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• Design, Testing, and Modeling of Environmental Enclosures for Controlling Worker Exposure to Airborne Contaminants
  6/1/2018 - Information Circulars
  Read the latest NIOSH design guidelines for environmental enclosures to reduce contaminant exposure.
• Miniaturized Wearable Personal Dust Exposure Monitor for Respirable and Alveolar Dust in Underground Coal Mines
  2/1/2018 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design and develop a miniaturized personal dust monitor for miners.
• Webinar: Protecting Workers in Enclosed Cabs from Silica Exposure: Leveraging Research from the Mining Industry
  10/16/2017 - Presentations
  Plan to attend this webinar to hear about protecting workers in enclosed cabs from silica exposure.
• Mobile Dry Scrubber Provides Cleaner Air for Downwind Roof Bolter
  10/12/2017 - Technology News
  A Technology News describing a self-tramming, remotely controlled mobile dry scrubber developed by J.H. Fletcher and Co. under a NIOSH contract to reduce exposure of miners to airborne dust.
• Infographics: Helping Mines Control Respirable Silica Dust
  10/2/2017 - Publications
  Use these four handy infographics for tips on helping mine workers reduce their respirable dust exposure.
• Technology News 559 - Mobile Dry Scrubber Provides Cleaner Air for Downwind Roof Bolter
  9/30/2017 - Technology News
  A Technology News describing a self-tramming, remotely controlled mobile dry scrubber developed by J.H. Fletcher and Co. under a NIOSH contract to reduce exposure of miners to airborne dust.
• The Future of Respirable Silica Monitoring: Accurate Results Generated On-site in a Few Minutes
  9/1/2017 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing an innovative silica monitoring approach NIOSH is developing that would generate silica concentration data right on site, immediately after collecting a respirable dust sample.
• 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.
• Respirable Size-Selective Sampler for End-of-Shift Quartz Measurement: Development and Performance
  5/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article by NIOSH about a study to develop a respirable size-selective sampler for direct-on-filter (DoF) quartz measurement at the end-of-shift (EoS) using a portable Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer.
• Respirable Dust Measured Downwind During Rock Dust Application
  5/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A paper discussing underground evaluations conducted in an attempt to quantify respirable rock dust generation when using untreated rock dust and rock dust treated with an anticaking additive.