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• Reducing Low Back Pain and Disability in Mining
  9/1/2008 - Information Circulars
  This report provides managers, supervisors, and safety and health professionals with information on low back pain (LBP) and low back disability. It also provides the latest LBP research and describes methods to address the problem.
• Keeping Knees Healthy in Restricted Work Spaces: Applications in Low-Seam Mining
  5/1/2008 - Information Circulars, Training materials
  This training package educates the mining community about possible interventions beyond kneepads that may be used to help decrease knee injury rates.
• An Oral History Analysis of Mine Emergency Response
  4/1/2004 - Information Circulars
  A compilation of accounts by 30 veteran mine emergency response experts. These veterans related stories and observations from events experienced during as many as 47 years of response activities. These provide an overview of lessons learned on-site.
• Strategies for Improving Miners' Training
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  This NIOSH Information Circular presents basic principles for teaching adults and provides examples of how these principles can be used to develop and implement effective training for miners.
• Mine Rescue and Response
  9/1/2000 - Conference papers
  This paper describes technology and training that has been identified for underground emergency responders.
• A Human Component to Consider in Your Emergency Management Plans: The Critical Incident Stress Factor
  7/1/1995 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  In recent years the issue of human stress response in emergency workers has begun to receive attention. This paper presents a rationale for considering human stress as a significant factor in the management of emergencies. It discusses the concept of st...
• Refuge Chamber Training Products and Guidance
  12/28/2023 - Training materials
  To help instructors teach miners about the use of refuge chambers, NIOSH has developed a suite of training modules covering operations, decision-making and expectations.
• Mining Applications of Novel Interventions for Fatigue - Evaluating Safety Toolkits (MANIFEST)
  12/5/2023 - Research projects
  A project to develop evidence-based fatigue toolkits, enabling mines to sustainably and independently measure fatigue, interpret fatigue assessments, and select, implement, and evaluate appropriate interventions related to mineworker fatigue.
• Tailoring Opioid Awareness Training Resources for the Mining Industry
  11/29/2023 - Research projects
  A pilot project to engage the mining industry through a participatory evaluation approach to facilitate the tailoring of opioid awareness training resources and guidance for mine operators and other interested parties.
• Evaluation of VR Mine Rescue Training Platform
  11/14/2023 - Research projects
  A project to evaluate NIOSH’s recently developed VR Mine Rescue Training platform as a supplemental training tool.