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• Look Up, Look Down, Look Out
  9/1/2004 - Brochures/flyers/pamphlets
  A brochure about power line safety.
• Technology News 506 - The Sky is Falling!: NIOSH Releases Safety Video for Surface Mining Operations
  8/1/2004 - Technology News
  Investigators collaborated to develop a new training module that would address the hazards of working around highwalls. Such a module would be applicable to surface mines and road construction sites, both of which require personnel to work under and on ...
• The Sky is Falling
  8/1/2004 - Videos and multimedia
  This video tackles the issue of highwall safety in surface mining and construction.
• Safety and Health Training for an Evolving Workforce: An Overview From the Mining Industry
  7/1/2004 - Information Circulars
  A major concern in the mining industry is how to provide training for an aging workforce as well as training for the less experienced miners.
• Expectations vs. Experience: Training Lessons Based Upon Miners' Difficulties when Using Emergency Breathing Apparatus
  4/1/2004 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A field test of the NIOSH-developed training product "I Can't Get Enough Air" was conducted to determine if it led to improvements in miner's scores on a true/false test of their SCSR's functional capabilities and proper usage.
• Focus on Prevention: Conducting a Hazard Risk Assessment
  7/1/2003 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials
  The first step to emergency preparedness and maintaining a safe workplace is defining and analyzing hazards.
• 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.
• Judgment and Decision Making Under Stress: An Overview for Emergency Managers
  6/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses human judgment and decision making under stress. The authors assert that stress is one of the factors that decision makers must contend with in most life-or-death situations.
• 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.
• Technology News 502 - A New Training Video for Aggregate Operators: Aggregate Training for the Safety Impaired
  1/1/2003 - Technology News
  Discusses a video developed by NIOSH to provide safety training for workers in aggregate operations. Although the target audience was primarily new hires, the finished video was also to be relevant to more experienced workers.