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• Inexperience as a Contributor to Workplace Injury
  4/26/2023 - Research projects
  A project to characterize the effect that inexperience has on risk of injury and to reduce related risks for miners new to the industry, to specific worksites, or to their jobs or tasks.
• Use of Occupational Ethnography and Social Marketing Strategies to Develop a Safety Awareness Campaign for Coal Miners
  12/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article describes how occupational ethnographic techniques provided insights needed for "new product development."
• Technology News 513 - Coaching Workshop for On-the-Job Trainers
  2/1/2006 - Technology News
  Describes a guide for developing an effective formalized on-the-job (OJT) program. The guide contains materials and suggestions for conducting a 1-day workshop for teaching OJT trainers how to be better coaches to less experienced workers. It incorporat...
• Coaching Skills for On-the-Job Trainers
  8/1/2005 - Information Circulars, Training materials
  This training package describes how to develop or manage an on-the-job training program so that information is passed on from trainer/coach to trainee efficiently and effectively.
• 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.
• Getting Through to Greenhorns: Do Old Training Styles Work with New Miners?
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  What are the training needs of the younger generation of inexperienced miners? Currently, many trainers are of the so-called Baby Boom generation. Can these different age groups learn to communicate across the generation gap?
• The Work Crew Performance Model: A Method for Defining and Building Upon the Expertise Within an Experienced Work Force
  2/1/1994 - Conference papers
  This paper discusses a practical method for enhancing the performance of mining work crews. The method, described as the Work Crew Performance Model, seeks to define performance variability within similar tasks of an underground work crew.