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• 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.
• Job Training Analysis: A Process for Quickly Developing a Roadmap for Teaching and Evaluating Job Skills
  8/1/2006 - Information Circulars
  This report describes a process called job training analysis (JTA). Its main use is to structure skills training at the jobsite by identifying duties, tasks, and steps and the reasons why those job components are important.
• Roof Bolting Machine Operators Skills Training for a Walk-Thru Roof Bolter: Trainer's Guide
  8/1/2006 - Information Circulars
  This trainer's guide is designed as a reference manual. The purpose is to offer information and examples to skills trainers to assist them in structuring training for new operators of Walk-Thru roof bolting machines.
• Drill Rig Incident
  2/1/2005 - Information Circulars
  This Instructor's Copy contains most of the materials trainers will need in order to use the Drill Rig Incident exercise.
• Wearing Hearing Protection Properly: A 3-D Training Aid for Drillers
  11/1/2004 - Information Circulars
  This instructor's manual supplements the Wearing Hearing Protection Properly 3-D training reel. It offers tips on using the reel as a training aid, assessing training needs, and discussion notes that provide additional information to the user.
• Considerations in Training On-the-Job Trainers
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  On-the-job training (OJT) is a very common method of teaching job skills. Health, safety, and operational skills can be connected through training. Haul truck operator training is used to illustrate some of the concepts discussed in this paper.
• Communicating the Same Message with Different Media: An Example from Hearing Loss Prevention
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  This paper describes advantages and disadvantages of different delivery systems for educational messages and shows what considerations are helpful in designing content that can be readily adapted to alternative presentations.
• Releasing the Energy of Workers to Create a Safer Workplace: The Value of Using Mentors to Enhance Safety Training
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  The mentor/learner model is a time-honored approach to teaching. This paper highlights the unique advantages of using mentoring as a teaching method in the mining industry that can make the educational experience both interesting and effective.
• Use of Simulation Exercises for Safety Training in the U.S. Mining Industry
  9/1/2001 - Information Circulars
  Organizations that used problem-solving simulation exercises to support mine health and safety training were surveyed. Recommendations are made for the expansion of simulation exercises as a method for occupational health and safety training.
• Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Mouthpiece Assemblies Used in Hands-On Training
  1/1/1989 - Information Circulars
  This report addresses issues involved in using a limited number of training apparatus to give hands-on self- contained self-rescuer (SCSR) training to a succession of miners, and provides guidance regarding methods for minimizing the spread of infectiou...