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• Guidelines for the Development of a New Miner Training Curriculum
  1/1/2008 - Information Circulars, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  This report is intended to help mine safety trainers better prepare to teach new underground coal miners. It identifies 2 different approaches to instruction, i.e. using a syllabus or using a curriculum, and discusses their pros and cons.
• 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."
• Aggregate Training for the Safety Impaired
  1/1/2007 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials, Videos and multimedia
  This video follows two new hires through their first week on the job. Ted and Slick have not paid attention in training class and prove to be hazards to themselves as well as everyone around them.
• 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.
• Technology News 502 - A New Training Video for Aggregate Operators: Aggregate Training for the Safety Impaired
  1/1/2003 - Technology News
  Discusses a video developed by NIOSH to provide safety training for workers in aggregate operations. Although the target audience was primarily new hires, the finished video was also to be relevant to more experienced workers.
• Zen and the Art of Rockbolting
  1/1/2002 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Videos and multimedia
  The main theme of this video is how to work safely AND efficiently.
• 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.