- Hazard prevention and control:
- Administrative controls
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- Hazardous materials management
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- Emergency planning
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- Preparedness checklists
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- Work design
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- Acclimatization
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- Safety culture
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- Safety incentives
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- Employee management
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- Worker participation
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- Hazard recording
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- Health and safety programs
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- Hearing conservation programs
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- Materials storage
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- Policies
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- Standards
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- Work scheduling
- or
- Work pace control
- or
- Work breaks
- or
- Task rotation
- or
- Communications
- or
- Emergency communications
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- Signalling
- or
- Hand signalling
Results 41 - 50 of 232
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3/1/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article that aims to concisely review what is and is not known about worker fatigue in mining.
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12/16/2018 - Research projectsA project to develop evidence-based fatigue toolkits, enabling mines to sustainably and independently measure fatigue, interpret fatigue assessments, and select, implement, and evaluate appropriate interventions related to mineworker fatigue.
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12/3/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article demonstrating that international equipment evaluation standards for electrical/electronic equipment will provide at least the same level of protection for miners as the MSHA requirements.
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11/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesA report on one company’s efforts to improve its mineworkers’ self-escape competencies using competency-based performance management strategies, including assessment and remediation processes.
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4/13/2018 - Internal ReportsThis white paper offers a holistic overview of the NIOSH Mining Program's 40-year history of studying human factors in the industry and some of the critical knowledge gathered about safety and human behavior.
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4/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesA trade publication article that focuses on the need for coal miners to designate an on-site responsible person (RP) during a mine emergency.
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3/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesA trade publication article discussing a NIOSH study that aimed to find what individual miners have learned about their exposure based on CPDM use, the corrective actions identified, and their responsive, behavioral changes to reduce dust exposure.
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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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2/28/2018 - Research projectsA project to identify and remediate actual and perceived barriers to full implementation of hearing conservation programs at surface stone, sand, and gravel mines.
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2/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA publication examining how health and safety management systems (HSMS) reduce worksite injuries, illnesses and fatalities, and how an understanding of HSMS may be gained by studying the behaviors of health and safety leaders.