PDMMS: A New Tool for Managing Personal Dust Monitor Data

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• Personal Author:
  Jackson T ; Petrice T ; Volkwein, Jon C.
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently developed the Personal Dust Monitor (PDM) for use in coal mines. Designed to be worn as a convenient part of a miner's regular protective equipment, the PDM detects worker exposure to respirable dust in real time. Extensive testing has shown the PDM to be an effective tool for measuring miners' dust exposure. The real-time data display empowers miners to reduce their work exposure to coal mine dust. Now new software makes it easier to transfer, secure and analyze data from the device. The PDM is manufactured commercially by Thermo Scientific. Included with the device is WinPDM, a software application for configuring the device settings. This software is also capable of producing a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file from PDM data, which is then exported into other applications for processing. Spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel can be used for simple analysis of the data; however, translating data from multiple instruments into summary reports requires substantial effort. In addition, tracking information for multiple days, specific occupations, groups of instruments, and other such scenarios becomes a complicated endeavor. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Environmental Monitoring Mining Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Software
• Keywords:
  Analytical-instruments Analytical-processes Coal-dust Coal-miners Coal-mining Computer-software Data-processing Dust-exposure Dust-measurement Dusts Equipment-design Exposure-assessment Exposure-levels Measurement-equipment Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Monitors Personal-protective-equipment Respirable-dust Underground-miners Underground-mining

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0009-9910
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OMSHR - Office of Mine Safety and Health Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  18-21
• Volume:
  116
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040042
• Citation:
  Coal Age 2011 Oct; 116(10):18-21
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Coal Age
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227392/cdc_227392_DS1.pdf
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