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- Research methods and measures:
- Risk analysis
- Document types:
- Peer reviewed journal articles
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Results 1 - 10 of 12
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10/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThe top five priority hazards associated with underground coal mining equipment have been identified and information about potential contributing factors and controls collated.
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3/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study focusing on one trona mine’s experience in the development and implementation of a field-level risk assessment program to help its organization understand and manage risk to an acceptable level.
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1/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article describing the results of a robust design to consider the impact of different lithologic risk factors impacting dynamic failure risk.
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8/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper analyzes U.S. roof bolter fatal and nonfatal lost-time injury data at underground work locations for all commodities from 2004 through 2013 and determines risk indices for six roof bolting tasks.
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4/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesNIOSH researchers used motion analysis data and digital human models to evaluate factors that precipitate struck-by injuries in the operation of remote continuous mining machines.
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12/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper describes a study that assessed the repeatability of a cab design checklist developed to evaluate various design characteristics that can influence exposure to risk factors for musculoskeletal discomfort.
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12/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper describes an alternative measure of risk in mining using a beta distribution to model the losses and to compare underground coal mining to underground metal/nonmetal mining from 2000 to 2004.
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11/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper discusses a method to determine the roof fall risk using a qualitative risk analysis technique.
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11/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper concludes a five-year program on research into the use of a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer for analyzing lead in air sampling filters from different industrial environments, including mining, manufacturing and recycling.
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12/1/2001 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThe most hazardous work environments share one feature in common: constant change. A preliminary typology of dynamic and hazardous work environments, along with a schema to observe the dynamic characteristics of these hazards is proposed.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program