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NIOSH/DRDS/CWHSP celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
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12/17/04
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Description:In December 1969, Public Law 91-173, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, was signed into law “to protect the health and safety of persons working in the coal mining industry (The Act)”. In part, it directed the Secretaries of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Department of the Interior to “…improve and expand, in cooperation with the States and the coal mining industry, research and development and training programs aimed at preventing coal mine accidents and occupationally caused diseases in the industry.” (Section 2.g.4). Of specific interest to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Respiratory Disease Studies (DRDS), this legislation provided the basis and mandate for an underground coal miner health surveillance program (Section 203). This Program was later defined by Regulation in 42 CFR Part 37 and is currently administered through the NIOSH Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP), at the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health (ALOSH), in Morgantown, WV.
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