The mission, vision, and values of the Miner Health Program have been informed by conversations, presentations, and meetings between mining stakeholders and NIOSH. In simple terms, the mission affirms …Web
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Men in a mining area tend to attract commercial workers, leading to the spread of HIV. Scientists are studying the potential dangers of acid draining from disused mines into water supplies.Web
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Genital herpes causes painful blisters around the mouth, vagina, penis, or anus. The genital lesions are infectious for 7–12 days. Among severe cases, herpes may lead to CNS meningoencephalitis infection. It can be transmitted to newborns during vaginal delivery, causing infection, encephalitis, and death.Web
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The physical environment in gold mining is hazardous: the accident risk is high, hearing loss, musculoskeletal disorders, and heat-induced illness are common. In gold-mining operations, exposure ...Web
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The causes of environmental pollution are not limited to industrialization, urbanization, population growth, exploration, and mining, but also transboundary movement of pollutants from developed to developing countries or vice versa. Transboundary pollution is part of the reason that pollution has remained a global challenge.Web
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Background Despite their burden of a triple epidemic of silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV infection, little is known about the mortality experience of miners from the South African mining industry once they leave employment. Such information is important because of the size and dispersion of this population across a number of countries and the …Web
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in 'green technologies' for climate change mitigation, the negative environmental and occupational consequences of mining …Web
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Details of our mixed-methods research have been described elsewhere [].In summary, to assess health and wellbeing priorities in the host communities of three Anglo American mining operations in Chile, three in Brazil, and one in Peru (for the latter, the mine was in its set-up phase during the study period) we quantitatively appraised existing …Web
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Introduction. Bauxite mining in Kuantan offers some exciting economic opportunities for various parties including individual land owners. Nevertheless, the "bauxite boom"; the extensive and uncontrolled mining activities have great potentials to cause adverse impacts on the environment, health and quality of life of the people living in the …Web
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The enormous burden of poor working conditions. The ILO estimates that some 2.3 million women and men around the world succumb to work-related accidents or diseases every year; this corresponds to over 6000 deaths every single day. Worldwide, there are around 340 million occupational accidents and 160 million victims of work-related illnesses ...Web
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Men at mine opening Pneumoconiosis ("occupational lung disease" or "black lung disease") caused by breathing in dust particles 4 Asbestosis and Silicosis caused by breathing …Web
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The leading causes of occupational ill-health and injury in the mining and quarrying industry are: Moving vehicles; ... secure loads and avoid the need to work at height on vehicles where possible. Roads within the mine area should also be sufficiently wide, rolled smooth and cleaned regularly, be designed with a suitable gradient, be kept ...Web
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The occupation of mining has a great risk of injury as well as a disease (McIvor and Johnston 2016).Miners are exposed to various factors like heat, noise, dust, and certain chemicals that over the period of time exposure to such substances can lead to a disease (Prüss-Ustün et al. 2011).One such disease is the skin infection that may disrupt …Web
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Industrial mining projects can play an important role in global sustainable development if associated health risks are minimised and opportunities maximised. While a broad body of evidence from quantitative studies exists that establishes the interlinkages between mining operations and effects on public health, little research has been …Web
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Mining is one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S. Not only do mineworkers experience high rates of on-the-job injury and death, but they also face a …Web
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More ASM mining will involve more associated health risks, and less mining will further exacerbate problems of poverty. Some scholars advocate against blanket child labor prohibitions. With sweatshops in clothing industries, Powell ( 2014a ) argued that children work there because it was the best option available to them and their families.Web
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INTRODUCTION. Oil exploration and exploitation is very lucrative, and a major revenue earner in Nigeria. But, like most industrial activities, it produces environmental hazards that are "slow poisons," in that they often take months and years to cause disease and death. 1 This is unlike the contamination of water, food, and the environment with micro …Web
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pollution is higher for pregnant women, elderly people and children that causes several health. ... ecological sensitive areas for mining, spillage of oil and gas and dumping of waste materials, all.Web
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Mining activities, both surface and underground, come along with numerous health externalities and exposure to dust and chemicals from mining causes acute and chronic respiratory diseases. It is hypothesized that this could even be more in limited resource settings, where mining regulations are less enforced and the safety of miners …Web
