NIOSH Mining Program Partnerships
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The NIOSH Mining Program engages in partnerships with its stakeholders to share information and solutions about some of the most pressing health and safety issues. Currently active partnerships include:
- Breathing Air Supply Partnership: Addresses issues about improving breathing air supply technology for mine escape and rescue.
- Respirable Mine Dust Partnership: MSHA/NIOSH partnership to address issues concerning exposures to a broad range of respirable hazards, including respirable crystalline silica (quartz).
- Diesel Exhaust Health Effects Partnership: MSHA/NIOSH partnership to share information about solutions to the health effects of exposure to diesel exhaust gases.
- Rock Dust Partnership: Addresses issues about using rock dust to prevent coal dust explosions.
- Automation and Emerging Technologies Partnership: Addresses concerns and shares solutions regarding automation and emerging technologies.
- Miner Health Partnership: A partnership between the NIOSH Mining Program, MSHA, unions, academia, and labor and trade groups to share information concerning miner health
Previous Partnerships
- Proximity Detection Partnership: Addressed issues about proximity warning and collision prevention systems in underground coal mines.
- Refuge Alternative Partnership: Addresses issues about refuge alternatives in underground coal mines.
See Also
- Coal Mine Explosion Prevention Accomplishments
- A Compendium of NIOSH Mining Research 2000
- A Compendium of NIOSH Mining Research 2001
- A Compendium of NIOSH Mining Research 2002
- History of the Mining Program
- Mining Program
- NIOSH OMSHR at the 2015 SME Annual Meeting
- NIOSH Welcomes its New Associate Director for Mining
- OMSHR at the 2013 SME Annual Meeting
- OMSHR Welcomes a New Director to its Spokane Mining Research Division
- OMSHR's New Website
Page last reviewed: May 11, 2022
Page last updated: February 4, 2020
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program