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Mining Project: Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP)
Keywords: Coal dust Coal workers pneumoconiosis Health and safety programs Lungs Respirable dust
Principal Investigator
Laura Reynolds -  Request informationStart Date
10/1/1970Objective
To maintain a Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) designed to identify the incidence and progression of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis in all coal miners.Topic Areas
Exposure Monitoring of Dust and Toxic Substances
Respiratory Diseases
Research Summary

The Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) was established under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, amended by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and its subsequent amendments, and is administered through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Respiratory Health Division (RHD), Surveillance Branch (SB) in Morgantown, WV. The CWHSP offers medical surveillance at no cost to miners, including chest radiographs and spirometry.
Data collected by the CWHSP allows NIOSH to estimate of the burden of coal mine dust lung disease in the U.S. and provides miners with information about their respiratory health status, which can be used to inform decisions relating to their right to transfer to a less dusty work environment, when indicated.
Further information is available at the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance System topic page.







See Also
Characterization of Submicron-/Nano-scale Coal Dusts and Their Effects on Miners' Pneumoconiosis and Lung Cancer for Underground Coal Mines
Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (NIOSH)
Control of Respirable Dust
Enhanced Utilization of Personal Dust Monitor Feedback
Equivalency of a Personal Dust Monitor to the Current United States Coal Mine Respirable Dust Sampler
Evaluation of the Approach to Respirable Quartz Exposure Control in U.S. Coal Mines
Faces of Black Lung
Field Comparison of a Roof Bolter Dry Dust Collection System with an Original Designed Wet Collection System for Dust Control
Respirable Dust Control for Surface Mines
Respirable Quartz Hazard Associated with Coal Mine Roof Bolter Dust
Respiratory Health Division (RHD)
Trend in Black Lung Cases Concerns NIOSH Researchers
Page last reviewed: March 16, 2020
Page last updated: June 5, 2017
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program
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