Personal Dust Monitor: Empowering the Worker

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• Personal Author:
  Thimons, Edward D.
• Description:
  A POWERFUL alliance between government, union, operators and government has supported the development of the Personal Dust Monitor (PDM), now at the stage of 25 new monitors being manufactured for extensive underground testing beginning in spring 2004. Here NIOSH health branch chief Edward Thimons looks at the partnership players, history and development of the PDM. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Particulate Matter Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Dust-analysis Dust-counters Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Dust-measurement Dust-particles Dust-sampling Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Occupational-hazards Particle-aerodynamics Particulate-dust Particulate-sampling-methods Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Work-analysis Work-areas Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033378
• Citation:
  Int Longwall News 2004 Feb; :22216
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  International Longwall News
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a97e654b724af794c3318d0fa2ddb9b0f7221e31e34341c0d5fb966cc46dd4a4f9a01bc5c0c20d89c45f1a02635a291488f65e461799a90290b140c5f676f86
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226908/cdc_226908_DS1.pdf
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