CDC - Mining Products

Equipment

Guidelines

Guides & Handbooks

Best Practices for Dust Control in Coal Mining 1/1/2010
This handbook was developed to identify available engineering controls that can help the industry reduce worker exposure to respirable coal and silica dust.
Best Practices for Dust Control in Metal/Nonmetal Mining 5/1/2010
This handbook was developed to identify available engineering controls that can assist underground and surface metal/nonmetal mining operations in reducing worker exposure to respirable silica dust.
Control Design Principles 5/7/2013
Selecting the best controls with which an operator interfaces with the equipment is critical to maximizing operator-machine performance
Diesel Aerosols and Gases in Underground Mines: Guide to Exposure Assessment and Control 10/1/2011
A comprehensive guide to establish a program to curtail diesel particulate matter emissions, control pollutants after release in an underground mine environment and reduce exposures using administrative controls.
Dust Control Handbook for Industrial Minerals Mining and Processing 1/1/2012
Mined ore undergoes crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, and product sizing as it is processed, generating harmful dust. This handbook reviews technologies for lowering dust levels below the permissible or recommended occupational exposure limits.
Explosion Pressure Design Criteria for New Seals in U.S. Coal Mines 7/1/2007
This report provides a sound scientific and engineering justification to recommend a three-tiered explosion pressure design criterion for new seals. The recommendations contained herein apply to new seal design and construction in U.S. coal mines.
Recommendations for Refuge Chamber Operations Training 6/1/2011
Refuge alternatives are airtight, reinforced shelters that underground coal miners can enter during a mine emergency. This publication provides recommendations for training miners in how to operate a refuge chamber.
Seating Design Principles 5/6/2013
OMSHR has developed a guide for designing seating for undergound mobile mining equipment.

Software (Analysis)

Software (Educational)

Software (Utility)

Training Exercises

Age Awareness Training for Miners 6/1/2008
The purpose of this training is to provide the information necessary to develop an appreciation of the changes that occur with age and an understanding of methods that can be used to reduce the injury risk that may result.
Coaching Skills for On-the-Job Trainers 8/1/2005
This training package describes how to develop or manage an on-the-job training program so that information is passed on from trainer/coach to trainee efficiently and effectively.
Emergency Escape & Refuge Alternatives 10/1/2010
Emergency escape and refuge alternatives was created by a multidisciplinary team at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to teach miners about emergency escape and using refuge alternatives. The training is a Microsoft Power...
Ergonomics and Risk Factor Awareness Training for Miners 7/1/2008
This training will increase awareness of risk factors and encourage miners to take action to report and reduce their exposures to risk factors.
Escape From Farmington No. 9: An Oral History 5/1/2009
This video-based training module can be used to educate both inexperienced and veteran miners on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
Focus on Prevention: Conducting a Fire Risk Assessment 10/1/1999
The first step to emergency preparedness is defining and analyzing hazards. Although all hazards should be addressed, resource limitations usually do not allow this to happen all at once.
Harry’s Hard Choices: Mine Refuge Chamber Training 3/1/2009
This paper-and-pencil simulation teaches miners about issues related to self-rescue and escape, including information gathering, knowing one's escapeways, use of SCSRs, the value of multigas detectors, and when to enter a refuge chamber.
How to Operate a Refuge Chamber: A Quick Start Guide 10/1/2010
How to Operate a Refuge Chamber: A Quick Start Guide was created by researchers at NIOSH to be used as a template for mine instructors to modify based on the refuge chambers used at their mine.
Man Mountain’s Refuge: Refuge Chamber Training Instructor’s Guide and Trainee’s Problem Book 7/1/2011
This instructor’s guide is designed for use by instructors who train mine employees on how and when to use a mine refuge chamber, and aids the instructor in reinforcing the critical decisions that have to be made during a mining emergency.
Nonverbal Communication for Mine Emergencies 11/1/2011
Nonverbal Communication for Mine Emergencies is a training program that teaches miners a series of nonverbal hand signals to use in the event of an emergency. These hand signals can be used by miners if they are unable to communicate verbally.
Radio 101: Operating Two-Way Radios Every Day and in Emergencies 8/1/2011
Radio 101 is a program to train miners in the use of two-way radio communication in the mines.
Refuge Chamber Expectations Training - 1.0 10/1/2009
Refuge Chamber Expectations Training was created by a multidisciplinary team at NIOSH to inform miners of what to expect psychologically and physically if it became necessary to use a refuge chamber in a mine emergency.
Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Dave Garry 1/1/1992
A videotaped interview with a miner helper who witnessed a roof fall that convered the continuous mining machine. An instructor's guide is included to help you use this video as part of an effective training session.
Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Dave Murone 1/1/1992
A videotaped interview with Dave about the experience of recovering the body of a friend who was killed by a roof fall while under unsupported top.
Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Larry Strayer 1/1/1992
A videotaped interview with a miner about a fall that occurred while he and another miner were attempting to bar down top just inby the last row of supports. An instructor's guide lets you use the video as part of an effective training session.
The Emergency Communication Triangle 10/1/1999
This training material focuses on the content of emergency warning messages. A procedure, using mental cues that can be used by senders and receivers of emergency warnings, is presented.
Toolbox Training For Construction Aggregate Miners 8/1/2004
This NIOSH Toolbox Training program contains 52 different modules designed to stimulate safety discussions among employees. Each module is intended to be completed in roughly 10 or 15 minutes, so a Toolbox Training session can be conducted once a week...
Toolbox Training on Flyrock Awareness 12/1/2005
A training product to improve blast safety by providing information about blasting to those who work around blast sites
Underground Coal Mine Map Reading Training - 1.1 5/1/2009
This training includes three components for teaching and testing mine map reading skills.
When Do You Take Refuge? Decisionmaking During Mine Emergency Escape 8/1/2011
This training exposes trainees to the types of decisions that they may need to make during a mine emergency escape and stimulate group discussion about when and why to use a refuge alternative.

