Blind Spots Don't Have to Be Fatal
Big machines have blind spots that leave pedestrians invisible to the operator, and proximity detection fills that gap by warning both sides early. South Africa's Regulation 8.10 requires machines to detect, warn, and brake automatically, and MPI's Level 9 delivers this without hurting production. Since the push began, machinery fatalities dropped 67% in a single year, the safest the sector's ever had.
Spot the humans in the picture? The driver can’t see them from where he sits. The entire ground around the machine is a blind spot for him. A person on foot is in the danger zone and never even appears in the operator’s mirror.
This is where proximity detection earns its place.
It becomes his eyes for the spaces around the vehicle he can’t see. It catches the pedestrian or the light vehicle hidden by the body of the machine and warns both sides early.
On Level 9 it goes further and brings the machine to a controlled stop on its own when nobody reacts in time.
In South Africa this is law. Regulation 8.10 of the Mine Health and Safety Act makes machines detect a person in their path, warn the operator and the pedestrian, and brake automatically if no action follows. We were the first country in the world to regulate it.
Since the Level 9 push, machinery fatalities dropped 67% in a single year, part of the safest year the sector has ever recorded.
MPI builds the system that does this. Level 9 intervention that stops the machine and saves lives, without affecting your production.