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• Safety Pays in Mining: User's Guide
  10/20/2023 - Guides and manuals
  User's guide for Safety Pays in Mining.
• Technology News 565: Keeping Cool: Training to Reduce Heat Stress Incidents in Mines
  8/1/2023 - Technology News
  Use Keeping Cool to help workers recognize the signs of heat-related illness and provide appropriate first aid.
• Characterization of Forms of Silica with Varying Degrees of Crystallinity in Respirable Dust to Assess their Effects on Miners’ Pneumoconiosis
  7/4/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to evaluate different forms of silica embedded in the mine-emitted dusts and how they are related to their host rocks’ mineralogical and geological features. 
• Mine Hearing and Communication Safety System
  6/13/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  Triton Systems proposes to develop a new product—“MineEar”—which would offer superior awareness, communication, and hearing protection through noise attenuation, occlusion effect reduction technology, and advanced noise reduction.
• Evaluation of Mobile Applications for Digital Contact Tracing
  3/27/2023 - Research projects
  A project to develop guidelines for the design, implementation, and evaluation of digital contact tracing tools through laboratory and field testing under occupational settings and to investigate human factor considerations for adopting such tools.
• Keeping Cool: Training to Reduce Heat Stress Incidents
  3/17/2023 - Training materials, Web software
  Use Keeping Cool to teach workers how to recognize heat-related illness and provide first aid.
• Increasing the Effectiveness of Targeted Mining Hearing Conservation Program Elements
  3/1/2023 - Research projects
  A project to identify and remediate actual and perceived barriers to full implementation of hearing conservation programs at surface stone, sand, and gravel mines.
• Filter Media and Holder Compatible with Personal Dust Monitor and End-of-Shift Crystalline Silica Quantification by Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy
  2/22/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Desert Research Institute to find alternative filter media and redesign the filter holder for the continuous personal dust monitorto make the filter compatible with end-of-shift respirable crystalline silica quantification.
• Exoskeletons as an Innovative Approach to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders in Surface Stone Mining
  2/22/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Virginia Tech University to research exoskeletons as an innovative approach to prevent musculoskeletal disorders in surface stone mining.
• Characterization of Submicron-/Nano-scale Coal Dusts and Their Effects on Miners' Pneumoconiosis and Lung Cancer for Underground Coal Mines
  2/17/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Pennsylvania State University to investigate the characterization of submicron-/nano-scale coal dusts and their effects on miners’ pneumoconiosis and lung cancer for underground coal mines.