The assessment of emergency capability of coal mines based on AHP-fuzzy comprehensive method

In order to improve the emergency management capability to prevent or control the major accidents, it is significant for the coal mine to study the method on assessment of the emergency capability. This paper is aiming at bring about an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy comprehensive method to assess the emergency capability of coal mine. Firstly, the key elements of the emergency management for coal mine were analyzed based on the theories of the emergency management. And then, from the precaution, response and recovery aspects, the assessment index system of the emergency management capability for coal mine was built and the basic indexes of each element were confirmed and discussed too. Furthermore, a multi-level fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model for mine emergency management capability was built based on the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and fuzzy mathematics. Also, the assessment index system and mathematical model were applied to a selected mining enterprise, whose assessing result was “high”, some shortcomings of the emergency system of the coal mine were analyzed and some suggestions were proposed to improve the emergency capability for the coal mine. The study is helpful for the emergency management and prevention of major accident of coal mine.