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NIOSH Programs > Mining > Program Description MiningProgram DescriptionOur vision is to deliver on the Nation's promise: safety and health at work for all people through research and prevention. The mission of the Mining Program is to eliminate occupational diseases, injuries, and fatalities from the mining workplace through a focused program of research and prevention. The program has the following characteristics:
Mining research within the Institute began transitioning into this program-based approach in 2000. The strategic goal areas were originally called program areas, and intermediate goals were called overarching goals of the program area. With the advent of PART (Program Assessment Rating Tool) in 2003, the terminology was changed to strategic and intermediate goals, and performance measures were formalized. Research projects that will directly or indirectly benefit mine workers can be found throughout the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Some of these projects are part of an integrated program of respiratory disease studies; others are part of a program of research in personal protective technologies. The majority of the projects focuses on the development of safety and health interventions and is concentrated at the Pittsburgh and Spokane Research Laboratories. These projects are the ones that have been fully integrated into the program format. Accordingly, the information presented on this Web site is not an inventory of all NIOSH projects that may ultimately impact the safety and health of mine workers. Rather, it focuses on those projects that were planned as a program of research in mining. At the staff level, collaborations run throughout the Institute, even though the major facility assets for conducting much mining research are only in the Pittsburgh and Spokane Laboratories. |
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