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In the 48 hours after a serious vehicle incident on a construction or quarrying site, the footage from every camera on every vehicle that operated near the incident location is either preserved or it is lost. The MDVR‘s rolling storage cycle does not pause for an investigation. If no one identifies and flags the relevant […]

4 August 2026

A quarry manager who can see a dump truck’s camera feed from a site office 800 metres away can intervene in the 30 seconds before a near-miss becomes a fatality. The same manager who has to wait for the vehicle to return to the workshop, pull the MDVR, and review footage on a laptop is […]

The blind spot problem on industrial machinery is not a single problem. A 360-degree slewing excavator has a completely different blind zone profile from a counterbalance forklift. A telehandler’s hazard zone changes with boom angle and extension. A road roller creates risks for the person walking immediately behind it that are invisible to the operator. […]

Selecting an MDVR for an off-road industrial vehicle is not the same decision as selecting one for a road-going HGV. The vibration profile, dust environment, operating temperature range, and power supply behaviour on an excavator, dump truck, or agricultural machine create failure modes that road-rated MDVRs are not designed to handle. An MDVR that works […]

A camera that passes its IP69K certification test in a controlled environment and then fails after three weeks on a quarry haul road has not failed the camera standard — it has failed the application. The rating tells you what the housing was tested against; it does not tell you whether the installation was done […]

Mining vehicle proximity detection is not a single problem. On surface mines, the hazard is a multi-tonne dump truck reversing at speed into a person who is obscured by the vehicle’s own body. In an underground mine, the hazard is a loader in a development heading where the only exit is behind the machine. These […]

A quarry site concentrates every vehicle-pedestrian hazard into a confined area with no public traffic management. Dump trucks move in reverse for significant portions of each cycle. Loading shovels operate in tight turnarounds. Crushers and conveyor systems create zones where workers are on foot around machinery with very limited sightlines. The combination is why quarrying […]