Mining
Improve worker safety whilst boosting productivity for your mining operations and stay on time of site water management risks.
Safety on a mine work site is paramount, so having access to accurate real-time lightning information and proximity alerts is crucial, particularly so for blast teams handling dangerous explosives. Also, knowing when a risk has passed allows teams to get back to work promptly to maximise productivity.
Mining operations are vulnerable to weather and lightning impacts, particularly in an open-cut setting. Lightning kills hundreds of people worldwide each year and also has the potential to damage valuable equipment, including large dump trucks. Heavy rain can also cause safety and environmental issues, as can strong winds. MetraWeather's weather and lightning services are customised to meet your site’s needs and align with trigger action response plans.
Lightning Proximity Alerting
MetraWeather's lightning proximity alerting services use a world leading Global Lightning Network to accurately detect and triangualte the position of lightning. Smart alerting is then used to issue alerts to keep your workforce and equipment safe. All Clear messages are sent when a threat has passed, so that production downtime is minimised. Alerts are sent via SMS, email, web based applications and onsite hardware with lights & sirens, so that all staff are notified of the risk. Customisable messaging is available to inform workers what action to take when an alert is issued.
Threat Matrix 10-Day Operational Forecast
MetraWeather's Threat Matrix provides a 10-day Operational Forecast highlighting upcoming risks due to thunderstorms, heavy rainfall, strong winds, extreme heat, dust dispersion and noise propagation. This allows you to plan mining, maintenance and site water management activities around favourable/unfavourable weather windows more than a week in advance. The simple but clever traffic light system of the Threat Matrix removes the need for any special meteorological knowledge and takes subjectivity out of your decision-making.
Expert Briefing Services
MetraWeather's experienced and WMO-Qualified Meteorologists can provide short, medium and long range briefings to highlight weather threats to your operations. Whether these be local servere weather events, tropical cyclones or seasonal rainfall risks, MetraWeather will keep you informed of the risks well in advance via phone or video conference briefings.
Historical Lightning and Weather Information for Reporting and Investigations
MetraWeather provides quality weather and lightning information data sets going back decades so that you can accurately investigate past incidents or report on impacts to production. These historical observations can also provide useful information on the common conditions for a new mine site in the planning stage.
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MetConnect with Threat Matrix
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