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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Published Tuesday, July 01, 2003

NIOSH to Study Mining Risks The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is taking a first step toward launching a broad study of occupational risks in mining. The agency has proposed a pilot study as a prelude to a national survey of the mining population. The last mining industry population study was done in 1986. NIOSH says it expects the pilot study to elicit responses from about 30 mining operations, including some in the aggregates industry. The larger study will involve collecting basic information about mining operations, along with demographic and occupational characteristics of employees within each ...

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