Proceedings of the 30th Annual Institute on Mining Health, Safety and Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 8–11, 1999

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• Personal Author:
  Jenkins, F. Michael ; Langton J ; McCarter MK ; Rowe B
• Description:
  A study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on occupational deaths between 1980 and 1989 indicated that the mining industry had the highest average annual fatality rate (31.9 per 100,000 workers) of any industry in the United States. Mining also carries the highest risk for accidents in 23 states and accounts for the largest number of occupational deaths in three states. Researchers believe that the use of virtual reality- (VR-) based training tools will help to reduce these injury and fatality numbers. Accordingly, researchers at NIOSH's Spokane Research Laboratory are developing software that utilizes inexpensive computer hardware to deliver an immersive desktop VR experience to educate mine workers on the hazards of mining, as well as to train miners in evacuation routes and evacuation procedures. In addition, SRL researchers are developing computer animation techniques used to reconstruct mining accidents. These reconstructions will be used to train miners to recognize and avoid hazardous situations at the job site. Computer-based training tools offer several distinct advantages over more conventional training tools. Computer-based tools provide a three-dimensional immersive environment that allows the trainee to experience mining hazards and view mine accidents without actually being exposed to such hazards. This "time-on-task" will help reinforce the learning acquired during more conventional classroom instruction. In addition, the inherent flexibility of this type of tool allows the training material to be tailored to meet the requirements of individual mines. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Construction Industry Dust Environmental Monitoring Geology Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Maintenance Mining Mortality Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Personal Protective Equipment Safety Silicon Dioxide Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accidents Age-factors Air-filters Air-monitoring Coal-miners Coal-mining Construction-workers Dust-control Dust-control-equipment Dust-exposure Dust-suppression Dusts Equipment-operators Geophysics Ground-control Hearing-loss Hearing-protection Injuries Injury-prevention Maintenance-workers Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Mortality-data Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss Noise-levels Noise-pollution Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Respirable-dust Safety-education Silica-dusts Slope-stability Statistical-analysis Surface-mining Training Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Underground-miners Underground-mining Work-areas Workers Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-116
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030079
• Citation:
  Jenkins FM, Langton J, McCarter MK, Rowe B, eds. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999 Aug; :1-116
• Editor(s):
  Jenkins FM; Langton J; McCarter MK; Rowe B
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 30th Annual Institute on Mining Health, Safety and Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 8-11, 1999
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2dab6f009de3f02b2e8a70e3c79dff3c1c262a56c72811f124b7d81afc8729c87e2f7074851b365f5139a75adc7f0163e69158a416885ae14adee1fd12d68cf8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221174/cdc_221174_DS1.pdf
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