Occupational Safety Solutions (OSS)

Discover how SmartMine’s Occupational Safety Solutions (OSS) help safeguard your workforce from harmful gases, airborne dust, excessive noise, and harsh environmental conditions—assisting with compliance, boosting worker confidence and safety, and supporting a healthier, more productive mining operation. SmartMine’s OSS incorporates wearable gas detection instruments to address mine worker health risks and environmental sensors to address location risks.

Address Challenges

Protecting Workforce Health in High-Risk Environments

Balancing Safety Compliance with Operational Efficiency

Protecting Workforce Health in High-Risk Environments

Balancing Safety Compliance with Operational Efficiency

Data-Driven Insights

Data-Backed Health & Safety Interventions

By analysing gas exposure events, dust concentrations, and noise levels over time, SmartMine OSS highlights recurring risks and exposure hotspots. This allows HSE teams to implement targeted interventions—like adjusting shift rotations or improving ventilation—based on evidence, not assumptions.

Smarter Compliance and Reporting

OSS transforms raw sensor data into structured, standards-aligned reports that simplify health and safety compliance reporting for accidents, dangerous occurrences and near-misses. Historical exposure logs support regulatory audits and internal reviews, reducing administrative burden while ensuring transparency and traceability.

Informed Operational Planning

Environmental condition data helps you plan operations around safety, not just productivity. Insights like recurring gas build-ups or elevated dust levels in certain zones or times can inform scheduling, improve maintenance cycles, and reduce unplanned stoppages.

Strategic Resource Allocation

Use exposure trends to prioritise investments in PPE, engineering controls, and environmental systems. For example, data may show a need for additional ventilation in specific underground sections or identify low-risk areas where controls can be scaled back—optimising budgets and improving ROI.

Workforce Wellness & Retention Analytics

Correlating environmental data with health trends (e.g., absenteeism, reported symptoms, or fatigue incidents) allows for early identification of occupational health risks. This supports long-term wellness programs and demonstrates a data-driven commitment to employee wellbeing—essential for retention and trust.

Key Benefits of SmartMine’s OSS Dashboard

Elevated Workplace Safety Culture

Transform safety from a checkbox into a core operational value. OSS equips your team with actionable insights that promote accountability, encourage safe behaviour, and foster a culture of care across all levels of the organisation.

Evidence-Based Decision Making

Make safety decisions with confidence. OSS turns raw sensor data into clear, actionable insights, enabling teams to respond to actual risk patterns rather than assumptions or outdated procedures.

Reduced Compliance Risk

Stay ahead of regulatory requirements with structured, auditable data. The OSS dashboard simplifies the reporting process and ensures you have the documentation to back every health and safety decision.

Improved Operational Efficiency

Identify environmental bottlenecks before they become productivity issues. By understanding how gas, dust, or temperature trends impact worker health and equipment performance, OSS supports smarter scheduling, better planning, and fewer work stoppages.

Increased Employee Trust & Retention

Show your workforce that their health is your priority. OSS demonstrates a visible and data-backed commitment to occupational safety—boosting morale, trust, and long-term retention in demanding environments.

User Interface Dashboards

Risk Overview (GDI)

- Gas Incidents and Dangerous Occurrence Detection of Toxic and Flammable Gas, and Oxygen.
- Mine worker risk profiling during and at shift-end (Toxic, flammable and oxygen).
- Location risk profiling [to be release soon with Smart Range)
- Site overview and gas level profiling over time (shift/daily/weekly).
- Top 20 exceptions per hazard (link to GDI asset or person).

Monitoring and Reporting

- Shift summaries.
- Gas Incidents and Dangerous Occurrence Reporting.
- Alarm monitoring and acknowledgements.

Investigations and Compliance Reporting

- Daily Exception Graph Dashboard and automated reports detailing timeline of gas exposure, GDI use, and gas incidents.
- Detailed daily exception reports.

Asset Management

- - Sentinel Utilisation per shift/day/week/month.
  - Sentinels with overdue calibrations.
  - Sentinel in-use that are not tested.
  - Daily Asset use, test and calibration reports.

Toxic Forecasting

- Estimate and forecast Carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) of mine workers to prevent CO poisoning.