VERSAT: A Health and Safety Gear

Abstract

The project targets the need of better solution for health and safety of the coal miners in Pakistan to reduce death rate and diseases causing during the process of mining due poorly designed locally available gears. Today, there are around 270,000 miners working in mines across the country, most of them without any reliable safety. Every other month, many incidents happen due to the poor precautionary measures and lack of awareness and unreliable solutions in the local market. The idea is to provide safety by considering the cultural and atmospheric aspects and without invading the comfort zone of workers and giving them a room to take a decision for themselves. This paper contains a detailed literature research that supports the problem identification and the situation of the coal miners in Pakistan. Solution involves the existing technologies supported by several case studies and reports. The stakeholders of the project are the organizations working under Government PMDC (Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation) and other private organizations dealing coal mining in Pakistan. As is the nature of this report, all aspects of the project from conception to end are presented here for the reader along with a detailed annex and bibliography, so justice is done to the cause of the project.