Mining Feature: New Editions of Dust Control Guides for Coal and Industrial Minerals
Monday, January 31, 2022
New Editions. New Solutions.
Learn the latest dust control best practices for coal mining and industrial minerals mining and processing in the new editions of two NIOSH guides. Dust control is essential to preventing diseases caused by dust exposure, such as silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis (commonly called black lung).
Best Practices for Dust Control in Coal Mining, 2nd ed. can help coal mine operators find control technologies that limit worker exposure to respirable dust and minimize float coal dust deposits. The controls discussed in this edition range from long-utilized controls that have developed into industry standards to emerging controls that continue to be researched.
Dust Control Handbook for Industrial Minerals Mining and Processing, 2nd ed. describes proven and effective control technologies that lower workers’ dust exposures during all stages of mineral processing. The handbook’s aim is to empower minerals industry personnel to apply state-of-the-art dust control technology to help reduce or eliminate mine and mill worker exposure to hazardous dust concentrations.
- Best Practices for Dust Control in Coal Mining. Second edition.
- Control of Respirable Dust
- Dust Control Handbook for Industrial Minerals Mining and Processing. Second edition.
- Dust Underfoot: Enclosed Cab Floor Heaters Can Significantly Increase Operator's Respirable Dust Exposure
- The Effects of Water Spray Placement for Controlling Respirable Dust and Face Methane Concentrations
- Evaluation of the Approach to Respirable Quartz Exposure Control in U.S. Coal Mines
- Improved Drill Shroud Capture of Respirable Dust Utilizing Air Nozzles Underneath the Drill Deck
- Improving Silica Dust Control Through Targeted Research
- Laboratory Testing To Quantify Dust Entrainment During Shield Advance
- Performance of a Light Scattering Dust Monitor at Various Air Velocities: Results of Sampling in the Active Versus the Passive Mode