Mine safety / edited by Bharat B. Dhar, B. C. Bhowmick.

"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference of Safety in Mines Research Institutes : select paper"--T.p.

Cover title

On cover title: "ICS-MRI '97"

Includes bibliographical references

United States mining health and safety research / John N. Murphy -- Specialist health and safety research, testing and certification services--one strategy for improving safety in Australian mines / Peter J. Dent -- Risk analysis--basis of safety management system in mining industry / P. Rosmus and J. Sobala -- Identification of causes of unsafe acts or neglect resulting in roof and sidewall accidents / A. Hamilton-Attwell and R. Moses -- Risk factors and safety monitoring systems for underground works / Joan Nicolae Caprar ...[et al.] -- A system dynamics model for safety hazard control in mines / A. Bhattacherjee, N. Mukherjee, and A. Ghosh -- Introducing a successful safety system in an underground coal mine / R. D. Lama -- Characteristics of SCSRS under heavy work conditions / Massayoshi Takahasi ...[et al.] -- Safety problem existing in China fully-mechanised sublevel caving mining and their control measures / Yang Deyu ...[et al.] -- Risk assessment methods specific to mining activity / Mihal Zaporojan, Ladislav Kovacs, and Romulus Sirbu -- Technical and safety aspects of thick coal seams mining with caving / M. Suchanek and P. Janas -- Investigating the scope for improvements in navigational aids to assist evacuation from underground mine workings under poor visibility conditions / A. M. Thyer and A. K. Weyman -- Improvement of mine climate conditions / Wolfgang Schlotte -- Air temperature regulation in mine working on the basis of local and block ventilation systems with boreholes / Anatoly I. Bobroy ...[et al.] -- Avoiding safety risks by defined air-flow distribution in the goaf / Rolf Stamer -- Improved methods of gas content determination in coal seams / P. A. Krzystolik, M. Dworak-Bywales, and Z. Modrezejewski -- Presentation of programme application for monitoring methane concentration in bituminous coal mines in Jiu Valley coal basin / Liviu Jurca, Sorin Zaporojan, and Cristian Hanna -- Correlation of the basic longwall face parameters and the main coal seam methane content in the brown coal mine "Zenica" / Abduselam Adilovic -- Release of methane as a function of longwall face advance rate / Jelena Markovic, Hamid Tanovic, and Snjezana Micevic -- System for hazard monitoring and energy-saving control of ventilation process / W. Mironowicz and S. Wasilewski -- Application of numerical gas flows modelling to optimisation of nitrogen injections in to the goaf / Zbiginiew Pokryszka ...[et al.] -- Reliability problems in intrinsically safe systems in the context of atex directive / Roman Dworok, Pawel Krzystolik and Jerzy Fraczek -- Mine fire rescue command decision support system / Li Xingdong and Jiang Guoan -- Preventive facilities and emergency operations in case of fires in CdF coal mines / J. P. Amartin and J. P. Josien -- Better fire and explosion protection and improved mine rescue in hard coal mining of countries in transition of industrialisation / George Langer, W. Hermulheim and G. Bresser -- Frictional ignition hazards associated with the use of continuous miners / Huw R. Phillips -- The ignition of methane and coal dust by compression in collapsing gob areas / Wei Lin, Malcolm J. McPherson, and Ian Loomis -- Frictional ignition risks of point attack picks / S. C. Bennett and N. R. Goodhead -- Placement and performance of fire detection equipment in underground mines / R. T. Humbleton ...[et al.] -- New researches in diminishing self-heating/self-combustion phenomenan in the Jiu Valley Romania coal mines by the use of inorganic inhibitors / Ion Toth -- Issues in airborne respirable coal mine dust sampling / Raja V. Ramani -- Current and future R&D in environmental safety and health / Gordon L. Smith -- Studies on respirable dust in coal mines, New South Wales, Australia / Ken B. Cram and Denis Glover -- Acoustic impact of hard drilling on working and neighbouring environment in quarrying operations / S. Atzecri, G. Massacci, and P. L. M. Rinaldi -- Explosive materials and blasting technologies used in