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• Job Autonomy and Safety Climate: Examining Associations in the Mining Industry
  4/17/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article examining what role job autonomy may have in forming workers’ perceptions and subsequent occupational safety and health performance on the job.
• Develop Mining Fatigue Model and Management System
  4/2/2019 - Research projects
  A project to define workplace fatigue for the mining industry by developing a preliminary fatigue model and management system using a human factors systems approach, which accounts for the predictors causing fatigue.
• Mineworker Fatigue: A Review of What We Know and Future Decisions
  3/1/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article that aims to concisely review what is and is not known about worker fatigue in mining.
• Mining Applications of Novel Interventions for Fatigue--Evaluating Safety Toolkits (MANIFEST)
  12/16/2018 - 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.
• Intrinsically Safe Systems: Equivalency of International Standards Compared to U.S. Mining Approval Criteria
  12/3/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article demonstrating that international equipment evaluation standards for electrical/electronic equipment will provide at least the same level of protection for miners as the MSHA requirements.
• Applying the Precaution Adoption Process Model to the Acceptance of Mine Safety and Health Technologies
  5/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study exploring management and worker perspectives toward three technologies to forecast adoption and behavioral intention on the job.
• Human Factors Considerations in Addressing Mining Occupational Illnesses, Injuries, and Fatalities
  4/13/2018 - Internal Reports
  This white paper offers a holistic overview of the NIOSH Mining Program's 40-year history of studying human factors in the industry and some of the critical knowledge gathered about safety and human behavior.
• Miners Implement Corrective Actions in Response to CPDM Dust Data
  3/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A trade publication article discussing a NIOSH study that aimed to find what individual miners have learned about their exposure based on CPDM use, the corrective actions identified, and their responsive, behavioral changes to reduce dust exposure.
• A Case Study Exploring Field-Level Risk Assessments as a Leading Safety Indicator
  3/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study focusing on one trona mine’s experience in the development and implementation of a field-level risk assessment program to help its organization understand and manage risk to an acceptable level.
• Increasing the Effectiveness of Targeted Mining Hearing Conservation Program Elements
  2/28/2018 - Research projects
  A project to identify and remediate actual and perceived barriers to full implementation of hearing conservation programs at surface stone, sand, and gravel mines.