Safety systems for commercial blasting operations

A system for commercial blasting operations, the system including:

• one or more wireless transmitter systems configured to send command signals wirelessly to wireless devices that are configured for wireless electronic blasting (WEB), the wireless transmitter systems including one or more disable antennas that define one or more deactivation zones;
• one or more vehicle/personnel presence detector systems including detectors that define one or more detection zones, and/or one or more RFID scanner systems with reader antennas that defined one or more scanner zones;
• and
• a safety control system in electronic communication with the one or more wireless transmitter systems, and the vehicle/personnel presence detector systems and/or the RFID scanner systems,
• wherein the safety control system is configured to control the wireless transmitter systems to send at least one wireless DISABLE command to disable the wireless devices that are within the deactivation zones, and/or to control one or more alarm systems to generate alarms, in response to a vehicle/person being detected in the detection zones and/or a wireless device being detected in the scanner zones,
• and
• wherein the one or more vehicle/personnel presence detector systems are configured to detect/determine respective travel directions of a vehicle/person through the one or more of the detection zones, wherein the at least one wireless DISABLE command is selectively generated based on the determined travel direction of each detection zone,
• or
• wherein the system includes:
• an alarm/disable system including:
• one or more wireless transmitter systems configured to send command signals wirelessly to wireless devices that are configured for wireless electronic blasting (WEB), the wireless transmitter systems including one or more disable antennas that define one or more deactivation zones, and/or
• one or more alarm systems configured to sound, display and/or send alarms, when they receive an alarm command;
• a scanner/detector system including:
• one or more vehicle/personnel presence detector systems including detectors that define one or more detection zones, and/or
• one or more RFID scanner systems with reader antennas that defined one or more scanner zones;
• and
• a safety control system in electronic communication with the one or more wireless transmitter systems and/or the one or more alarm systems, and with the vehicle/personnel presence detector systems and/or the RFID scanner systems,
• wherein the safety control system is configured to:
• control the wireless transmitter systems to send at least one wireless DISABLE command to disable the wireless devices that are within the deactivation zones when the safety control system detects that a vehicle/person is detected in the detection zones and/or a wireless device is scanned in the scanner zones;
• and/or
• control the alarm systems to sound, display and/or send the alarms when the safety control system detects that a vehicle/person is detected in the detection zones and/or a wireless device is scanned in the scanner zones.