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• Systems Approach to Design
  2/28/2013 - Unpublished documents and reports
  An overview of one notion to the systems approach to design and how human factors engineering fits into it.
• Underground Workstation Design Principles
  2/7/2013 - Guides and manuals, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  This page provides design guidelines to follow for proper workstation design for underground mining equipment.
• Task Analysis
  9/20/2012 - Catalogs and indexes
  Task analysis is one of the basic tools that an ergonomist has to design and evaluate systems.
• Advanced Measurement Methods in Mining
  11/1/2008 - Book chapters
  This paper features how researchers use DHM to assess and ultimately decrease the occupational risk and threats faced by underground coal mine machine operators.
• Work Practices to Manage Bump Prone Ground
  7/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This paper will review current and historic work practices used internationally to minimize the hazard to miners from mining in conditions which could produce a bump.
• Repeatability of a Checklist for Evaluation Cab Design Characteristics of Heavy Mobile Equipment
  12/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes a study that assessed the repeatability of a cab design checklist developed to evaluate various design characteristics that can influence exposure to risk factors for musculoskeletal discomfort.
• Practical Application of a Partial Cab to Reduce the A-Weighted Sound Level at the Operator's Station on Surface Drill Rigs
  12/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses the results of a collaboration with a local drilling company to design and install a partial cab between the operator and the drill steel in an effort to reduce the sound level at the operator station of a surface drill rig.
• Technology News 527 - The Partial Cab: A New Noise Engineering Control for Surface Drill Rigs
  8/1/2007 - Technology News
  NIOSH, in partnership with stakeholders in the mining and surface drilling industries, conducted research to develop engineering controls to reduce workplace noise exposure. The result of this partnership is the development of a partial cab.
• Partial Cab Video and Information Suite
  8/1/2007 - PC software, Presentations
  Partial cab information suite containing instructions for building a cab to reduce sound levels by as much as 9 dB on surface air rotary drills.This can reduce the risk of noise-induced hearing loss.
• Implementation of an Ergonomics Process at a US Surface Coal Mine
  2/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  In 2000, NIOSH initiated a long-term project to demonstrate how to implement an ergonomics process to identify and reduce exposures to ergonomic risk factors found in mining. This paper discusses how a coal mine implemented an ergonomics program.