Noise & Dust Workshops

The workshops are scheduled for:

  • November 1-3, 2011 (Tuesday - Thursday) at
    Kerford Limestone
    Weeping Water, NE

Since 1997, NSSGA’s award-winning program of delivering instructive seminars on noise and dust control have been conducted at aggregate mine sites across the country, having instructed more than 400 students on this critical safety and health issue.  The 3-day workshop consists of two days of classroom application, and one day of field work in which each participant, under real-world circumstances, conducts noise and dust monitoring and collects exposure measurements of working aggregate miners.  This is a unique opportunity to learn how to conduct noise and dust exposure monitoring, record and interpret results, and develop plans to reduce exposures below MSHA permissible limits. 

Led by MSHA’s popular trainer, Rocky McKinney, the course provides authoritative training on:

  • Hazards of noise and dust
  • Basic Sampling Principles
  • Control Methods
  • Recording and interpreting test results
  • Developing plans for reducing exposures to points below the MSHA permissible limits

Space is limited to 15 students per seminar at each location.

Attendees include: plant managers and supervisors; human resources managers, consultants, safety and health professionals, and industrial hygienists.

Attendees will learn to:

  • Comply with MSHA’s Noise Exposure monitoring requirements
  • Interpret analytical results of tests
  • Develop good record-keeping habits
  • Identify noise and dust hazards, and institute corrective measures

Rocky McKinney

The leader in NSSGA’s courses in both Noise & Dust, and Diesel Particulate Matter, is the popular teacher, Rocky McKinney.  

Based at MSHA’s Academy in Beaver, West Virginia, where he works as an industrial hygienist, McKinney excels in providing practical guidance in these compelling courses on monitoring for health hazards, and ensuring that class participants walk away with a clear understanding of the proper techniques needed for monitoring; these learnings can be applied immediately upon return to your quarry/facility.  

A graduate of the West VA Institute of Technology, McKinney received his Master’s degree in mine safety from Marshall University.     

"NSSGA’s Noise & Dust seminar gave me a better understanding of the monitoring process, and the relationship of the monitoring to the numbers. Because we participated, we now have the ability to collect our own samples and verify what we think is going on. Among other things, our learnings have enabled our company to plan for future savings of time and money in this important area."

Mike Clark, Regional EH&S Manager
J.M. Huber Corporation