Download or read book Evolutionary and Revolutionary Technologies for Mining written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U. S. Department of Energy commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study on required technologies for the Mining Industries of the Future Program to complement information provided to the program by the National Mining Association. Subsequently, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health also became a sponsor of this study, and the Statement of Task was expanded to include health and safety. The overall objectives of this study are: (a) to review available information on the U.S. mining industry; (b) to identify critical research and development needs related to the exploration, mining, and processing of coal, minerals, and metals; and (c) to examine the federal contribution to research and development in mining processes.

Download or read book Mining Safety and Health Research at NIOSH written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. mining sector has the highest fatality rate of any industry in the country. Fortunately, advances made over the past three decades in mining technology, equipment, processes, procedures, and workforce education and training have significantly improved safety and health. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Safety and Health Research Program (Mining Program) has played a large role in these improvements. An assessment of the relevance and impact of NIOSH Mining Program research by a National Research Council committee reveals that the program makes essential contributions to the enhancement of health and safety in the mining industry. To further increase its effectiveness, the Mining Program should proactively identify workplace hazards and establish more challenging and innovative goals toward hazard reduction. The ability of the program to successfully expand its activities, however, depends on available funding.

Download or read book Mine Health and Safety Management written by Michael Karmis and published by SME. This book was released on 2001 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on instilling a safety culture and fostering the ability to recognize and manage health and safety responsibilities and requirements. It details effective and safety management systems and concentrates on safety and health hazard anticipation, identification, evaluation, and control.

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Download or read book Minerals Health and Safety In house Research Development and Demonstration in Fiscal Year 1981 written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Division of Minerals Health and Safety Technology and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Minerals Health and Safety Contract Research Development and Demonstration in Fiscal Year 1981 written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Division of Minerals Health and Safety Technology and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Investigation Into the Factors that Govern Success for New Safety and Health Technologies in the Mining Industry and the Efficacy of Those Factors to Predict the Likelihood of Success for Emerging Technologies written by Jacob Lawrence Carr and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mining industry faces many safety and health challenges, and these challenges are often addressed by the introduction of new technologies, many of which are introduced through legislative or regulatory mandates requiring the technologys use. Many such mandates have been enacted, causing dramatic changes to how work is conducted. Despite these mandates, there are cases in which the intended safety or health benefit of introducing a new technology was not achieved, or worse, cases in which some unintended negative consequence was created by the introduction of a new technology. Given the weighty consequences these mandates can have, both in terms of economic impacts as well as impacts on the safety and health of miners, it is increasingly critical to ensure that the technologies being mandated will achieve their intended benefit without introducing unintended negative consequences. To that end, the goal of the research presented in this dissertation was to identify the factors that govern the success of new safety and health technologies in the mining industry and to develop guidance for the timely and effective introduction of new safety and health technologies through legislative or regulatory mandates. This goal was accomplished through an analysis of several case studies of mining safety and health technology introduction, including mandated as well as voluntarily adopted interventions. For each case study, the development and diffusion of the technology was examined and indications that the technology achieved either a successful or an unsuccessful outcome was identified. Causal tree analysis was then used to identify the root causes for each of these successful and unsuccessful outcomes. The root causes identified for unsuccessful outcomes include, among other factors, the effect of biases on decisions made by researchers, regulators, and legislators. The analysis shows that these root causes lead to consequences including the failure of interventions to deliver their intended safety or health benefit or for new interventions to introduce unintended negative safety consequences. Using these root causes, a bowtie analysis was conducted to identify controls for preventing the enactment of legislative or regulatory mandates requiring the use of immature technologies and to mitigate the negative consequences of the enactment of such a mandate. These controls represent a set of guidelines that can be used to ensure that immature safety and health technologies are not introduced prematurely and that future mining safety and health regulations and legislation are as effective as possible at protecting the safety and health of miners. The implementation of these guidelines will result in more effective regulation, more impactful safety and health research, safer mines, and healthier miners.

Download or read book Advances in Productive Safe and Responsible Coal Mining written by Joseph Hirschi and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining covers the latest advancements in coal mining technology and practices. It gives a comprehensive introduction to the latest research and technology developments, addressing problems and issues currently being faced, and is a valuable resource of complied technical information on the latest coal mining safety and health research. As coal's staying power has been at the forefront of the world's energy mix for more than a century, this book explores critical issues affecting coal mining, including how to maintain low-cost productivity, address health and safety hazards, and how to be responsible environmental stewards. This book takes a holistic approach in addressing each issue from the perspective of its impact on the coal mining operation and industry as a whole. - Explains how to effectively produce coal within existing environmental constraints - Encapsulates the latest health and safety research and technological advances in the coal mining industry - Written by authors who have developed the latest technology for coal mines

Download or read book Understanding Human Error in Mine Safety written by Geoff Simpson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consideration of human factors issues is vital to the mining industry. As in other safety-critical domains, human performance problems constitute a significant threat to system safety, making the study of human factors an important field for improving safety in mining operations. The primary purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a much-needed overview of human factors within the mining industry, in particular to understand the role of human error in mine safety, explaining contemporary risk management and safety systems approaches. The approach taken is multidisciplinary and holistic, based on a model of the systems of work in the mining industry domain. The ingredients in this model include individual operators, groups/teams, technology/equipment, work organisation and the physical environment. Throughout the book, topics such as human error and safety management are covered through the use of real examples and case studies, allowing the reader to see the practical significance of the material presented while making the text rigorous, useful and enjoyable. Understanding Human Error in Mine Safety is written for professionals in the field, researchers and students of mining engineering, safety or human factors.

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Download or read book Minerals Health and Safety In house Research Development and Demonstration in Fiscal Year 1980 written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Division of Minerals Health and Safety Technology and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mining Equipment Reliability Maintainability and Safety written by Balbir S. Dhillon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins in the malachite mines of ancient Egypt, mining has grown to become a global industry which employs many hundreds of thousands of people. Today, the mining industry makes use of various types of complex and sophisticated equipment, for which reliability, maintainability and safety has become an important issue. Mining Equipment Reliability, Maintainability and Safety is the first book to cover these three topics in a single volume. Mining Equipment Reliability, Maintainability and Safety will be useful to a range of individuals from administrators and engineering professionals working in the mining industry to students, researchers and instructors in mining engineering, as well as design engineers and safety professionals. All topics covered in the book are treated in such a manner that the reader requires no previous knowledge to understand the contents. Examples, solutions and test problems are also included to aid reader comprehension.