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• A Review of NIOSH and U.S. Bureau of Mines Research to Improve Miners' Health and Safety Training
  1/1/2010 - Book chapters
  This paper describes how miners' safety and health training has improved since the beginning of the program in the late 1970's after the Federal Mine Safety legislation was passed, and identifies areas where further improvements are needed.
• Guidelines for Instructional Materials on Refuge Chamber Setup, Use, and Maintenance
  7/1/2009 - Information Circulars, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  NIOSH has created this document with suggestions for developing manuals and educational materials concerning refuge chambers for miners.
• Technology News 535 - NIOSH Releases New Educational Video: Escape from Farmington No. 9: An Oral History
  5/1/2009 - Technology News
  Researchers with NIOSH have developed a training module to educate both new, inexperienced miners as well as veterans on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
• Knowledge Management and Transfer for Mine Emergency Response
  9/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  US coal mining organizations are losing the knowledge they need to be able to respond to emergencies. Knowledge management provides a useful perspective from which to view the problem. Knowledge can be managed by cultivating it through narratives.
• Mine Rescue and Response
  9/1/2000 - Conference papers
  This paper describes technology and training that has been identified for underground emergency responders.
• Innovative Solutions for Heat Management in Hot Underground Mines: Ventilation Research and Capacity Building
  10/9/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract focused on state-of-the-art ventilation engineering related to the management of heat in hot underground mines.
• Assessing, Modeling, and Cooling Underground Workings in Deep and Hot Mines
  2/6/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to understand, analyze, and engineer the thermal and psychometric working conditions in deep and hot underground mines.
• DPM Research: Monitoring Responses to Ventilation and Control by Water Sprays, and Capacity Building for Mine Ventilation Expertise
  2/5/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract focused on the use of ventilation in controlling diesel particulate matter (DPM) levels, particularly in the context of challenging mining conditions.
• Infographic: Do Your Workers Show Signs of Fatigue?
  8/30/2019 - Publications
  Use this infographic to learn more about the effects of fatigue on workers and what you can do to lower your risk.
• Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines Training Initiative
  2/21/2019 - Research projects
  A project to characterize the essential components of the mine emergency escape system and develop interventions designed to improve system preparedness and self-escape training of underground coal mining personnel.