radio ID in the lamp records the time and signal strength of other employees' lamps nearby. On this basis, during the shift, he creates a "contact list" along with an assessment of the risk of transmission of infection as a function of time and distance. After removing the lamp and putting it back in the pouch, the computer system in the lamp room reads the data from each lamp. If an infection is detected in any of the employees, the system automatically shows a list of people at risk of infection. These people are sent to quarantine and testing. The paper presents risk assessment algorithms and procedures for dealing with the use of system data, which increase the effectiveness of suppressing epidemics in an underground mining facility while minimizing losses resulting from the depletion of human resources.