David Dye
David Dye
David William Dye FRSwas an English physicist...
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This year's tragic mine accidents in West Virginia require immediate action to put in place addition safety requirements to help miners successfully evacuate a mine when an emergency occurs.
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MSHA is pursuing promising wireless technologies to help ensure safe working environments for miners and improve rescue teams' abilities to locate them should an accident occur. MSHA is dedicated to conducting a thorough evaluation of existing technologies and pursuing promising technological advances to ensure that every step is taken to improve mine safety.
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MSHA is moving quickly and aggressively to evaluate technology that may help save the lives of miners in this nation. We will test these systems - as well as other promising technologies that arise - to provide miners and mine operators with useful data on the effectiveness of devices such as these in making mines safer workplaces.
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A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.
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This emergency rulemaking will require the use of proven technologies and techniques to help miners evacuate quickly and safely after a mine accident. We are using the emergency temporary standard to get help into the field as fast as possible. MSHA is moving forward on every front to better protect miners' safety and health.
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Responses to this request for information will assist the agency in determining an appropriate course of action as necessary to improve mine rescue capabilities.
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There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.
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We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.
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We're looking for a subset of the most promising ones.
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We are very concerned about what is going on in West Virginia.
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We are very interested in interviewing Mr. McCloy as part of our investigation, and we hope it would be appropriate to do so soon.
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both a strong marketplace among community hospitals for information technology and our competitive success within that marketplace.
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We will use every tool at our disposal to go after operators that refuse to pay their penalties for mine safety violations, and that includes holding the people who control them personally responsible.
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MSHA will use all available legal means to ensure the deterrent effect of penalties.