Mining Feature: 10/19/2016 NIOSH Refuge Alternative Partnership Meeting
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
NIOSH Mining’s Pittsburgh location hosted the second Refuge Alternatives Partnership Meeting at the Bruceton Research Center on October 19, 2016.
Agenda topics included updates on contamination ingress and purging research, door research, heat and humidity research, and communications research, as well as many others. There was also time designated for open discussion and questions with the researchers.
Agenda
Click on presentation titles to view slides in PDF format. Presentation file hosting courtesy of the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association website.
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Time |
Topic/Title |
Presenter/Facilitator |
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7:15 AM – 8:00 AM |
Arrival and sign in |
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8:00 AM – 8:10 AM |
Dr. Jessica Kogel, NIOSH Mining Dr. RJ Matetic, NIOSH PMRD |
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8:10 AM – 8:30 AM |
Dr. Jim Noll, NIOSH PMRD |
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8:30 AM – 8:45 AM |
Dave Yantek, NIOSH PMRD |
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8:45 AM – 9:05 AM |
4. Heat & humidity, mine air and mine strata temperature field data |
Dave Yantek, NIOSH PMRD |
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9:05 AM – 9:20 AM |
Break |
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9:20 AM – 9:45 AM |
Dr. Tom Bernard, University of South Florida |
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9:45 AM – 10:10 AM |
Mark Klein, ThermoAnalytics |
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10:10 AM – 10:35 AM |
Dr. George Danko, University of Nevada Reno |
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10:35 AM – 10:50 AM |
Break |
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10:50 AM – 11:15 AM |
Ken Deaton, DRS |
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11:15AM – 11:40 AM |
Ed Roscioli, BCS/ChemBio |
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11:40 AM – 12:05 PM |
10. Protected compressed air lines |
Dr. Jhon Silva-Castro, University of Kentucky |
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12:05 PM – 12:30 PM |
David Hales, Westmoreland Coal |
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12:30 PM – 1:00 PM |
Lunch on site |
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1:00 PM – 1:50 PM |
Open discussion of RA issues/concerns |
Pete Kovalchik, Joe Lamonica, NIOSH-PMRD |
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1:50 PM – 2:00 PM |
Break |
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MSHA Forum |
Presenter/Facilitator |
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2:00 PM – 2:30 PM |
Overview of 2018 RA structural component requirements |
Brittany Wilson, MSHA |
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2:30 PM – 3:15 PM |
Impacts of structural approvals – What these mean to the mine operator (refits of tent, derating, etc.) |
Wesley Shumaker, Ben Gandy, MSHA |
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3:15 PM – 3:35 PM |
Charting path forward |
Mike Getto, MSHA |
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3:35 PM – 4:00 PM |
Open discussion and questions/answers |
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