coal miner presentation
Coal Miner Presentation
Amanda Long
Rogers State University
Coal Mining
Coal mining has been around for a very long time and it is necessary for everyday use. Everyday coal miners wake and get ready to go into a deep dark hole. Coal miners can be compared to soldiers in the war, every morning they have to kiss their wives and kids goodbye and make sure they say I love you, because they never know what kind of day it’s going to be. Coalmines collapse and kill thousands each year, coal miners have to be on edge constantly and pray consistently. In most rural mining communities, mining is all that is available. Yes coal mining pays excellent, eighty thousand to a hundred thousand per year, but coal miners have an increased mortality rate and increased health risks. Coal miners have many occupational hazards and health problems and are not guaranteed each hour of their life.
Safety and Health Standards
According to the United States Department of Labor, the first priority and concern of all in the coal mining industry must be the heath and safety of its most precious resource; the miner. Appropriate forms of warning are provided to insure that miners are apprised of all hazards to which they are exposed, relevant symptoms and appropriate emergency treatment, and proper conditions and precautions of safe use or exposure. The mandatory standard prescribes suitable protective equipment and provides technological procedures in connection with such hazards. They also provide monitoring and measuring of miner exposure at such locations to assure the maximum protection of the miners. Mandatory standards will also prescribe the type and frequency of medical examinations and other tests which are made available by the operate at his cost to miners exposed to hazards in order to most effectively determine whether the health of the miner is adversely affected by exposure. A determination is then made that a miner may suffer material impairment of health or functional
Amanda Long
Rogers State University
Coal Mining
Coal mining has been around for a very long time and it is necessary for everyday use. Everyday coal miners wake and get ready to go into a deep dark hole. Coal miners can be compared to soldiers in the war, every morning they have to kiss their wives and kids goodbye and make sure they say I love you, because they never know what kind of day it’s going to be. Coalmines collapse and kill thousands each year, coal miners have to be on edge constantly and pray consistently. In most rural mining communities, mining is all that is available. Yes coal mining pays excellent, eighty thousand to a hundred thousand per year, but coal miners have an increased mortality rate and increased health risks. Coal miners have many occupational hazards and health problems and are not guaranteed each hour of their life.
Safety and Health Standards
According to the United States Department of Labor, the first priority and concern of all in the coal mining industry must be the heath and safety of its most precious resource; the miner. Appropriate forms of warning are provided to insure that miners are apprised of all hazards to which they are exposed, relevant symptoms and appropriate emergency treatment, and proper conditions and precautions of safe use or exposure. The mandatory standard prescribes suitable protective equipment and provides technological procedures in connection with such hazards. They also provide monitoring and measuring of miner exposure at such locations to assure the maximum protection of the miners. Mandatory standards will also prescribe the type and frequency of medical examinations and other tests which are made available by the operate at his cost to miners exposed to hazards in order to most effectively determine whether the health of the miner is adversely affected by exposure. A determination is then made that a miner may suffer material impairment of health or functional
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