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Researchers predict that the world will need to expand copper mining to meet the future supply deficit. However, of the top 300 undeveloped copper orebodies in the world, 47% are located on or in …Web
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Recent empirical studies have indeed confirmed that health disparities exist in coal mining regions of Appalachia compared with other areas of the region or the nation, including elevated mortality rates for total causes, lung cancer, and some chronic illnesses. 15 – 19 These studies showed that mortality is related to higher poverty, lower ...Web
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Overall, impacts of mining projects on the wider determinants of health and related health outcomes were perceived similarly by affected communities in mining areas across the study countries. An increased burden or spread of diseases was mostly related to environmental pollution and social dynamics caused by the mining operations.Web
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One of the important issue involved in coal mining is coal dust, which can lead to a series of health problems (Yao et al., 2020).Nearly the whole mining processes is accompanied by coal dust generation (Shahan and Reed, 2019).Fig. 2 depicts the processes of coal dust generation during mining, showing that dust is generated during …Web
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and NIOSH recently published the largest existing study on causes of mortality in U.S. coal miners. We analyzed cause of death data from the National Death Index on 235,550 U.S. coal miners who died between 1979 and 2017 and had participated in either the NIOSH Coal Workers' Health ...Web
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1. Introduction and background1.1. Mine dust pollution and its environmental & health risks. As the world's resources continue to be exploited, mining activities are giving rise to increasing environmental damage and pollution, of which mine dust pollution is considered to be one of the biggest threats to environment and public health (Entwistle …Web
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Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to …Web
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A newly-developed "distance-weighted, at-risk population coal mining exposure measure" computed using a GIS was highly correlated with breast, respiratory, other, and total cancer rates of census block groups. Hendryx et al. 2012: U.S.–WV: 773 adults in two rural communities, one in a mountaintop mining area: Proximity to coal …Web
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Air pollution from power plants and smelting factories built near mines causes serious illness (see Chapter 16). Mining and sickness among the Dineh The Dineh tribe and …Web
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Previous research in the public health and epidemiology literatures has highlighted that coal-producing counties in Appalachia exhibit morbidity and mortality rates higher than those in the rest of the United States. However, these studies primarily use cross-sectional data, rely on singular measures of mortality, such as the age-adjusted …Web
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Mining shifts are lengthier than those of most jobs – 12 hour shifts are common practice – and this can pose its own host of problems. There is evidence that long and irregular shift work can cause a variety of health problems for mining workers, including depression, anxiety and fatigue. Mining is physically demanding work and the …Web
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There are a number of negative health effects of coal that occur through its mining, preparation, combustion, waste storage, and transport. Negative health effects from coal use within the U.S. include: [1] Reduction in life expectancy ( particulates sulfur dioxide heavy metals radionuclides, etc.) Respiratory hospital admissions ( particulates ...Web
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is often associated with no or compromised attention to health and safety. Although headlines of fatal accidents in Zimbabwe characterise ASGM, little attention is paid to prevention strategies. This study, therefore, explores health and safety risk mitigation in ASGM in Zimbabwe to inform prevention …Web
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Air pollution in NSW causes 603 premature deaths and costs $4.8bn a year, study finds ... especially in more disadvantaged areas. The recommended World Health Organization ... and in some of the ...Web
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Mining and other industrial processes also release gases, as does the construction industry. Machines used in the manufacturing process often run on coal, oil, or gas; and some materials, like ...Web
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The afore-mentioned districts have experienced serious environmental degradation as a result of intense mining activities. Mining in the Amansie West and Wassa Amenfi East districts is dominated by surface mining activities with few underground and alluvial mining whilst Talensi district is predominantly known for underground mining.Web
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Introduction. The oil, gas, and mining (OGM) industry is one of most hazardous for workers. This is due to the complexity of the processes, workers' exposure to dangerous substances, and work-related accidents [1, 2].Despite its high-risk nature and heavy focus of males, there has been a worldwide significant increase in workers …Web
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Protecting the mental health of miners: are current initiatives enough? New research from Australia has found that an alarming majority of shift workers in the mining industry are at risk of, or already suffer from, mental illness, sparking calls for urgent intervention. Dr Nicola Davies reports on the findings of the report and whether, six ...Web
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Continuous work in a dusty mining environment leads to acute respiratory infection (ARI) and pulmonary diseases among workers, i.e. pneumoconiosis, black lung, …Web
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