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Recently, a Tibetan gold mine made international headlines when a massive landslide buried workers who were sleeping there. Unlike the highly televised plight of the miners in Mexico who were trapped several stories underground for days, this story did not have quite such a hopeful ending, and it has yet again sparked the recurring debate about the dangers of mining.
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The United States Department of Labor has issued several policies about how miners work and how the environment should be maintained, at minimum, to remain safe for all workers. This includes a range of regulations involving every aspect of working in a mine, starting from the worker’s clothing or uniform to the site’s size, location, and housing, storage, or equipment.
Like most professions, safety in mining starts with education. In addition to being trained for the job, miners are also taught how to handle every possible emergency situation and how to survive for long periods of time in the condition of their mines. Although it is impossible to be prepared for every possible bad situation, training workers in basic survival significantly increases their chance of making it out of a desperate situation alive.
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Safety of its workers is a top priority at Petaquilla Minerals, an established gold mining company in Panama. Under the leadership of Richard Fifer, its director and chairman of the board, the company provides its workers with technical advice on occupational and environmental risk protection. This blog offers the latest on the mining industry.
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