Recommendations for Minimal Luminance Requirements for Metal and Nonmetal Mines

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• Personal Author:
  Crooks WH ; Merritt JO ; Perry TJ ; Uhlaner JE
• Description:
  The primary objective of this research program was to recommend ranges of minimum luminance for safety in underground metal and nonmetal mining. Visual tasks critical to safety were identified and rank ordered. Realistic full-scale dynamic task simulations encompassing the most important visual components of the critical tasks were installed in a large simulated workspace. Five trained observers performed the six simulated mining tasks under varying levels of luminance. Over 13,000 measurements of visual task performance were used in developing minimum luminance recommendations for the on-foot underground worker and the mobile equipment operator. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-236
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10004601
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-215689
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB/85-215689 :236 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Performing Organization:
  Perceptronics, Inc.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB/85-215689
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:55126bfea517491830f0aaecf8d288f119a5262e111eb71a4aedfedd53107f1eef9ba35fee152de847cd90b38e5288430da1eb16b1e33ffb058a1a7b3b45f467
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/235277/cdc_235277_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.55 MB ]