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• Informational Preferences of Coal Miners: The What, When and Who
  1/1/2017 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A trade publication piece by NIOSH on information and knowledge gathering in an era of new technologies. The survey discussed focuses on miners' perceptions of gas levels, airflow, dust levels, and the location of people and equipment.
• Task Analysis
  9/20/2012 - Catalogs and indexes
  Task analysis is one of the basic tools that an ergonomist has to design and evaluate systems.
• 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.
• Miners' Views about Personal Dust Monitors
  9/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This NIOSH paper documents coal miners’ reactions to the new Personal Dust Monitor (PDM), and how they make use of the information th PDM provides.
• Working in Noise with a Hearing Loss: Perceptions from Workers, Supervisors, and Hearing Conservation Program Managers
  12/1/2005 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study outlines potential challenges regarding job safety and hearing conservation practices for noise-exposed, hearing-impaired workers.
• Ergonomic Assessment of Musculoskeletal Risk Factors at Four Mine Sites: Underground Coal, Surface Copper, Surface Phosphate, and Underground Limestone
  8/1/2004 - Information Circulars
  This study examined musculoskeletal injury risk at four mining sites: underground coal, underground limestone, surface copper, and surface phosphate.
• Technology News 495 - NIOSH Releases New Educational Video: Recovery of Farmington No. 9 - An Interview with Danny Kuhn
  3/1/2002 - Technology News
  During an interview, Mr Kuhn spent about two hours describing the Farmington disaster, including the workplace climate leading up to the explosion, the events that took place in the 10 days after the explosion, and the nearly 10-year effort to safely an...
• Hidden Scars
  1/1/2001 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Videos and multimedia
  Hidden Scars is an interview with a veteran hard rock miner who recounts the events surrounding a 1994 rock burst that buried him and his partner, killing his partner and severely injuring him.
• The Challenge of Enforcing Safety Rules in Remote Hazardous Work Areas
  3/1/1999 - Conference papers
  This conference paper presents some findings obtained from interviews with coal miners about why supervisors sometimes fail to enforce an important mine safety rule.
• Evaluation of Mining Activities Using a Scenario Interview Approach
  10/1/1998 - Conference papers
  NIOSH researchers assert that the use of a realistic scenario interview will result in frank and detailed responses from face crew members. This approach provides an effective means of acquiring worker perceptions of the types of hazards that exist, the...