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

Ruipeng Tong, Yunyun Yang, Xiaofei Ma, Yanwei Zhang, Shian Li and Hongqing Yang
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Ruipeng Tong: School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Yunyun Yang: School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Xiaofei Ma: School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Yanwei Zhang: School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Shian Li: Safety Center, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China
Hongqing Yang: Safety Center, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 10, 1-18

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: gas explosion; unsafe behaviors; probabilistic risk assessment; Monte Carlo simulation; sensitivity analysis; behavior-based safety (BBS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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