This topic area focuses on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing or preventing mine worker injury, illness, disability, exposure to hazards, and death. It includes interventions implemented in the United States, as well as countries identified in collaboration with MSHA as being similar to the United States in the scope of industry, technological advancements, and safety practices (currently, the review includes studies of interventions implemented in Australia, Canada, Poland, South Africa, and Sweden). For each study in the review, CLEAR assesses the quality of the causal evidence and summarizes its approach, findings, and the intervention examined.

Additionally, CLEAR created an annotated bibliography that includes 17 studies of interventions that are designed to improve overall mine safety and prevent fatalities and illnesses among mine workers, but that could not be evaluated according to CLEAR Causal Evidence Guidelines due to the study designs.

Mine Workers and Mine Health and Safety Annotated Bibliography