The workshop aims to discuss control technologies for reducing coal miners' exposure to particulate matter and gaseous emissions from the exhaust of diesel-powered vehicles in underground coal mines.

 

NIOSH said the workshop was designed to help managers, maintenance personnel, safety and health professionals, and ventilation engineers in selecting and applying diesel particulate filters and other control technologies in their mines.

 

Presentations and discussions will address current, state-of-the-art control technologies for diesel emissions in underground mines, diesel particulate filters in underground mining, maintenance of control technologies and strategies for the selection of diesel particulate filters.

 

The workshop will be held on July 30, 2003 at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

For more information on the workshop, contact Rose Ann Crotsley, NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, at rkc6@cdc.gov.