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• Developing and Maintaining Safety Programs for Improved Worker Performance: Don't Forget the Basics
  1/1/1994 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This paper reviews the basics of developing safety interventions aimed at improving worker performance and describes approaches for maintaining program effectiveness. Emphasis is given to identifying performance discrepancies (hazardous behaviors) by ob...
• Experimental Training to Reduce Variability in the Interpretation and Application of Machine Guarding Requirements
  1/1/1994 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  Often the interpretations of rules pertaining to machine guarding lead to a variety of guarding applications at the worksite. This paper describes a training intervention that offers an opportunity to apply general guarding rules and regulations to a sp...
• Probability of Making a Successful Mine Escape While Wearing a Self-Contained Self-Rescuer
  12/1/1992 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This Bureau of Mines report examines survival odds for a prototypical escape from a mine, and illustrates how these odds change when SCSR training is improved.
• Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Dave Garry
  1/1/1992 - Training materials, Videos and multimedia
  A videotaped interview with a miner helper who witnessed a roof fall that convered the continuous mining machine. An instructor's guide is included to help you use this video as part of an effective training session.
• Probability of Making a Successful Mine Escape While Wearing a Self-Contained Self-Rescuer - A Computer Simulation
  1/1/1990 - Reports of Investigations
  In an effort to estimate the chances of a miner making a successful escape while wearing a self-contained self rescuer (SCSR), a computer simulation was developed.
• 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...
• Mine Safety Education and Training Seminar: Proceedings: Bureau of Mines Technology Transfer Seminar
  1/1/1988 - Conference proceedings, Information Circulars
  This proceedings volume presents several new developments that are helping to improve the quality and efficiency of health, safety, and occupational skills training in the mining community. Several papers address the issue of how to teach and assess min...
• A Primer on Explosives for Coal Miners
  1/1/1911 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  An archived publication from the early days of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. This little book on explosives is published in the hope that it may aid in preventing accidents resulting from the improper use of explosives in mining.