Demonstrating the Financial Impact of Mining Injuries with the Updated Safety Pays in Mining v2.0 Web Application

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• Personal Author:
  Heberger JR ; Ngo BH
• Description:
  The Safety Pays in Mining v2.0 web application, developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Program, helps mines determine the potential costs associated with mining injuries. This web app categorizes injury cost by part of body injured, by the cause of the injury, or by the nature of the injury. When the user selects one of over 150 common types of mining injuries, the app provides information on the distribution of costs of workers' compensation claims for that type of injury. Based on other user inputs, Safety Pays in Mining v2.0 will estimate the total costs of the selected injuries and the estimated impact of total injury costs on mining company profits and will provide some examples of services and personal protective equipment on which companies could spend the savings that result from the prevention of injuries. This paper reviews the Safety Pays in Mining version 2.0 web application by discussing the development and updates to the app, how it is used to show the true costs of mining injuries, and how mines can benefit from using this app. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Software
• Keywords:
  Computer Applications Costs Injuries Mining Industry Personal Protective Equipment PPE Workers Compensation
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069437
• Citation:
  MineXchange: 2024 SME Annual Conference & Expo, February 25-28, 2024, Phoenix, Arizona, preprint 24-023. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 2024 Feb; :1-10
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  MineXchange: 2024 SME Annual Conference & Expo, February 25-28, 2024, Phoenix, Arizona, preprint 24-023
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4240d0cc223ff4b92599665b074a02dc006792c7e3218fec3378ad5fcebd864d78232d945bc578b9792d78b5ce884a128136b10345eeb5e06df109e612a237c3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/215672/cdc_215672_DS1.pdf
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