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• 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.
• Technology News 563 - Hazard Recognition Training Tool Allows Mineworkers to Perform Virtual Workplace Examination
  4/22/2020 - Technology News
  Learn how mineworkers can practice searching for hazards in virtual work environments using panoramic scenes on a laptop or PC.
• Hazard Recognition Training Tool Allows Mineworkers to Perform Virtual Workplace Examination
  4/19/2020 - Technology News
  Use this software to practice searching for hazards in virtual work environments while performing a virtual workplace examination.
• Enhancing Mine Workers' Abilities to Identify Hazards at Sand, Stone, and Gravel Mines
  3/10/2020 - Research projects
  A project to characterize sand, stone, and gravel mine workers’ ability to recognize worksite hazards and to understand how this ability relates to perceived and measured risk as well as to other factors internal and external.
• EXAMiner
  3/2/2020 - PC software
  Use EXAMiner to practice and teach hazard recognition skills for mining operations in any sector.
• 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.
• Using Performance Management Strategies to Improve Mine Emergency Training and Preparedness
  11/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A report on one company’s efforts to improve its mineworkers’ self-escape competencies using competency-based performance management strategies, including assessment and remediation processes.