Mining Surveillance and Health Hazard Evaluation Activities of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

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• Personal Author:
  Wagner, William L.
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) was created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and was formed from the Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health in the U. S. Public Health Service. Under the 1970 Act NIOSH had no mandate for mining related activities; however, the responsibilities of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the provisions of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, were transferred from the Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health to NIOSH. Thus, betWeen 1970 and 1977, NIOSH mining related efforts were concentrated on the coal mining industry. There was some research activity in the metal and non-metallic area, primarily dealing with uranium miners and an investigation of silica and diesel exhaust exposures conducted jointly with the Bureau of Mines and the Mine Enforcement and Safety Administration (now MSHA). With the passage of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977, the NIOSH mandate was expanded to include new health-related responsibilities applicable to the entire mining industry. Three papers will be presented at this session to provide an overview of NIOSH activities which implement various provisions of the 1977 Act. This paper presents a review of the Mining Industries Surveillance Project and the Mining Heal th Hazard Evaluations Project. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution Air Pollution, Indoor Coal Coal Mining Dust Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Silicon Dioxide Uranium Vehicle Emissions

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality Air-quality-control Air-quality-monitoring Airborne-dusts Airborne-particles Coal-miners Coal-mining Diesel-exhausts Dust-analysis Dust-control Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Dust-suppression Dusts Environmental-contamination Environmental-hazards Environmental-health-monitoring Environmental-pollution Health-hazards Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Respirable-dust Silica-dusts Surveillance-programs Toxic-materials Toxins Underground-miners Underground-mining Uranium-miners Uranium-mining

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• Publisher:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  85-111
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030914
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30, 1979. Shaw CT, ed., Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979 Aug; :85-111
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Nitrogen (CAS RN 7727-37-9) ; Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7) ; Uranium (CAS RN 7440-61-1)
• Editor(s):
  Shaw CT
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30, 1979
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0a1ac3c2cca73d470ef179b3cd04cb4241e292a33ddffda294558e4b8b5fb8c3fe2e6bfb18e1acfceaef2e3a9a4a3b333b078dc57d0c222ad17bba3e0ae751ed
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191353/cdc_191353_DS1.pdf
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