Mining Feature: NIOSH at SME 2024
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Are you attending 2024's MINEXCHANGE, SME's Annual Conference and Expo? We'll be there February 25-28 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Plan to come see us at Booth #1325!
Learn how you can apply mining research at your operation by attending our technical presentations. See the schedule below:
Monday, February 26th
| Room/Time | Session/Presentation |
|---|---|
| North 126A | Industrial Minerals & Aggregates: Mine Design in Industrial Minerals and Aggregates |
| 2:05 pm | Enhancing Ventilation and Development Planning in Underground Stone Mines: Insights from a CFD-based Study Khaled Mohamed, Vasu Gangrade, and Vaibhav Raj |
| North 127C | Health & Safety: The Role of Technology and Innovation Advancing H&S in Mining |
| 2:05 pm | Ground Truth Instrument Testing to Evaluate Surface Haul Truck Collision Warning/Avoidance Systems Chenming Zhou, Jacob Carr, and David Yantek |
| 3:45 pm | An Overview of NIOSH Safety and Health Research on Robotics and Automation in the Mining Industry Jacob Carr, Steven Sawyer, Robert Bissonnette, W. Randy Reed, and Michael McNinch |
| North 128A | Health & Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management |
| 2:25 pm | Characterizing Mine Fire in Large Underground Ventilation Networks Using Machine Learning Davood Bahrami, Yuting Xue, and Liming Yuan |
| North 227B | Coal & Energy: Best of Ground Control |
| 2:45 pm | Coal Pillar Rib Stability: A Regression Model Based on Distinct Element Method Khaled Mohamed and Morgan Sears |
| North 222B | Mining & Exploration: Geosciences: Best Practices in Ground Support in Underground Mines |
| 2:45 pm | A Study on the Impact of In-seam Rock Partings on Coal Pillar Strength Based on Field Instrumentation and Numerical Modeling at the Maple Eagle Mine Morgan Sears |
| North 225B | History of Mining |
| 3:05 pm | Island Creek Coal Company - A Coal Pioneer George Luxbacher |
| North 125B | Industrial Minerals & Aggregates: Digitalization and Automation in Industrial Minerals and Aggregates |
| 3:45 pm | Selecting Filters for Both Mine Dust Mass and Crystalline Silica Measurements in Mines Robert Bissonnette |
| Alhambra Room, Sheraton | NIOSH - NORA Mining Sector Council Meeting |
| 4:30 pm | George Luxbacher and W. Randy Reed |
Tuesday, February 27th
| Room/Time | Session/Presentation |
|---|---|
| North 127C | Health & Safety: Total Worker Health |
| 9:25 am | What Do the Indicators of Workers' Mental Health Status in Mining and Other Industries and Occupations Tell Us? Aaron Sussell and Gerald Poplin |
| 10:25 am | Explosion-proof Enclosure Failure to Contain a Lithium-ion Battery Thermal Runaway Thomas Dubaniewicz |
| North 227B | Coal & Energy: Ventilation Innovations I |
| 9:25 am | Enhancing Air Quality in Underground Stone Mines: Evaluating the Efficacy of an Auxiliary Fan Air-filtration to Reduce DPM Vasu Gangrade |
| 10:45 am | Estimating Air Blast Velocity Using Optical Flow Algorithm Vasu Gangrade |
| North 221C | Inclusion & Diversity: Best Practices and Case Studies in Implementing I&D Programs |
| 10:05 am | The Development of Spokane Mining Research Division's Diversity and Inclusion Committee Casey Stazick |
| North 222A | Mining & Exploration: Innovation and Technology: Applications and Design Considerations for Battery Equipment in Mining |
| 10:25 am | Concerns with the Environmental Susceptibility of Mine Utility Vehicle and Rubber-tired Mantrip Li-ion Batteries David Yantek |
| North 125A | Bridging the Gap: Linking Academic Research on Ground Control to Practical Use in the Mining Industry |
| 2:05 pm | Panel Discussion Zoheir Khademian and Ted Klemetti |
| North 127C | Health & Safety: Leadership Practices and Behavioral Science |
| 2:25 pm | Safety Pays in Mining v2.0 - Demonstrating the Financial Impact of Injuries in Mining John Heberger |
| 2:45 pm | Lessons Learned from Haul Truck Operator Near-miss Events: Use of Critical Decision Method to Identify Strategies and Interventions for Haul Truck Safety Jennica Bellanca |
| 3:05 pm | Industry Perspectives on Mineworker Fatigue: Findings from a Needs Assessment Zoe Dugdale and Timothy Bauerle |
| North 128A | Health & Safety: Health & Safety in Industrial Minerals |
| 2:45 pm | Canopy Air Curtain to Reduce Diesel Particulate Matter Exposure for Underground Blasters Steven Mischler |
