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Information Circular 9219: Reducing Miner Absenteeism

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  • Description:
    The U.S. Bureau of Mines has prepared this report on strategies for maintaining high job attendance among underground coal miners because high absenteeism is a threat to miners' safety and seriously hampers productivity. A substantial number of research studies on the effectiveness of various strategies for reducing absenteeism among the employees of nonmining industries have been reported in the literature. These strategies have aimed at improving job attendance through one or more of the following: (1) improving employment procedures, (2) overcoming problems that adversely affect one's ability to attend work, and (3) increasing miners' motivation to attend work. Many of these strategies appear applicable to the mining industry, and are reviewed in the first half of this report. The second half of this report describes how one could develop and implement a program for maintaining high attendance at underground coal mines. The steps include measuring and evaluating attendance levels, formulating attendance goals and an absenteeism policy, developing and implementing an attendance promotion program, and periodically going through the preceding steps (known as recycling). [Description provided by NIOSH]
  • Subjects:
  • Series:
    Mining Publications
  • Subseries:
    Information Circular
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Report
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Division:
    PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    34 pdf pages
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:10007025
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    1989
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:3e9ce2ef6292b00eecf5a26f2c3c4998d39d263d3fc91130c5676287f10c5962f57f0cb29ef76b6386739912e5497229acc1380c10ba383cdaf6519de8e242f8
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