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• The Concept of Degraded Images Applied to Hazard Recognition Training in Mining for Reduction of Lost-Time Injuries
  7/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses the application of a training intervention that uses degraded images for improving the hazard recognition skills of miners.
• Tell Me a Story: Using Narrative to Teach Safety to Skilled Blue-Collar Workers
  3/1/2003 - Conference papers
  A discussion of how training videos created to get safety messages to miners were developed, how "master miners" and story lines were chosen, and how the resulting videos have been received in the mining industry.
• Principles of Adult Learning: Application for Mine Trainers
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  Discusses the principals of adult learning based on research in education and psychology, and stresses the importance of taking a systems approach to training.
• Inaccuracy of Area Sampling for Measuring the Dust Exposure of Mining Machine Operators in Coal Mines
  2/1/2002 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study examines the accuracy of area sampling for measuring the dust exposure of mining machine operators at coal mine working faces. The work was prompted by the development of a prospective new type of dust sampling instrument called the machine-...
• Technology for Remote Mine Seal Construction
  2/1/2002 - Conference papers
  Mine fires can be especially perilous because toxic products can quickly spread well beyond the fire zone thereby exposing all underground miners to dangerous and deadly conditions. This paper provides a review of the available materials and technology ...
• The Evolving Mining Workforce: Training Issues
  8/1/2001 - Conference papers
  A major concern in the mining industry today is how to train the present aging workforce plus the expected influx of new and less experienced miners and mine operators as the cohort of older workers retire.
• I Can't Get Enough Air! Proper Self-contained Self-rescuer Usage
  10/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This is the Instructor's Copy of the document. This document contains most of the materials needed to use the exercises on proper self-contained self-rescuer usage.
• Cripple Creek Deep Cut: An Exercise for Remote Control Miner Operators and Face Crews
  10/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This document contains most of the materials needed to conduct a training exercise for remote control miner operators and face crews.
• Program of Research - A Summary of Research in Progress during Fiscal Years 98
  4/1/1998 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  The program of research for NIOSH in fiscal year 1998.
• Overview of U.S. Research on Three Approaches to Ensuring That Coal Miners Work Safely: Management, Workplace Design and Training
  2/1/1997 - Conference papers
  This paper summarized the past 20 years of U.S. research to ensure that underground coal miners work safely.