Chapter 10 Keeping Your Family Safe Although this worker training manual is generally about preventing respirable crystalline silica exposure for you, the health of others living close to you is also a concern.

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Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee FINAL REPORT Develop a quiet non-atmosphere polluting blast hole drilling system GS Harper, T Scanlon CSIR Mining Technology GEN 207 November 1997 Executive Summary Past research has shown that to a large extent, specific noise sources within blast-hole drilling systems can be individually addressed but, in general, such solutions have been found to be impracticable for underground application.

Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee Final Report Development of percentile charts for semi-quantitative tracking of lung functions over time in the South African mining industry JM teWaterNaude1, JE Myers1, ML Thompson,1'2 NW White1 Research agency: ''Occupational and Environmental Health Research Unit, School of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Cape Town department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, USA.

CHAPTER 5 Occupational Lung Disease This chapter will assist readers to understand and manage occupational lung disease risks in the South African mining industry.