OFFICIAL Safety–productivity conflict High Low Mechanised ground support application is fundamentally different from previous types of applications in that it now addresses the very things that caused geotechnical issues, fatality, and chronic instability by removing people from the highest-risk area after blasting. In addition to removing personnel, automation provide earlier, reliable, and verifiable installation, which allows actual performance to align with geotechnical designs rather than relying on the variable nature of manual installations. This approach increases compliance and reduces human error and organisational error as well as allowing cuttingedge systems to be deployed safely and practicably that could not have been installed manually. Because of these advantages, leading mining areas such as Australia and Canada as well as the most stressed and deepest mining operations at global level, consider innovative installation methods an essential safety control and a foundation for modern mining companies. Based on operational experience in deep hard-rock mines, the device provides the ground support installation using high-tensile strength steel mesh in underground mines via a mechanised method. It is mounted to a typical multi arms jumbo or bolter and automatically unrolls, positions, and tensions the mesh over the same cycle as the rockbolts are being installed (Figure 3). Figure 3 - Mechanized mesh installation device (Mesha®) for Minax® mesh installation, following people-light principle. Used here as a representative example of mechanized high‑tensile mesh installation systems (Ruiz-Tagle et al., 2017) By utilizing the handler device, the operator can perform the work without standing underneath unsupported rock, decrease the time to install mesh by 30 - 40% and ensure that the ground support has been installed correctly. This device is an important part of a level of advanced, in terms of people-light, promoting to improve both safety and productivity in deep, high-stress underground environments. Innovations in the systems are referred systems which employ state-of-the-art techniques used to construct mines that are situated deep, under extreme stress, have seismic activity, and only a small amount of personnel present. Conventional systems cannot adequately control these elements; therefore, those systems provide a means of integrated active control of the rock masses by providing stability, controlling both static and dynamic behaviour, and allowing for predictable production throughout the entire excavation life of the mine. In contrast to the conventional practice of providing passive/retroactive protection to the rock that has
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