David Dye
David Dye
David William Dye FRSwas an English physicist...
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MSHA took strong enforcement action by levying the highest fines possible, and we're disappointed with the decision and are reviewing our options.
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MSHA is pursuing promising wireless technologies to help ensure safe working environments for miners and improve rescue teams' abilities to locate them should an accident occur. MSHA is dedicated to conducting a thorough evaluation of existing technologies and pursuing promising technological advances to ensure that every step is taken to improve mine safety.
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MSHA is moving quickly and aggressively to evaluate technology that may help save the lives of miners in this nation. We will test these systems - as well as other promising technologies that arise - to provide miners and mine operators with useful data on the effectiveness of devices such as these in making mines safer workplaces.
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MSHA and the state will do all we can to determine what caused this accident so we can continue to improve the safety protections for all miners.
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MSHA and the industry have worked long and hard together to take care of many of the obvious physical hazards, the ones that could be fixed with better engineering, better equipment, and better technology. We're now down to the hardest thing of all to fix, the human aspect of safety.
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MSHA and the entire mining community extend our deepest condolences when miners are in danger.
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All of us at MSHA deeply grieve the loss of these miners' lives, and I want to assure their families and friends that we are conducting an uncompromising investigation into this accident. We will uncover the truth of why this tragedy happened, and how we can best protect miners in the future.
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A lot of people are drawn to the notion of a cheap fix, ... There is no cheap fix for the viaduct.
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We're looking for a subset of the most promising ones.
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In order to get to the next level -- to make it down that final slope toward zero -- we must address the difficult questions of what motivates and drives people's decisions and choices about safety and health in the workplace.
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This year's tragic mine accidents in West Virginia require immediate action to put in place addition safety requirements to help miners successfully evacuate a mine when an emergency occurs.
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Responses to this request for information will assist the agency in determining an appropriate course of action as necessary to improve mine rescue capabilities.
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There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.
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We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.