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• Heat Stress: A Series of Fact Sheets for Promoting Safe Work in Hot Mining Settings
  10/19/2023 - Fact Sheets, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  This series of fact sheets covers heat stress topics from acclimitization and hydration to first aid for heat illness and risk factors, and also includes a discussion about work and rest schedules.
• HLSim - NIOSH Hearing Loss Simulator
  6/8/2022 - PC software
  A software training and communication tool for demonstrating the effects of noise exposure on hearing without experiencing an actual noise-induced hearing loss.
• An Evaluation of Sound Restoration Hearing Protection Devices and Audibility Issues in Mining
  11/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper presents test results from a selection of four sound restoration hearing protection devices, with the objective of determining whether they provide improved speech intelligibility to workers near certain types of mining equipment.
• What Does a Hearing Loss Sound Like?
  9/19/2012 - Training materials
  Loud noise can permanently damage your hearing. It especially affects the sounds that help you understand speech. To hear what this sounds like, try these computer-generated samples.
• Technology News 548 - Bit Isolator Reduces Drilling Noise in Underground Coal Mines
  3/1/2012 - Technology News
  This paper describes an engineering noise control that reduces roof bolting machine (RBM) operators’ exposure to noise in underground coal mines, thereby decreasing the risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in RBM operators and nearby workers.
• Evaluation of the Approach to Respirable Quartz Exposure Control in U.S. Coal Mines
  2/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The performance of the current regulatory approach was found to be lacking due to the use of a variable property - quartz content in airborne dust - to establish a standard for subsequent exposures.
• Understanding and Quantifying Arc Flash Hazards in the Mining Industry
  11/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Noncontact electric arc burns are the most common cause of electrical injury in mining according to data for 1990 through 2001. Results from a NIOSH study of arc flash hazards in mining and recommendations to reduce these injuries are presented.
• Coal Dust Exposure and Mortality From Ischemic Heart Disease Among a Cohort of U.S. Coal Miners
  10/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Particulate exposure from air pollution increases the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality. Although coal miners are highly exposed to coal dust particulate, studies of IHD mortality risk among coal miners have had inconsistent results.
• Practical Demonstrations of Ergonomic Principles
  7/1/2011 - Reports of Investigations
  This document consists of a series of demonstrations designed to complement training on ergonomic principles.
• CAP the Noise to Save your Hearing!
  11/1/2010 - Brochures/flyers/pamphlets
  This publication addresses what you can do when you are exposed to hazardous noise.