NIOSH Testimony on the Underground Coal Mine Safety Standard by J. D. Millar, December 1, 1982.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony consists of a letter from NIOSH regarding comments on the Initial Review of the Underground Coal Mine Safety Standard as carried out by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). NIOSH believes that to protect workers from hazardous chemicals and physical agents in underground mines, MSHA should continue to use, as a foundation for its health standards the NIOSH criteria documents when appropriate and, in their absence, the Threshold Limit Values of the American Conference of Governmental Industry Hygienists. NIOSH believes that most substances found in the TLV's list can be found in the mining workplace. Thus NIOSH supports retaining the entire list as mining health standards. NIOSH also encourages the review of all NIOSH recommendations made for general industry for their applicability to the mining environment. Statistically based sampling strategies should be considered for sampling air velocity in ventilation systems and for making measurements of explosive gas. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Testimony; Millar-J-D; Mining-industry; Safety-practices; Safety-equipment; Miners; Coal-mining; Underground-mining; Work-environment;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196901
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91169623
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1982 Dec:2 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 2 pages
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242994/cdc_242994_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]