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• Radio 101: Operating Two-Way Radios Every Day and in Emergencies
  8/1/2011 - Reports of Investigations, Training materials
  Radio 101 is a program to train miners in the use of two-way radio communication in the mines.
• Underground Mine Refuge Chamber Expectations Training: Program Development and Evaluation
  3/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) developed a training program to prepare miners for what to expect psychologically and physiologically inside of a refuge chamber.
• Underground Coal Mining Injury: A Look at How Age and Experience Relate to Days Lost from Work Following an Injury
  4/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study used the MSHA database on accidents, injury, and illness from the years 2003-2007 to examine how age and experience at the current mine, total years experience as a coal miner, and experience in the current job affects injury severity.
• One Hundred Years of Federal Mining Safety and Health Research
  2/1/2010 - Information Circulars
  This publication provides an historical overview of research undertaken by the U.S. federal government over the last 100 years to improve the health and safety of our nation's miners. Federal research efforts began with the establishment of the U.S. Bur...
• Update on Refuge Alternatives: Research, Recommendations, and Underground Deployment
  12/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This document highlights NIOSH's research and recommendations concerning refuge alternatives, survivability evaluations of refuge chambers, and presents a brief review of the current deployment of refuge chambers in underground coal mines in the U.S.
• Advanced Measurement Methods in Mining
  11/1/2008 - Book chapters
  This paper features how researchers use DHM to assess and ultimately decrease the occupational risk and threats faced by underground coal mine machine operators.
• Tell Me a Story: Using Stories to Improve Occupational Safety Training
  7/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article discusses the social and cultural power of stories, and how they have been used to develop training for skilled blue-collar workers.
• An Examination of Antecedents to Coal Miners' Hearing Protection Behaviors: A Test of the Theory of Planned Behavior
  2/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The motivation behind this investigation was to apply an established theory to better understand three potential antecedents to intentions toward wearing hearing protection among coal miners.
• Miners' Views About Personal Dust Monitors
  2/1/2008 - Information Circulars
  This report summarizes a field study by NIOSH that documented the reactions of 30 miners at 4 underground coal mines concerning the use of personal dust monitors (PDMs) and how they make use of the information it provides.
• Research Report on Refuge Alternatives for Underground Coal Mines
  12/1/2007 - Unpublished documents and reports
  Section 13 of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 ("MINER Act"), PL 109-236, required NIOSH to conduct "research, including field tests, concerning the utility, practicality, survivability, and cost of various refuge alternatives...