At Murray & Roberts Cementation, safety enjoys the top slot in the list of priorities. “As part of our concerted safety drive, we have now established the use of collision warning systems as a pre-requisite for all new operations,” Neil Lane, engineering services executive, says. “No project will be permitted to start without such a system in place.”  Read the rest of this entry »

Booyco Electronics’ groundbreaking new Collision Warning System 800 Plus will be installed at Xstrata’s new Elands Platinum Mine in the Brits area from operational start-up.

“Every vehicle to go underground will be fitted with the CWS 800 Plus System and every pedestrian will be equipped with the relevant VLF tag,” Anton Lourens, managing director of Booyco Electronics, says. Read the rest of this entry »

The use of alternative battery technology applied by Booyco Electronics has resulted in an intrinsically safe (IS) uninterruptable power supply (UPS) which offers reliable performance under even the harshest operating conditions. Read the rest of this entry »

Booyco Electronics has established a black owned subsidiary, Booyco Ya Batho, as part of its BBBEE strategy. The primary shareholding of the new company resides with Elvis Mandiwana, who has been with Booyco Electronics since in 2007 Read the rest of this entry »

More attention should be give to the functionality and usefulness of trapped miner locating systems. This is the opinion of Anton Lourens, managing director of Booyco Electronics, who says that the mining industry has become increasingly more receptive to the use of this type of product. Read the rest of this entry »

“Miners trapped underground in rock fall.” Headlines such as this are all too familiar in the mining fraternity, particularly in South Africa where deep hard rock mines such as those in the gold industry predominate. Booyco Electronics’ new Trapped Miner Locator promises to make a hugely positive impact by facilitating and accelerating the process of establishing the whereabouts of miners trapped underground. Read the rest of this entry »

Providing an early and reliable warning of an incipient fire on a mine is an important element in any mine fire safety programme.

The Remcon Fire Detection System, available from Booyco Electronics, more than adequately meets this need.This system has been designed to be reliable and accurate so false alarms are minimised without sacrificing sensitivity or time response. Read the rest of this entry »

Tamping is a legal requirement, designed to contain and distribute explosive energy in the blast hole, reducing the risk of fire hazard. It maximises the effect of an explosion, concentrating it into the rock instead of allowing expanding gases to escape through the blast hole. Clay plugs are most commonly used, but when a misfire occurs, they are notoriously difficult to remove. This is not only time consuming, but costly. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) in the US, more than 50% of adults have admitted to driving while drowsy at least once in the past year and these numbers are unlikely to improve. Chronic sleep deprivation is especially common amongst shift workers, who account for 20% of the US work force and have twice the number of highway accidents as day workers. Read the rest of this entry »

The ability to quickly detect the presence of an unwanted gas often means the difference between life and death on a large scale. Tapping into experience gained in successfully developing a renowned range of sensing, monitoring and control systems Booyco Electronic has now introduced environmental sensing instrumentation which is suitable for use in hazardous environments. Read the rest of this entry »