Solutions
Evidence for the most hazardous manual work — captured in the field, not the lab.
- Sector
- Mining
- Primary risk
- Confined space · heavy manual handling
- Standards
- Safe Work Australia · ISO 11228-1 · ISO 31000
The MSD challenge in mining
The risk where this work actually happens.
Remote sites, confined spaces and heavy manual handling make musculoskeletal risk both high and hard to assess. Conditions change by shift and location, and getting an objective read where the work actually happens has always been the hard part.
How JointAction supports mining
Evidence in, prevention out.
Assess confined-space, underground and remote-site tasks — five body-mounted sensors, around 10 minutes per assessment, capturing at height, behind PPE and in low light, with the assessor standing at a safe distance.
Build a task demands library across every high-risk role and site.
Prioritise controls by consequence, and validate that they actually moved the score.
Hold a defensible, longitudinal record for the regulator.
Where the methodology was proven
Mining is where the research came from.
The methodology grew out of Michael Lawrance's shearer-safety research and was extended into mining under the Australian Coal Research Board. Its first pilot validity trials compared automated output against expert assessors on the same mining tasks; the results are documented in the ACARP Final Report (2018). Confined spaces, low light and heavy PPE were the conditions it was built for, not an afterthought.