Organizational and technical measures to reduce the value of industrial noise on the underground coal miners

The continuous improvement of mining enterprises, the expansion and developing of modern technological processes leads to the emergence of new sources of danger and the concentration of harmful and hazardous production factors in the workplace. In order to prevent the development of occupational diseases of hearing, a system is being developed with the ability to assess the noise level at workplaces in real time, transmit information and warn the employee about the need to protect the hearing. This article discusses the development of a modernized system for monitoring noise exposure to coal mine workers and warning workers about exceeding the permissible noise levels and the need to use personal hearing protective equipment. Experimental methods discussed include questionnaires, dosimetry, and hearing threshold bias. According to the measurements obtained, a working model of a helmet with a system for monitoring and controlling the use was developed and designed, which was tested in the conditions of the Sadkinskaya mine of OJSC Shakhtoupravlenie Sadkinskoe. As a result, an analysis of the effectiveness of the modernized personal protective equipment for the hearing was carried out and the effectiveness of the system for monitoring the use and warning workers about possible exceeding the maximum permissible noise level was established. Calculations of the predicted displacement of the hearing threshold for workers were carried out, taking into account the use of means for monitoring the noise situation at workplaces.

Nikulin A. N., Krasnoukhova D. Y., Stepanova L. V., Burlov V. G., Gomazov F. A. Organizational and technical measures to reduce the value of industrial noise on the underground coal miners. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2022;(6—1):157—173. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2022_61_0_157.

The research was carried out at the expense of a grant for the implementation of the state task in the field of scientific activity for 2021 No. FSRW-2020—0014.

Nikulin A. N., Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Safety, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6878-0512, Saint Petersburg Mining University, 199106, Saint Petersburg, 21st Line, 2, Russia, e-mail: nikulin-rus@yandex.ru;
Krasnoukhova D. Y., Graduate at the Department of Industrial Safety, https://orcid.org/00000001-7573-3864, Saint Petersburg Mining University, 199106, Saint Petersburg, 21st Line, 2, Russia, e-mail: darya.krasnouhova@yandex.ru;
Stepanova L. V., Senior Lecturer at the Department of Graduate School of Technosphere Safety, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8557-936X, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251, Saint Petersburg, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, Russia, e-mail: stepanova_lv2@spbstu.ru;
Burlov V. G., Professor at the Department of Graduate School of Technosphere Safety, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7603-9786, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251, Saint Petersburg, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, Russia, e-mail: burlovvg@ mail.ru;
Gomazov F. A., Assistant at the Department of Graduate School of Technosphere Safety, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-1843, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251, Saint Petersburg, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, Russia, e-mail: gomazov_ fa@spbstu.ru.

Nikulin A. N., e-mail: nikulin_an@pers.spmi.ru.

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