Analysis of factors and suggestions for improving labour productivity in underground metal mines
Keywords:
Manpower utilisation, Underground metal mine, Effective working hours, Cycle of operationAbstract
Despite the new age of industrial mechanization, the mining industry across the globe has been using a large number of labourers to achieve organizational objectives. Improvement of productivity becomes an important goal of any mining industry to achieve price competitiveness. The challenges for the industry are to identify areas of waste, meet the market demand and improve the net revenue. The most effective way of increasing productivity in the mine is the effective utilisation of mineworkers. In this paper, the effective working hours of workers in the underground mine were determined and the causes of delay in completing the single cycle of operation starting from face marking for blasting to rock bolting for support were analysed. It was found that the effective utilization of manpower is 70.8% in a single shift. Hence, one of the important factors affecting the mine’s productivity is the effective management of manpower. As a result, various suggestions were provided for improving the productivity in the mine.
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