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Safety Alert: How to Stay Safe When Working Around Belt Conveyors

If you’re a miner who has to work on, near or around a belt conveyor, it’s important to always be aware of the hazards that you might run across. A significant number of injuries and fatalities over the last few years have occurred when miners were working in the proximity of moving conveyors, while some […]

CORESafety TV (May 2021): How CORESafety Can Work for Mining Operations of ANY Size

Welcome to the May edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. While it’s obvious that CORESafety is an effective safety and health management system for many large American mining operations, it’s also proving to be beneficial to at least one smaller “start-up” project – Twin Metals Minnesota.  Twin Metals Minnesota is a […]

CORESafety TV (April 2021): What It Takes to Get Recertified For the CORESafety® Management System

Welcome to the April edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. Mining companies that employ CORESafety as their safety and health management system can become “certified” after they’ve completed all 20 modules in the program and have been reviewed and approved by an independent third-party consultant. Three years later, those same companies are required to go through another third-party review in order […]

CORESafety TV (March 2021): The Ups and Downs of Staying Safe on Ladders

Welcome to the March edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. This is National Ladder Safety Month as designated by the American Ladder Institute. It’s the fifth anniversary of their efforts to make people more aware of the hazards that can be associated with ladders when they’re used […]

CORESafety TV (February 2021): Innovations in Dust Particle Monitoring

Welcome to the February edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. One of the greatest hazards in mining is the exposure of miners to elevated levels of toxic aerosols, including respirable dust, diesel particulate matter and crystalline silica. Two types of monitoring – personal and environmental – are often used to measure and […]

CORESafety TV (January 2021): Digging Deeper Into Coeur Mining’s COVID-19 Safety Plan

Welcome to the January 2021 edition of CORESafety TV — the online video program from the National Mining Association. Last month we told you about the innovative COVID-19 strategy that Coeur Mining implemented throughout 2020 to help protect its miners. The company formed an internal multi-disciplinary committee to tackle the challenges head-on, making it possible to effectively test employees for possible exposure and […]

National Miners Day 2020: Celebrating Our Nation’s Miners and the Essential Work They Do For America

This month, CORESafety and the National Mining Association ask you to join us in celebrating National Miners Day, a time for recognizing the dedicated men and women in the mining industry that help to keep our country prosperous and safe. National Miners Day takes place each year on December 6, the date that was established in 2009 to remember those miners […]