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• Enhancing Mine Workers' Self-escape by Integrating Competency Assessment into Training
  6/1/2015 - Reports of Investigations
  NIOSH researchers completed in-depth interviews with nine coal mine safety trainers about teaching and assessing Self-escape competencies (SEC). Based on the results recommendations are provided to improve training, assessment, and maintenance of SEC.
• Tell Me a Story: Why Stories are Essential to Effective Safety Training
  8/1/2005 - Reports of Investigations
  Adult learning theories, social learning theories, mentoring, and storytelling were all employed in the development of a series of safety training videos that have become very popular in the mining industry. This Report of Investigations describes the t...
• Transfer of Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Donning Skills Under Similar Conditions of Practice: The Draeger OXY-SR60B and the CSE SR-100
  1/1/1992 - Reports of Investigations
  The purpose of this U.S. Bureau of Mines study was to assess the ability of trainees to don an unfamiliar self-contained self-rescuer (SCSR) after having become familiar with how to put on a different type of apparatus.
• Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Donning Proficiency at Eight Eastern Underground Coal Mines
  1/1/1991 - Reports of Investigations
  This report presents the procedures used and findings from a U.S. Bureau of Mines evaluation of the self-contained self-rescuer (SCSR) donning proficiency of 243 miners at eight Eastern underground coal mines.