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Safety & Health Information
General Interest Items
- Safety and Health Topics
A comprehensive listing of safety and health information.
- Accident Cost Generator
A tool that calculates the hidden costs of accidents at the work place.
- Asbestos Single Source Page
This single source page will provide you with information and resources regarding Asbestos.
- A Guide to Miner's Rights....
"A Guide to Miner's Rights and Responsibilities Under the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977"
- Best Practice Pocket Cards
"A collection of Best Practice cards. Some are in Spanish."
- Diesel Equipment - Health and Safety
"We have designed this page to provide you with a single page to all the Diesel related material we have. It is a work in progress."
- Diesel Particulate Final Rules Single Source Page
"Part II Diesel Particulate Final Rules
Single Source Page"
- Equipment Guarding
This Guide (OT 3) is provided to assist the mining community with designing, installing and maintaining equipment guards to prevent miners from contacting hazardous moving machine parts. Contact with machine parts may result in serious accidents or death. Proper equipment guarding is essential to reduce this risk of injury. Revised 2004
- Equipment Related Accidents
A listing of equipment related accidents by equipment type and year of accident.
- Hazcom Helper
NIOSH’s HazCom Helper provides individuals responsible for writing a MSHA HazCom written program with software to aid in writing their HazCom program and for identifying hazardous chemicals on site. MSHA’s new HazCom rule (30 CFR Part 47) requires all mines to determine which chemicals are hazardous, write a Hazard Communication Program, label all containers containing hazardous chemicals, keep MSDS’s for all hazardous chemicals, provide HazCom training to employees, and to make the HazCom information available to employees.
- Health Standards for Occupational Noise Exposure
A single source page for all documents related to Health Standards for Occupational Noise Exposure.
NIOSH, NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL TEAM FOR PRACTICAL ADVICE ON PREVENTING HEARING LOSS
The
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) joins with the National Safety Council to provide workers and employers with practical information and advice on preventing
work-related hearing loss, one of the most common occupational illnesses
in the U.S.
- Longwall Respirable Dust Control
- Mine Hazard Awareness Campaign
- Mine Rescue Home Page
- MSHA's Accident Prevention Program (APP)
This site includes "Safety Ideas", "Miner's Tips" and much more... Things that may well save your life.
- MSHA's Illness Prevention Program (IPP)
This site includes "Health Ideas", "Miner's Tips" and much more... Remember - Your Health Comes First!
- Murphy's Laws for Coal Mine Safety
- NIOSH - Health Hazard Evaluation Program
- NIOSH - Mining Safety and Health Research
- Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program
- Quick-Change Water Spray System
Would you like the flexibility of easily changing out clogged water sprays? The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has learned of an innovative water spray system designed by Mr. Phil Southern where this is made possible.
- Surface Powered Haulage Safety (IG 56)
- Tool Boxes
A Collection of Tool Boxes
- Underground Mining Electrical Safety Training
This electrical awareness program consists of a set of question and answer slides available in either Microsoft Powerpoint® format or HTML.
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