Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 is an International Labor Organization Convention adopted at the 82nd International Labor Conference (ILC). The convention (C176) was developed and adopted to better recognize the inherent hazards of the mining workplace and the necessity of addressing these hazards on a global scale.
Mine safety is a broad term referring to the practice of controlling and managing a wide range of hazards associated with the life cycle of mining-related activities.Mine safety practice involves the implementation of recognised hazard controls and/or reduction of risks associated with mining activities to legally, socially and morally acceptable levels.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) (/ ˈ ɛ m ʃ ə /) is a large agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents, to ...
The Royal Commission on the Health and Safety of Workers in Mines, informally known as the Ham Commission, was a 1974 Canadian royal commission founded to investigate and report on the safety of underground mines. [1] [2] [3] The commission was created by Bill Davis as a result of the 1974 Elliot Lake miners strike and led by James Milton Ham ...
It can be found in the United States Code under Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining, Chapter 22, Mine Safety and Health. The S. 717 legislation was passed by the 95th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter on November 9, 1977. [ 1 ]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ~ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Department of Health and Human Services. Tuchman, Robert J.; Brinkley, Ruth F. "A History of The Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh Research Center" (PDF). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ~ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ...
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (MSHRC) is an independent adjudicative agency of the United States government that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act, or Mine Act, of 1977.
Mine Safety and Health News; The Mines Rescue Rules, 1985; Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration; Mining lamp; MSA Safety; N. National Mine Map Repository;