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• Technology News 533 - Minimizing Respirable Dust Exposure in Enclosed Cabs by Maintaining Cab Integrity
  9/1/2008 - Technology News
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been performing research to retrofit cabs with new filtration and pressurization systems in an effort to improve the air quality in enclosed cabs of older mining equipment.
• Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Dust Collector Bags for Reducing Dust Exposure of Roof Bolter Operators
  7/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper presents the results of NIOSH laboratory and field tests to evaluate the effectiveness of dust collector bags for reducing dust liberation and operator exposure from a roof bolter's dust collection system.
• Technology News 528 - Recirculation Filter Is Key to Improving Dust Control in Enclosed Cabs
  10/1/2007 - Technology News
  NIOSH has investigated various cab filtration system factors on a basic HVAC system in the laboratory to evaluate their effects on overall cab dust protection performance.
• A New Concept for Leak Testing Environmental Enclosure Filtration Systems
  11/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A method (patent pending) has been developed to determine the quality of environmental cab filtration systems. It utilizes specially configured filter cartridges to remove carbon dioxide from the ambient air with the environmental cab's air filtration s...
• Current NIOSH Dust Control Research for Noncoal Surface Mines
  9/1/2001 - Conference papers
  This report focuses on two areas of research to lower miners' exposure to respirable dust at surface operations. These areas deal with enclosed cabs methods to lower dust levels at surface drills.
• Field Assessment of Retrofitting Surface Coal Mine Equipment Cabs with Air Filtration Systems
  8/1/2000 - Conference papers
  Operator cabs on a front-end loader and a rotary rock drill were retrofitted with ceiling mounted heating/AC units and air filtration systems.