{"id":635,"date":"2013-01-25T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T07:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crusherinc.com\/News\/?p=635"},"modified":"2013-01-25T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T07:12:36","slug":"safety-top-miners-cautious-about-industry-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/safety-top-miners-cautious-about-industry-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Safety, top miners cautious about industry future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-636\" alt=\"working spot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08-300x300.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08-300x300.jpg 299.40119760479w, https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08-480x480.jpg 479.04191616766w, https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sand08.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Employee safety, managing capital projects and maximizing production effectiveness are the top priorities of today\u2019s mining executives.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Worldwide Mining Survey analyzed new trends and shifting attitudes around workforces, capital investments and technology and purports to represent the views of 374 mining companies.<\/p>\n<p>The results indicate that ensuring workforce safety is the top priority for the second time in three years, with 31% of respondents saying so.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of developing new sites, mining companies are currently favoring the expansion of existing operations. In addition, 21% of executives surveyed gave precedence to maximizing production effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The study also demonstrates that mining executives closely correlate worker safety and mine productivity. When asked to identify their primary safety initiatives, nearly two-thirds or 64% of respondents selected \u201cdevelopment of skills, best work practices and situation-based decision making.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee safety, managing capital projects and maximizi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.crusherinc.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}