Training Supplies

Videos

Aggregate Training for the Safety Impaired 1/1/2007
This video follows two new hires through their first week on the job. Ted and Slick have not paid attention in training class and prove to be hazards to themselves as well as everyone around them.
Arc Flash Awareness 1/1/2007
This video focuses on individual and organizational behavior related to arc flash events over an 11-year period in the mining industry.
Blast Area Security 1/1/2007
This video provides information about blast area security to those working around blast sites.
Clothes Cleaning Process 1/1/2004
This clothes cleaning system is a quick, safe, and effective method to safely remove dust from a worker's clothing without exposing the worker, the work environment, or co-workers to respirable dust.
Escape From Farmington No. 9: An Oral History 5/1/2009
This video-based training module can be used to educate both inexperienced and veteran miners on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
Hazards in Motion 1/1/2001
The Hazards In Motion video teaches mobile equipment safety for underground miners.
Hidden Scars 1/1/2001
Hidden Scars is an interview with veteran hard rock who recounts the events surrounding a 1994 rock burst that buried him and his partner, killing his partner and severely injuring him.
How to use the Coal Dust Explosibility Meter 4/18/2013
This is a series of 5 videos explaining how to use the coal dust explosibility meter.
How to Wear Soft Foam Earplugs (Roll-Pull-Hold) 3/1/2003
This video demonstrates how to insert soft foam earplugs.
Make it Safer with Roof Screen 3/1/2005
This 7-minute video with instructional material shows how well roof screen keeps loose rock from falling in difficult roof conditions.
Miner Mike Saves the Day! or Ground Support... It's Important! 1/1/2000
This video teaches the necessity and use of ground supports.
Reducing Dust Inside Enclosed Cabs 10/20/2009
This study Identifies a number of significant factors that determine how effective an enclosed cab will be at protecting a worker.
Rock Falls - Preventing Rock Fall Injuries in Underground Mines 1/1/1999
This video teaches the importance of proper roof scaling in underground mining to avoid injury and improve work conditions.
Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Dave Garry 1/1/1992
A videotaped interview with a miner helper who witnessed a roof fall that convered the continuous mining machine. An instructor's guide is included to help you use this video as part of an effective training session.
Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Dave Murone 1/1/1992
A videotaped interview with Dave about the experience of recovering the body of a friend who was killed by a roof fall while under unsupported top.
Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Larry Strayer 1/1/1992
A videotaped interview with a miner about a fall that occurred while he and another miner were attempting to bar down top just inby the last row of supports. An instructor's guide lets you use the video as part of an effective training session.
You Are My Sunshine 1/1/2002
This video tells the story of the Sunshine Mine Disaster of 1972 through the eyes of 27 people who lived through it.
Zen and the Art of Rockbolting 1/1/2002
The main theme of this video is how to work safely AND efficiently.