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• Overview of U.S. Research on Three Approaches to Ensuring That Coal Miners Work Safely: Management, Workplace Design and Training
  2/1/1997 - Conference papers
  This paper summarized the past 20 years of U.S. research to ensure that underground coal miners work safely.
• Encouraging Self-Protective Employee Behavior: What Do We Know?
  1/1/1995 - Conference papers
  The intent of this article is to provide guidance to mine operators concerning the use of four techniques for influencing mine employees to work safely: (1) employee surveys, (2) incentives, (3) fear communications, and (4) disciplinary actions.
• A Missing Component in Your Emergency Management Plans: The Critical Incident Stress Factor
  4/1/1994 - Conference papers
  In emergency management, the effects of stress on the performance of emergency personnel, typically have been ignored or regarded as too enigmatic to quantify. This paper discusses the concept of Critical Incident Stress in responders to emergencies. It...
• Developing and Maintaining Safety Programs for Improved Worker Performance: Don't Forget the Basics
  1/1/1994 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This paper reviews the basics of developing safety interventions aimed at improving worker performance and describes approaches for maintaining program effectiveness. Emphasis is given to identifying performance discrepancies (hazardous behaviors) by ob...
• Review of Recent Research on Organizational and Behavioral Factors Associated With Mine Safety
  1/1/1989 - Information Circulars
  This report presents a literature review conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines summarizing what has been learned from recent empirical studies of the relationship between mine safety and the characteristics of miners, mine management, and mining companies.
• Characterization of the 1986 Metal and Nonmetal Mining Workforce
  1/1/1988 - Data and statistics, Information Circulars
  A 1986 probability sample survey, mining industry population survey, to measure such employee characteristics as occupation; principal equipment operated; work location at the mine; present job, present company, and total mining experience.
• A Short-Range Locator System for Detecting Trapped Miners
  1/1/1984 - Reports of Investigations
  A short-range locator system capable of locating trapped miners has been devised. The system consists of a light-weight, low-power radio transmitter incorporated into a miners cap lamp battery and a directional receiver carried by rescuers.
• Development of a Supervisory and Management Training Program for the Underground Coal Mining Industry
  5/1/1983 - Contract reports
  This report describes a project in which Development of a Supervisory and Management Training Program for the Underground Coal mining Industry was developed and evaluated.
• Assessment of Present Electromagnetic Techniques for the Location of Trapped Miners
  7/1/1980 - Conference papers
  Field studies have been conducted in a large number of coal mines throughout the U.S. to determine the effectiveness of electromagnetic techniques in locating men trapped underground following a mine disaster.
• Underground Mine Communications
  1/1/1978 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Extensive analysis of mine-communications systems has identified specific areas, in particular the excessive times required to locate key personnel underground, the inadequacy of existing phone systems in terms of capacity and privacy and the inability ...