The two-disc guide to mine safety includes complete information from the government agency in charge of protecting miners, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (part of the Department of Labor), along with the agency which conducts research into mine safety issues, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (part of the Centers for Disease Control). Information on the spectacular rescue of nine trapped coal miners at the Pennsylvania Quecreek Mine in July 2002 is also included. MSHA material includes: Mine Emergency Operations, Mine Rescue Teams, Mine Rescue Contests, Equipment Alerts, Health Hazard Information, Personal Protection Equipment, Noise Rules, Accident Prevention, History, Accident Reports and complete accident and death statistics.
The guide to surface mining covers issues regarding surface mining, particularly coal mines, in America, which are regulated by the Office of Surface Mining of the U.S. Department of Interior. It includes complete copies of official reports, laws, and regulations about environmental protection and land reclamation of coal mines, with information on native plant protection, clean streams, and abandoned mine reclamation projects.
In all, these three discs have over 30,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for anyone interested in small business! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are.