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• Passive Fiber Optic System for Locating, Tracking, and Communicating with Personnel in Coal Mines
  9/17/2012 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop and demonstrate a modified, fiber optic-based perimeter security system to track personnel in an underground coal mine.
• Wireless Mesh Mine Communication System
  9/17/2012 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design, adapt, construct, install, and evaluate a wireless mesh communication network in an underground coal mine.
• Mine Communications and Tracking Glossary
  9/17/2012 - Dictionaries and glossaries
  Mine Communications and Tracking Glossary
• Hearing Loss Prevention in Mining - 2005
  9/7/2012 - Conferences, workshops, and seminars
  Workshop on Hearing Loss Prevention in Mining - 2005
• Mining Communications and Tracking
  9/6/2012 - Conferences, workshops, and seminars, Presentations, Videos and multimedia
  NIOSH sponsored two workshops designed to familiarize attendees with communications and tracking technologies.
• Nonverbal Communication for Mine Emergencies
  11/1/2011 - Reports of Investigations, Training materials
  Nonverbal Communication for Mine Emergencies is a training program that teaches miners a series of nonverbal hand signals to use in the event of an emergency. These hand signals can be used by miners if they are unable to communicate verbally.
• Technology News 544 - New Measurement Tool to Validate Wireless Communications and Tracking Radio Signal Coverage in Mines
  10/1/2011 - Technology News
  This technology is used to map communications and tracking coverage in underground mines. It is important to know coverage of these systems during a mine emergency.
• Technology News 543 - Reverse Implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology for Personnel Tracking in Underground Mines
  9/1/2011 - Technology News
  Possible benefits of the use of reverse RFID for personnel tracking are: improvements in accuracy, the ability to interface to a variety of mine communications infrastructures, better system survivability, and easier installation and maintenance.
• MultiFit4: An Improved System for Insert-Type
  9/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes the results of initial testing of the NIOSH Multifit4 system that was designed to be used as a tool by qualified researchers to evaluate hearing protector training and fit interventions at worksites.
• Acoustic Assessment of Pneumatic and Electric Jackleg Drills used in the Mining Industry
  4/1/2010 - Conference papers
  This paper presents an acoustic assessment of pneumatic and electric jackleg drills involving Noise Source Identification (NSID), penetration rate measurements, operator’s cumulative noise dose measurements, and determination of sound power levels.