What Color Are Your Markers? Color of Escapeway Markers Does Make a Difference

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• Personal Author:
  Sammarco, John J.
• Description:
  The mining industry has made great strides in making mining safer and reducing the occurrence of mine disasters. Nevertheless, sometimes miners encounter smoke while trying to escape from a mine. Underground miners use different visual cues to help them escape from a smoke-filled environment. Foremost, miners look for primary and secondary escapeways that are typically indicated with reflective markers of various colors, with at least 11 colors available from manufacturers. Federal regulations require that escapeways be marked, but they do not specify the colors to be used. Thus, no standard color code exists and some colors can be more difficult to see in a smoke-filled mine. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Eye Mining Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Sense Organs Workplace
• Keywords:
  Color-perception Color-vision Mine-disasters Mine-escapes Miners Mining-industry Safety-measures Safety-programs Underground-miners Underground-mining Visual-aids Visual-perception Work-environment Workers

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0026-5187
• 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:
  22-23
• Volume:
  67
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047067
• Citation:
  Min Eng 2015 Feb; 67(2):22-23
• Email:
  Jsammarco@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Mining Engineering
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228196/cdc_228196_DS1.pdf
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