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Safety Information


 Analysis of Surface Powered Haulage Accidents
    A reprint of September 1996 Holmes Safety Bulletin
 Equipment, Health and Safety Hazard Alerts
    A collection of equipment alerts, recall notices, health hazard alerts and safety hazard alert bulletins.
 Fall Prevention on Highwalls
    Labor, industry and MSHA have worked jointly to develop this outreach training program on fall prevention and protection for miners working on highwalls. It is a very broad program that includes control measures, hazard recognition, special precautions due to weather, fall prevention and fall protection.
 Holmes Safety Association Bulletins

 MSHA IG 60 - "Tire and Rim Safety Awareness Program"

 NIOSH/MSHA Portal-Pak Instruction Manual - Approval Number TC-13F-283

 Safety Director's Helper
    This web site contains non-traditional particiatory safety programs that draw on miners competitive spirit to participate. It is much more effective if you can sell a miner on safety rather than force it down his throat. MSHA is making these programs available for Safety Directors to stimulate miner participation in developing a strong safety culture at their mines.
 Safety Hazard Pocket Cards

 The Sentinels Of Safety Program
    The annual Sentinels of Safety award program recognizes achievement of outstanding safety records, to stimulate greater interest in safety and to encourage development of more effective accident prevention programs among the Nation's mineral extractive industries.
 Safety Web Casts
    A collection of safety material for both coal and metal/nonmetal operations used in web casts.
 Technical Reports
    A collection of technical reports covering such topics as blasting, dust, electrical, machinery and much more.



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