Mine Workers And Mine Health And Safety Review Protocol

The objective of the Mine Workers and Mine Health and Safety review is to determine the quality of existing causal evidence on the effectiveness of interventions on mine worker and mine workplace health and safety and on mine worker return to work following injury or illness.

The review focuses on studies of interventions that seek to reduce or prevent mine worker injury, illness, disability, exposure to hazards, and death; decrease the time for mine workers to return to work following injury or illness; or improve mine workplace health and safety, including the impact of mining technology and equipment on these outcomes.

Only research with causal designs is reviewed for this topic area.