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• Technology News 475 - Roof Monitoring Safety System for Underground Stone Mines
  8/1/1998 - Technology News
  The Roof Monitoring Safety System (RMSS) provides a safer, simple, and inexpensive means for measuring roof movement; its use in underground stone mines is described.
• Optically Powered Remote Gas Monitor
  1/1/1995 - Reports of Investigations
  Many mines rely on toxic gas sensors to help maintain a safe and healthy work environment. This report describes a prototype monitoring system developed by the USBM that uses light to power and communicate with remote toxic gas sensors.
• Remote Fiber-Optic Methane Monitor
  1/1/1992 - Reports of Investigations
  Reports on the U.S. Bureau of Mines development and testing of an instrinsically safe methane monitor based on differential absorption of infrared light.
• Mine Slope and Subsidence Monitoring Partnership
  4/11/2024
  A partnership between the NIOSH Mining Program and its stakeholders to investigate the use of existing stability/subsidence monitoring technologies.
• Geologic Parameters for Identifying Areas of Increased Methane and Mining-induced Seismicity at Deep Coal Mines
  1/16/2024 - Research projects
  A pilot project to determine the geological variables linked to high methane concentrations and increased mining-induced seismicity in underground coal mines.
• Advancing Self-escape Training: A Needs Analysis Based on the National Academy of Sciences Report "Improving Self-escape from Underground Coal Mines"
  6/26/2023 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  A summary of needs analysis NIOSH conducted based on the National Academy of Sciences' recommendations for advancing self-escape training.
• Self-escape Core Competency Profile: Guidance for Improving Underground Coal Miners' Self-escape Competency
  6/26/2023 - Information Circulars
  Use the Guidance for Improving Underground Coal Miners' Self-escape Competency document for planning and implementing self-escape training and assessement strategies at underground coal mines.
• Advancing Exposure Monitoring for Airborne Particulates in Mining
  1/18/2023 - Research projects
  A project to design, validate, and promote the use of advancements in monitoring the exposure of miners to respirable dust, respirable crystalline silica, and diesel particulate matter.
• Develop Portable DPM Monitor
  1/10/2023 - Research projects
  A project to investigate the feasibility of using alternative measurement approaches to quantify both elemental carbon and organic carbon in filter samples of mine air.
• Multivariable Gas Sensors for Personal Monitoring of Breathable Air
  1/18/2022 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to create a personal air monitor combining multiple sensing technologies.