| 3:45 pm | Changes in Principle Horizontal Stress Direction Contributing to Massive Roof Collapse at the Subtropolis Mine Nicole Evanek and Gamal Rashed |
| North 126C | NIOSH Automation Partnership Program |
| 3:30 pm | Topic Selection Meeting for the NIOSH Mine Automation and Emerging Technologies Health and Safety Partnership |
Wednesday, February 28th
| Room/Time | Session/Presentation |
|---|---|
| North 222B | Mining & Exploration: Management: People Management: Building and Maintaining Safety Cultures |
| 9:05 am | Panel Discussion Emily Haas |
| North 128B | Ground Control: From Surveillance to Practice |
| 9:05 am | Thermal Runaway Pressures as a Function on Free Space in Sealed Containers for Lithium Titanate Cells Connor Brown and Thomas Dubaniewicz |
| 9:45 am | An Integrated Method to Classify Ground-fall Accidents and to Estimate Ground-fall Trends in US Mines Using Machine Learning Algorithms Gamal Rashed, Yuting Xue, Connor Brown, Zoheir Khademian, and Khaled Mohamed |
| 10:05 am | Quantifying the Texture of Coal Images with Different Lithotypes Through Grey-level Co-occurrence Matrix Yuting Xue, Khaled Mohamed, and Mark Van Dyke |
| 10:25 am | Ground Control: From Surveillance to Practice Mark Van Dyke |
| 10:45 am | Ground Control Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners on Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Currently Used by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Todd Minoski, Matthew McElhinney, and Morgan Sears |
| 11:05 am | Best Practices for Ensuring Safety in Field Studies: A Comprehensive Guide for Mining Researchers and Operators Matthew McElhinney, Todd Minoski, and Morgan Sears |
| North 226B | Coal & Energy: Innovation & Technology: Automation in the Mining Value Chain II |
| 9:25 am | Robot Deployment and Operations at Mine Incidents and Emergencies Steven Sawyer |
| 9:45 am | Analyzing the Effectiveness of Fire Suppression Systems to Extinguish a Fire on Mobile Diesel Equipment Used in the Mining Industry James Rowland, Davood Bahrami, and Liming Yuan |
| 10:25 am | Examining Pull-out Tests for Resin Grouted Rib Bolts: A Comprehensive Analysis Khaled Mohamed and Yuting Xue |
| North 225B | Mining & Exploration: Innovation & Technology: Automation Across the Full Mining Lifecycle |
| 9:45 am | Machine Situational Awareness in Mining Systems: Addressing Special Circumstances and Barriers to Autonomy Robert Bissonette |
| 10:05 am | Mine Wireless Systems: Interference Risks and Regulatory Implications Carl Sunderman |
| 10:25 am | Who Goes There? Creating Robust Object Detection and Multi-target Tracking in Support of Autonomous Mining Equipment Michael McNinch |
| North 127C | Health & Safety: Case Studies in Exposure Assessment |
| 9:45 am | Real-time Dust Monitoring in Occupational Environments: A Case Study on Leveraging Low-cost Dust Monitors for Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Cody Wolfe and Milan Yekich |
| 11:05 am | Case Studies of Video-assisted Exposure Monitoring for Respirable Mine Dust Milan Yekich |
| North 226A | Coal & Energy: Coal Mine Rock Mechanics |
| 2:05 pm | NIOSH Gas Well Stability Research: Investigation into the Causes of an Anomalous Shale Gas Well Casing Deformation at a Deep Longwall Mine Wen Su |
| 2:25 pm | Validation of Modeled Rockmass Permeability Against Field Measurements in a Longwall Mine Zoheir Khademian |
| 3:25 pm | A Systematic Global Review of Factors Associated with Dynamic Failure Occurrence in Coal Seams Heather Lawson |
| North 127C | Health & Safety: NORA - Applied Technologies for Silica Dust Control |
| 2:05 pm | NIOSH MINER Act Extramural Research for Silica Dust W. Randy Reed and George Luxbacher |
| 3:05 pm | Reducing Operator Exposure to Respirable Dusts - Tangible Highlights of NIOSH and Industry Partnerships Milan Yekich |
| 3:45 pm | Practical Application of Surfactants for Respirable Silica Dust Control W. Randy Reed |
| North 222B | Mining & Exploration: Geosciences: Practical Elements of Surface Geotechnical Design and Risk Mitigation |
| 2:25 pm | Designing a Rockfall Testing Program for Open Pit Mines to Investigate Runout and Bench Catchment Tyler Emery |
| North 227B | Coal & Energy: Ventilation Innovations II |
| 3:05 pm | Mine Ventilation Pathway Simulation on a Hypothetical Shale Gas Well Breach Utilizing the Longwall Instrumented Aerodynamic Model (LIAM) Robert Kimutis |
Page last reviewed: February 21, 2024
Page last updated: February 21, 2024
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program