- Hazard prevention and control:
- Hazardous materials management
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- Emergency planning
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- Site security
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- Work design
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- Proper work techniques
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- Acclimatization
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- Exposure tracking
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- Health screening
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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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- Hazard recording
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- Health and safety programs
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- Behavior safety programs
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- Materials storage
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- Policies
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- Standards
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- Work scheduling
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- Work pace control
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- Work breaks
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- Task rotation
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- Clothes cleaning
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- Hand signalling
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA pilot project to identify leading indicators in health and safety management practices unique to the mining industry and compare them against the leading indicators of mature occupational health and safety programs.
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7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to test the efficacy of deploying a vehicular satellite communication system, augmented with rapidly deployable mesh networking nodes and other emerging telecommunications technologies, during mine rescue and other emergency events.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to develop a Severe Injury Surveillance System using the Mine Safety and Health Administration's accident/injury/illness database.
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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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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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1/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study looking at how a dust assessment technology, the Helmet-CAM, was used to identify and encourage communication about potential problem areas and tasks on site that contributed to elevated exposures.
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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.