David Dye
David Dye
David William Dye FRSwas an English physicist...
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Much more work needs to be done. But this updates the information and frames the issue for us better. We bracketed the best and worst case.
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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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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.
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At this time, we have no information that would suggest that the explosion was related to a recurrence of any of the conditions that were required to be abated before the explosion.
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We will use every tool at our disposal to go after operators that refuse to pay their penalties for mine safety violations, and that includes holding the people who control them personally responsible.
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We are very concerned about what is going on in West Virginia.
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Education can be an effective tool in building public awareness and broadcasting our safety message to kids and, in turn, to their parents.
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both a strong marketplace among community hospitals for information technology and our competitive success within that marketplace.
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We are very interested in interviewing Mr. McCloy as part of our investigation, and we hope it would be appropriate to do so soon.
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The scheme to maintain traffic on the viaduct is very complicated, and there's a lot of risk associated with it that needs to be more thoroughly evaluated.
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This emergency rulemaking will require the use of proven technologies and techniques to help miners evacuate quickly and safely after a mine accident. We are using the emergency temporary standard to get help into the field as fast as possible. MSHA is moving forward on every front to better protect miners' safety and health.
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A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.
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The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.
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MSHA will use all available legal means to ensure the deterrent effect of penalties.