The Impact of Contract Operations on Safety in Underground Coal Mines

Buessing, Marric; Boden, Leslie I.

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“…x /∂e < 0. Finally, as recently shown by Buessing and Weil (2014), certain types of efforts targeted at reducing the level of costs in mining could have as unintended consequence an increase in the probability of injuries or fatalities. This would imply an increase in the variance of extraction costs.…”

Section: The Value Of a Contractmentioning

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A Look Upstream: Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency

Maria¹,

Lange

Lazarova³

2014

SSRN Journal

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Section: The Value Of a Contractmentioning

confidence: 86%

A Look Upstream: Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency

Maria¹,

Lange

Lazarova³

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…An additional channel is that mines may hire independent contractors to work on a short-term basis during times of high prices. Contractor workers may be more prone to injury (Buessing and Boden, 2016). 23…”

Section: The Role Of Changing Worker Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining

Charles

Johnson

Stephens

et al. 2022

Journal of Labor Economics

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We investigate how demand conditions affect employers' provision of safety -something about which theory is ambivalent. Positive demand shocks relax financial constraints that limit safety investment, but simultaneously raise the opportunity cost of increasing safety rather than production. We study the U.S. metals mining sector, leveraging exogenous demand shocks from short-term variation in global commodity prices. We find that positive price shocks substantially increase workplace injury rates and safety regulation non-compliance. While these results indicate the general dominance of the opportunity cost effect, shocks that only increase mines' cash-flow lower injury rates, illustrating that financial constraints also affect safety.

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“…There have been more than 50 of them throughout next several years. The research deals mostly with studying of the injures reasons (Bhattacherjee, 2014;Buessing & Weil, 2014). The research fulfilled by T.A.…”

Section: Figure 3 Harmful Industrial Factors Of Environment Influencing Health Of Minersmentioning

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Analysis of the factors influencing the level of professional health and the biological age of miners during underground mining of coal seams

Cheberiachko¹,

Cheberiachko²,

Sotskov³

et al. 2018

Min. miner. depos.

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Setting of the work environment of workers at mining enterprises during thin coal seams extraction influence on the character and the rate of their aging by determination of the biological age and estimation of the occupational diseases development risk value.Methods. The hygienic estimation of the work environment and the occupational diseases development risk value have been determined according to known standard techniques. The approach developed at the Institute of Herontology of National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine has been used for determination of the miners biological age. The aggregate dust load in the air of mining developments has been determined by "АЕRА" respirator. The following equipment has been used for estimation of the human functional state: "Nissei DS-1902" and "Omron M10-IT" tonometers, "Maniquick MQ-160" infrared contactless thermometer, "VМ-150" medical balance. Sampling in the miners breathing zone has been made by "АFА-20" analytical filters. The research results processing has been fulfilled by the method of statistical analysis.Findings. The exceeding of the maximum permissible rates of adverse factors for miners, such as dust, noise and vibration has been set. The work environment is featured by the constant uncomfortable position of miners bodies and the sufficient loading level. It is determined, that the maximum risk of occupational diseases development is connected with the dust and the static loading factors. The work in such conditions leads to rising of the miners aging rate. Thus, the aging rate is equal to 7 years while having 28.3 years of average age for less than 10 years of service length, and correspondingly 9 years for more than 10 years of service length. The exceeding of the biological age on the calendar age is 15 years in average after the shift.Originality. The character of interrelation between the complex of harmful factors, the occupational diseases development risk and the workers aging rates has been set in the conditions of thin coal seams extraction. Practical implications.It is necessary to change the working and recreation modes of miners and to guarantee the work for not more than 4 hours with obligatory breaks for rest, in order to enhance the life time of the miners occupied at coal-face works on the thin coal seams extraction.

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The Impact of Contract Operations on Safety in Underground Coal Mines

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

A Look Upstream: Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency

A Look Upstream: Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency

Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining

Analysis of the factors influencing the level of professional health and the biological age of miners during underground mining of coal seams

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