- Hazards and exposures:
- Falls from heights
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10/24/2022 - Safety guidelines, tips, and checklistsUse these resources to prevent slips, trips, and falls at your mining operation.
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10/12/2020 - PublicationsThis infographic provides five major tips and related advice for avoiding falls in mines.
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10/12/2020 - PublicationsThis infographic provides six major tips and related advice for ladder safety among miners.
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2/20/2020 - Research projectsA project that adopts a multifaceted approach to investigate slips, trips, and falls (STF), develops tools to identify, report, and remediate STF hazards, and provides recommendations on ingress/egress systems on mobile mining equipment and footwear.
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12/1/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA analysis documenting the burden associated with nonfatal slip, trip, and fall incidents at surface stone, sand, and gravel mines from 2008 through 2017.
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5/1/2017 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesThis infographic offers five ways in which you can keep yourself safe when working in areas with a fall hazard.
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5/1/2017 - Training materialsThis infographic offers useful tips and best practices for safely using a ladder.
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3/1/2017This infographic offers five tips for how to stay safe while using inclined walkways.
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9/1/2016 - Conference proceedingsThis publication of conference proceedings by NIOSH categorizes and discusses the contributing factors to slip, trip, and fall fatalities as interpreted from publically available MSHA reports.