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Foreign literature on environmental and personal factors affecting the safety and productivity of miners: A topical listing and annotated bibliography of selected recent research. Open file report 1 Oct 81-31 Dec 82

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5250326
This report is a review of the foreign literature concerning human factors issues in the mining industry. About 500 relevant references were located from abstracts generated with computerized literature search systems. Summaries were written for publications that describe the results of empirical investigations of factors affecting miner safety or productivity. The references have been sorted by topic into six major categories: accident-safety, individual miner, health-medicine, technical-engineering, environment, and ergonomics. Some of the major issues include the effects of environmental stress on health and productivity, accident prevention measures, protective clothing and equipment, the miner-machine relationship, training programs, and psychological principles applied to mine problems.
Research Organization:
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5250326
Report Number(s):
PB-84-127687
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English