- Hazard prevention and control:
- Administrative controls
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- Preparedness checklists
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- Site security
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- Proper work techniques
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- Exposure tracking
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- Health and safety management
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- Safety culture
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- Employee management
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- Worker participation
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- Accident and injury recording
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- Health and safety programs
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- Hearing conservation programs
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- Behavior safety programs
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- Materials storage
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- Policies
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- Regulations
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- Work scheduling
- or
- Work breaks
- or
- Task rotation
- or
- Clothes cleaning
- or
- Communications
- or
- Emergency communications
- or
- Hand signalling
- or
- Personnel tracking
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5/4/2023 - 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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3/1/2023 - 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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12/19/2022 - Research projectsA project to determine if existing regulations, standards, or guidelines developed for nonmining industrial, commercial, and medical sectors are adequate to ensure coexistence and safety of wireless systems in the mining sector.
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10/28/2022 - Catalogs and indexes, Data and statisticsLooking for data? Download the 2016 data files on employment, production, injuries, and fatalities collected by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).
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4/1/2022 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA review of fatigue interventions tested on industrial shiftworkers.
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3/15/2022 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesAn article detailing how three NIOSH products--EXAMiner, ErgoMine, and Toolbox Talks--can be used as part of a surface mobile and powered haulage safety program.
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12/9/2021 - Research projectsA pilot project to identify and understand human factors considerations when designing and implementing automation.
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12/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study examining the effect individual mineworker factors—including risk attitude, work experience, and safety training—have on hazard recognition accuracy.
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9/21/2020 - News articlesThe EVADE software has expanded to take in more data points and identify more hazardous exposures.
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7/1/2020 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesAn article discussing a safety climate survey NIOSH disseminated to assess employee perceptions of safety climate and to identify indicators that have a significant impact on employee proactivity and compliance.