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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to complete a beta test installation of the contractor’s inertial sensor tracking and communication system in a working mine and demonstrate the accuracy, communication capability, and suitability for use in a working coal mine.
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7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to assess the suitability of current power line communication methods (used in nonmining applications) for underground coal mine communication, using mine electrical power distribution conductors as a system backbone.
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7/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article contributing to the general understanding of mental practice by investigating the utility of and participant reaction to a virtual reality maintenance training among underground coal mine first responders.
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7/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis article by NIOSH discusses a study that evaluated the time required to move three types of stretchers into two commercially available refuge alternatives.
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6/16/2016 - Calls for participationReserve a spot now to attend a webinar on refuge alternatives June 23.
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2/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article on the formative data collection and analysis that informed the development of a multilevel intervention to bridge health communication between workers and management to reduce mine worker overexposure to respirable silica dust.
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11/20/2015 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to develop and test an enhanced magnetics-based communications waveform with increased ability to provide communications in the presence of ambient noise and interference in order to extend existing magnetics-based technologies.
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9/1/2015 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesThis trade publication piece by NIOSH discusses how MSHA standards for rations, supplies, and sanitation facilities are addressed by various refuge alternative manufacturers.
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9/1/2015 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesThis trade publication piece by NIOSH discusses testing of the Helmet-CAM system. NIOSH partnered with Vulcan Materials Co. to test and evaluate the setup for noise assessment at the company's mining operation near Baltimore.
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7/21/2015 - Unpublished documents and reportsA feature story about new equipment and protocol for drilling large-diameter rescue boreholes.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program