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. 2019 May 18;16(10):1765.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph16101765.

Risk Assessment of Miners' Unsafe Behaviors: A Case Study of Gas Explosion Accidents in Coal Mine, China

Ruipeng Tong  1 , Yunyun Yang  2 , Xiaofei Ma  3 , Yanwei Zhang  4 , Shian Li  5 , Hongqing Yang  6
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Risk Assessment of Miners' Unsafe Behaviors: A Case Study of Gas Explosion Accidents in Coal Mine, China

Ruipeng Tong et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

China's coal mine production situation is grim and various types of accidents occur frequently, and gas explosion accidents are the highest incidence of coal mine accidents. The authors selected 200 gas explosion accidents of coal mine enterprises in recent years, and extracted a large number of workers' unsafe behaviors. Meanwhile, four working types related to gas explosion accidents were obtained, namely ventilation, gas prevention and fire extinguishing, blasting, and electrician. This article listed some influencing factors of unsafe behaviors and corrected the probability of unsafe behaviors. In addition, a probabilistic risk assessment model was established, and the Monte Carlo method was used to analyze the risks caused by unsafe behaviors of various working types. The results show that the risk of unsafe behaviors caused by the ventilation working type is the highest, followed by gas prevention and fire extinguishing, and finally blasting and electrician. This paper studies the influencing factors of miners' unsafe behaviors from the perspective of behavior, guarantees effectively the safety management of coal mine enterprises, and lays a foundation for studying unsafe behaviors related to coal mine gas explosions.

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; behavior-based safety (BBS); gas explosion; probabilistic risk assessment; sensitivity analysis; unsafe behaviors.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Occurrence of different types of accidents.
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Statistics of gas explosion accidents from 2001 to 2018.
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Classification of influencing factors.
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Risks of unsafe behaviors in four key working types.
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Sensitivity analysis results of influencing factors.
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