Mine Safety Fact: Many occupational safety and mining scholars attribute mine safety progress in the U.S. to technological advances in mining equipment. Mining technology improves safety by reducing exposures through increased productivity (e.g. longwalls), by replacing man hours with machine hours (e.g. continuous miners), by making mining equipment safer (e.g. fire resistant belt conveyors) and by creating devices that enhance safety (e.g. roof bolters).
