Research Projects

Note: The MHSC research projects are grouped and classified into nine (9) thrust areas. The thrust areas are aptly named according to the major agency which the research project was intended to address in the first place.
ALL COMMODITIES
Airborne Pollutants • 2026

PROJECT HEALTH 604

Proposed rational strategic criteria for routine measurement of exposure to respirable dust in South African mines

ALL COMMODITIES
Applied Research
Human Factors and Behavioural Safety • 2026

CoE210903

The impact of over-exertion on women’s health and safety in the South African mining industry

Applied Research Research Document
Applied Research
Research Document
COAL
Physical Hazards • 2026

PROJECT COL 451

Assessment of world-wide illumination and visibility standards in coal mines

COAL Research Document Research Document
Research Document
Research Document
COAL
Occupational Diseases • 2026

PROJECT COL 236

Assessment of dispersed barrier

ALL COMMODITIES
Physical Hazards • 2025

Project CoE 190702

IS THE HEAT TOLERANCE SCREENING (HTS) TEST AN ADEQUATE TOOL TO ASSESS IF AN EMPLOYEE IS HEAT TOLERANT AND ARE THE METHODS USED TO DETERMINE HEAT TOLERANCE VALID?”

ALL COMMODITIES
COAL
Explosions and Fires • 2023

PROJECT COL 713

Prevention of spontaneous combustion of backfilled plant waste material

ALL COMMODITIES
Occupational Diseases • 2007

PROJECT HEALTH 610

Lung function reference tables for the South African mining industry.

ALL COMMODITIES ALL COMMODITIES
ALL COMMODITIES
ALL COMMODITIES
COAL
Explosions and Fires • 2005

PROJECT COL 701

Inertisation strategies and practices in underground coal mines

ALL COMMODITIES
Occupational Diseases • 2003

PROJECT HEALTH 702

A prospective study to assess the prevalence and work-related risk factors in the development of musculoskeletal disorders in the South African mining industry

ALL COMMODITIES ALL COMMODITIES
ALL COMMODITIES
ALL COMMODITIES
GOLD
Occupational Diseases • 2002

PROJECT HEALTH 705

Provisional assessment of the impact of adding sputum screening to existing active case finding methods for tuberculosis in

MANGANESE
Occupational Diseases • 2002

PROJECT HEALTH 711

Two phase longitudinal or prospective study of the nervous system effects of occupational environmental manganese exposure on mineworkers or processing plant workers at two manganese mines in the Northern Cape Province

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Occupational Diseases • 2002

PROJECT HEALTH 804

Development of percentile charts for semi-quantitative tracking of lung functions over time in the South African mining industry