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• Teaching Miners: Breaking the Barriers to Learning
  10/1/2003 - Conference papers
  Miners, like many skilled blue-collar workers, are not traditional learners. They have not always been successful in classroom-type settings, preferring to learn on the job in a hands-on environment.
• The Concept of Degraded Images Applied to Hazard Recognition Training in Mining for Reduction of Lost-Time Injuries
  7/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses the application of a training intervention that uses degraded images for improving the hazard recognition skills of miners.
• Tell Me a Story: Using Narrative to Teach Safety to Skilled Blue-Collar Workers
  3/1/2003 - Conference papers
  A discussion of how training videos created to get safety messages to miners were developed, how "master miners" and story lines were chosen, and how the resulting videos have been received in the mining industry.
• Selected Health Issues in Mining
  2/1/2003 - Conference papers
  This paper briefly discusses the current status and research activities aimed at protecting miners from of some miner health-related issues, including coal and silica dust, diesel, asbestos, noise, lead etc.
• Principles of Adult Learning: Application for Mine Trainers
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  Discusses the principals of adult learning based on research in education and psychology, and stresses the importance of taking a systems approach to training.
• Mining Facts for 2000
  5/1/2002 - Brochures/flyers/pamphlets, NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  Mining Facts are one-page mining fact sheets covering a variety of topics of general interest relating to mining operations, workers, fatalities, nonfatal lost-time injuries, and occupational illness.
• Inaccuracy of Area Sampling for Measuring the Dust Exposure of Mining Machine Operators in Coal Mines
  2/1/2002 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study examines the accuracy of area sampling for measuring the dust exposure of mining machine operators at coal mine working faces. The work was prompted by the development of a prospective new type of dust sampling instrument called the machine-...
• Technology for Remote Mine Seal Construction
  2/1/2002 - Conference papers
  Mine fires can be especially perilous because toxic products can quickly spread well beyond the fire zone thereby exposing all underground miners to dangerous and deadly conditions. This paper provides a review of the available materials and technology ...
• The Evolving Mining Workforce: Training Issues
  8/1/2001 - Conference papers
  A major concern in the mining industry today is how to train the present aging workforce plus the expected influx of new and less experienced miners and mine operators as the cohort of older workers retire.
• Ergonomics Considerations for Reducing Cumulative Trauma Exposure in Underground Mining
  1/1/2001 - Book chapters
  The US Bureau of Mines conducted an evaluation of roof-bolting tasks performed at an underground coal mine concerned about early warning signs of cumulative trauma.