Join CIM Magazine and the CIM Health & Safety Society for the first webinar in The Safety Share series
WATCH THE RECORDING
January 26, 2023, 1 p.m. EST
Fatigue plays a significant role in industrial work performance, safety and productivity. Drivers operating haulage equipment in the mining industry face a high risk for fatigue due to the primarily perceptual-motor requirements. To address this issue, wearable technologies for fatigue detection have been marketed to transport and haulage operators in the mining industry. However, few devices have been independently validated, especially in the field setting.
Join presenter Emily Tetzlaff, Health & Safety Project Analyst at Torex Gold Resources, as she shares findings from a field evaluation of the SmartCap© wearable fatigue detection device, among mobile operators in an open-pit mine. She will share insight on worker acceptance and usability of the wearable fatigue detection device in a mining field environment as well as the device's effectiveness at reducing operator fatigue.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Nelson Bodnarchuk, Vice President Health & Safety at Torex Gold Resources.
PRESENTER
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Emily Tetzlaff
Health & Safety Project Analyst
Torex Gold Resources
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Emily is a PhD candidate at the Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit at the University of Ottawa. She has worked in the mining industry since 2015 as both a researcher and corporate health promotion specialist with Med-I-Well Services and was previously awarded a Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council of Canada post-graduate scholarship for investigating heat stress in the underground environment. As a part-time Health & Safety Project Analyst at Torex Gold, she supports the site's fatigue risk management program.
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Moderator
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Nelson Bodnarchuk
Vice President Health & Safety
Torex Gold Resources
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Nelson brings over 21 years of global, multi-commodity operating leadership experience. He has worked in the engineering, operational technology, IT, nuclear, automation, maintenance, software development and banking sectors. He joined Torex in 2014 as the Director of Operational Systems, overseeing critical aspects of the successful construction, start-up and operation of the Greenfield build of the ELGppen pit mine and processing plant. Over the past three years, he has led the Health & Safety teams at Torex, delivering integrated systems supporting the safe operations of the Morelos Mine Complex in Guerrero State, Mexico.
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