Effectiveness Research of Safety Signs in Coal Mines Based on Eye Movement Experiment

Through the analysis of major fatal accidents occurred within 30 years from 1986 to 2016 in China’s coal mines, it reflects that human errors accounting for up to 80% of the total accidents. The coal mines have set up a variety of safety signs that can alert miners to be careful with the insecurity in the workplace, and guide them to behave safely in accordance with legal standards. However, the human-induced accidents still occur. The problem is that although the safety signs have been adopted universally in the coal mines as a kind of management strategy, they are hard to play the safety signs’ due role in the practical application. The low effectiveness of safety signs is one of the important reasons for the coal mines accidents. In order to settle the practical problems and improve the safety level of coal mines, this research is designed to study the effectiveness of safety signs in coal mines.