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• Heat Stress: Understand Heat Stress Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment
  2/14/2018 - Publications
  A poster presenting heat stress risk factors, prevention, and treatment.
• Knowing the Facts about Heat Stress in Mining
  6/29/2017 - Safety alerts
  Learn about the risks associated with heat stress in mining and what you can do to keep yourself safe.
• Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP)
  6/5/2017 - Research projects
  A project to maintain a Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) designed to identify the incidence and progression of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis in all coal miners.
• Workshop on Elongate Mineral Particles: Integrating Terminology and Characterization
  4/14/2017 - Calls for participation
  Participate in a NIOSH-sponsored National Academy of Sciences workshop on elongate mineral particles May 15-16, 2017, at the National Academies in Washington, D.C.
• Predicting Heat Strain in Underground Metal and Nonmetal Miners
  3/30/2017 - Research projects
  A project to identify and test the physiologic and environmental measurement tools and data collection instruments needed to assess heat strain among miners.
• Respirable Dust Control Methods on Continuous Mining Operations
  3/15/2017 - Research projects
  A project to develop and evaluate control technologies to reduce respirable dust exposures for operators of roof bolters and continuous mining machines.
• NIOSH Hearing Loss Prevention Unit is at CONEXPO-CON/AGG
  3/6/2017 - Calls for participation
  NIOSH Mining's Hearing Loss Prevention Unit is offering free hearing tests at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 in Las Vegas!
• Don't Slip Up!
  3/1/2017
  This infographic offers five tips for how to stay safe while using inclined walkways.
• Controlling Respirable Dust in Coal Mining Operations
  2/22/2017 - Research projects
  A project to identify and develop improved respirable dust controls for coal mines and facilitate their implementation to reduce the dust exposures of mine workers.
• Prediction of Human Core Temperature Rise and Moisture Loss in Refuge Alternatives for Underground Coal Mines
  1/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Heat and humidity buildup is a major concern within coal mine refuge alternatives. High temperature and humidity levels inside a refuge alternative may expose occupants to heat stress. This article addresses a model used to measure those stresses.