From pit to plant — safety at every level.
RiskSafetyAI digitises safety management for underground and surface mining operations. DMRE-compliant inspections, real-time risk visibility, and seamless shift handovers.
“Hanging wall shows recent scaling at panel entrance. Area barricaded pending rock engineer inspection.”
The paper form dies underground.
Carbon-copy inspections filled at the face get soaked, lost, and re-typed at surface days later — if they surface at all. Digital capture works where there's no signal: filled once at the face, synced the moment the cage comes up, already in the register. How many crew-hours that hands back is your number, not ours — we'll model it on your own headcounts in an ROI session.
Paper-based underground inspections
Critical safety checks completed on paper deep underground get lost, damaged, or arrive too late for corrective action. No real-time visibility into compliance status below surface.
Section 23 reporting delays
Compiling Section 23 reports manually takes days, pulling supervisors away from safety oversight. Missed deadlines risk regulatory penalties and operational shutdowns.
Shift handover blind spots
Safety issues identified during night shift don't reach the incoming crew in time. No standardised digital handover trail between shifts creates dangerous knowledge gaps.
Fragmented risk assessment data
Risk assessments completed across multiple shafts, levels, and surface plants live in different systems. No consolidated view for mine management to identify trends.
From underground to boardroom — every shift
One crew's day, told as its register. Timestamps are illustrative; every behaviour is the real product.
The shift starts already informed
The supervisor opens the AI-generated daily safety brief — yesterday's findings, active hazards, weather conditions, and overdue corrective actions for the crew.
Risk assessed at the working place
The crew completes a digital risk assessment at the working place, offline underground — hazards described by voice-to-text, photos annotated on-device, signed and GPS-stamped as it's captured. AI auto-suggests hazards and controls based on location, task, and historical assessments.
Inspection documented where there's no signal
Standardised checklist with annotated photos captured underground. Ground conditions, ventilation readings, and equipment status all documented digitally.
Surface sees it the moment the cage does
Everything syncs automatically when the crew returns to signal. Management sees results instantly — no manual data entry, no lost paperwork, no delays.
AI reads every submission
AI evaluates the risk assessment and inspection line by line — deterministic quality checks plus deep context analysis. Vision AI analyses photos for missed hazards — PPE gaps, ground conditions, housekeeping.
Findings become tracked actions
Findings become tracked actions with root cause analysis, tiered escalation, and close-out verification. 120 mining-specific root cause categories built in.
The answer is already written
The day's records are already the evidence series — signed, timestamped, exportable the moment DMRE asks. Section 23 support without the retrieval scramble.
The register gives back
The report never goes quiet. It's in the next morning's AI safety brief, it sharpens the predictive risk scores and dashboards managers watch, and tomorrow's risk assessments auto-suggest hazards drawn from it — and the executive report narrates the trend it's part of. One capture, working every shift after.
Fourteen mining-ready features
Everything the shift register above runs on — plus the modules around it.
Capture at the face
What the crew touches — offline, where the work happens.
Underground inspection checklists
01Customisable digital checklists for stopes, haulages, shafts, and surface plants — works offline underground.
Shift risk assessments
02Digital pre-shift risk assessments with severity scoring. Hazards flagged to oncoming crews before they go underground.
Fall-of-ground monitoring
03Track and trend fall-of-ground incidents. Annotated photo evidence, GPS coordinates, and corrective action workflows built in.
Ventilation & gas monitoring
04Log ventilation readings and gas test results digitally. Automatic alerts when readings exceed safe thresholds.
Explosives management
05Digital tracking of explosives usage, storage inspections, and blasting compliance documentation.
Run the shift
What keeps the day moving — tasks, approvals, actions, assets.
Shift task management
06Assign recurring inspections and ad-hoc tasks per shift with prefilled data and locked fields. Track completion, handle unable-to-complete workflows, and view full task history.
Mobile approvals & notifications
07Supervisors approve permits, close out actions, and review submissions from their phone — underground or on surface. Push notifications alert the right people instantly when forms are submitted or tasks are overdue.
GPS tracking & geofencing
08Real-time worker tracking across shafts and surface operations. Geofence zones with entry, exit, and dwell-time alerts — track who is underground at any moment.
Corrective action tracking
09From finding to close-out with root cause analysis, tiered escalation, and verification workflows. 120 industry-specific root cause categories.
Work order management
10Asset-linked maintenance and repair orders with calendar view, offline mobile completion, and automatic asset state updates.
The AI reads everything
What the machine adds after every sync.
AI safety intelligence
11Every pre-shift RA and inspection auto-assessed line by line plus deep context analysis. Vision AI detects missed hazards in photos. Predictive risk engine scores each section daily with 30-day forecasts. MHSA-aware compliance checking built in.
AI investigation & query
12Incident investigation assistant generates 5-Why analysis, fishbone diagrams, and cross-references similar past incidents. Ask your safety data questions in plain English via the AI Query Terminal.
Prove it on audit day
What the auditor sees — already signed, already assembled.
DMRE compliance reporting
13The evidence series behind your Section 23 response — signed, timestamped records exported straight from the system, supporting your DMRE submissions and minimising liability.
Audit-ready PDF reports
14Generate branded, downloadable PDF reports for any form capture — with photo evidence, GPS stamps, and digital signatures. Schedule automated email distribution to management and regulators.
Built against the acts you answer to
compliance profile: ZA · DMRE / MHSAConfigured at tenant level — not hard-coded
The profiles on this page are worked examples, not product editions. During onboarding your tenant is configured to your own regulators, report types, frameworks, and form content — and a multinational tenant can run a different profile per region, site, or business unit.
Section 23 incident and accident reporting within prescribed timeframes
Signed, timestamped evidence series exported from the system — the backbone of a Section 23 response
Risk assessments at every working place before work commences
Digital pre-shift risk assessments with severity scoring — completed offline underground, synced automatically
Workplace examination records maintained and accessible
Underground inspection checklists with annotated photos, GPS stamps, and digital signatures — instantly searchable
Fall-of-ground prevention and monitoring procedures
FoG incident tracking with photo evidence, trend analysis, and corrective action workflows
Safety representative inspections documented and actioned
Task assignment with prefilled data, digital sign-off, and full completion audit trail
Training records and competency verification for all workers
SOP distribution with version control, offline access, and read-receipt acknowledgement tracking
Hazardous substance exposure monitoring and record keeping
Ventilation and gas monitoring logs with automatic alerts when readings exceed safe thresholds
Explosives usage documentation and blasting compliance
Digital explosives tracking — usage logs, storage inspections, and blasting compliance records
What crews use it for every day
Colour-coded to the chapters above — where in the shift each one lives.
Pre-shift safety briefings
Supervisors complete digital risk assessments before each shift. Hazards and controls are documented, signed off, and available to mine management in real time.
Underground workplace inspections
Rock engineers and safety officers complete standardised inspections at each working place. Annotated photos, measurements, and findings captured offline and synced on return to surface.
Incident investigation & close-out
From initial incident report to root cause analysis and corrective action close-out — the full lifecycle managed digitally with complete audit trails.
Regulatory audit preparation
When DMRE inspectors arrive, all inspection records, risk assessments, and compliance reports are available instantly. No more scrambling through filing cabinets.
The register starts talking back
Every digital form your teams complete is a structured data point — timestamped, GPS-tagged, and photo-enriched. Clean data in, deep insight out: as your dataset grows, AI detects patterns no human could find manually, and the register stops being a filing system and starts being foresight:
Predict which sections are trending toward fall-of-ground incidents.
Identify which crews consistently under-report hazards.
Know which shafts need intervention — before the next shift goes underground.
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