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- Equipment, tools, and parts:
- Personal protective equipment
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- Gloves
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- Ear and hearing protection
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- Earmuffs
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- Earplugs
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- Back belts
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- Respiratory protection
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- Gas protecting respirators
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- Supplied air respirators
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- Self contained breathing apparatus
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- Closed circuit breathing apparatus
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- Foot and leg protection
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- Knee pads
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- Safety footwear
- Document types:
- Peer reviewed journal articles
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Results 1 - 10 of 17
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11/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis 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.
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8/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articlesFor 10 subjects in four postures, euler angle decomposition and inverse dynamics were used to determine the knee angles, the net forces, and the moments applied to the tibia during kneeling and squatting with and without kneepads.
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12/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis study examines stress transmitted to anatomic landmarks of the knee (patella, combined patella tendon, and tibial tubercle) while in static kneeling postures without kneepads and while wearing two kneepads commonly used in the mining industry.
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7/13/2022 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper provides details on hand and finger injuries in the U.S. mining industry.
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7/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study discussing the effects of metatarsal work boots on gait when walking in different conditions.
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10/5/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article that introduces a new method for the quantifying boot outsole wear.
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1/1/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA report on the development of linear regression models that can be used to determine peak and average oxygen consumption rates as well as total oxygen consumption.
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9/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper describes the results of initial testing of the NIOSH Multifit4 system that was designed to be used as a tool by qualified researchers to evaluate hearing protector training and fit interventions at worksites.
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10/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis study investigated human response issues related to wearing a self-contained self-rescuer(SCSR). The goal was to develop training to educate miners on what they could expect from their units during an escape.
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2/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThe motivation behind this investigation was to apply an established theory to better understand three potential antecedents to intentions toward wearing hearing protection among coal miners.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program