Human health and safety risks management in underground coal mines using fuzzy TOPSIS

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 488-489, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 85-99

  Mahdevari, Satar ^a   Shahriar, Kourosh ^a   Esfahanipour, Akbar ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy TOPSIS; Human health and safety; Kerman coal deposit; Risk management; Underground mining

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL HAZARDS; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL MINES; HEALTH RISKS; MINERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; VENTILATION;

CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; FUZZY TOPSIS; HEALTH AND SAFETY; HUMAN HEALTH; PERFORMANCE RATINGS; UNDERGROUND COAL MINE; UNDERGROUND MINING; VENTILATION SYSTEMS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

COAL MINE; COAL MINING; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEALTH AND SAFETY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUZZY TOPSIS; GEOLOGY; IRAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUFFOCATION; TRAINING; UNCERTAINTY; VENTILATOR;

IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN];

FUZZY TOPSIS; HUMAN HEALTH AND SAFETY; KERMAN COAL DEPOSIT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNDERGROUND MINING;

COAL; COAL MINING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; IRAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 84899938644     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.076     Document Type: Article

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