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• Technology News 522 - Blast Area Security: Flyrock Safety
  12/1/2006 - Technology News
  NIOSH has released communication products about flyrock safety via information brochures, flashcards, and toolbox talk materials. These products target the mining and construction industries, and can be used for employee and visitor training.
• 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.
• Toolbox Training on Flyrock Awareness
  12/1/2005 - Training materials
  A training product to improve blast safety by providing information about blasting to those who work around blast sites
• Strategies for Improving Miners' Training
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  This NIOSH Information Circular presents basic principles for teaching adults and provides examples of how these principles can be used to develop and implement effective training for miners.
• Mine Rescue and Response
  9/1/2000 - Conference papers
  This paper describes technology and training that has been identified for underground emergency responders.
• NIOSH Mining Infographics
  12/23/2020 - Fact Sheets
  Use these NIOSH Mining infographics to learn about hazards and what steps you can take to stay safe.
• 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.