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• HASARD - An Electromagnetic-Based Proximity Warning System
  12/20/2019 - Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists, Unpublished documents and reports
  This web page details the original development by the NIOSH Office of Mine Safety and Health Research of a novel electromagnetic-based proximity warning (PW) system to warn underground coal miners whenever they get too close to continuous mining machines.
• Advanced Tutorial on Wireless Communication and Electronic Tracking: Introduction
  5/9/2019 - Training materials
  This tutorial provides an advanced discussion of the available CT technologies, operating characteristics and general system performance considerations with descriptions of specific uses for primary and secondary communications.
• Heat Stress: A Series of Fact Sheets for Promoting Safe Work in Hot Mining Settings
  2/17/2017 - Fact Sheets, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  This series of fact sheets covers heat stress topics from acclimitization and hydration to first aid for heat illness and risk factors, and also includes a discussion about work and rest schedules.
• BG 4 Benching Trainer Software
  6/12/2015 - PC software, Training materials
  3D virtual reality-based software to teach the benching process for the BG 4 self-contained breathing apparatus used in mine rescue.
• How to use the Coal Dust Explosibility Meter
  4/18/2013 - Training materials, Videos and multimedia
  This is a series of 5 videos explaining how to use the coal dust explosibility meter.
• Basic Tutorial on Wireless Communication and Electronic Tracking: Technology Overview
  2/6/2013 - Training materials
  This tutorial provides a brief overview of CT systems intended to meet the needs of people who require a basic understanding of the distinguishing features and operations of different CT systems.
• What Does a Hearing Loss Sound Like?
  9/19/2012 - Training materials
  Loud noise can permanently damage your hearing. It especially affects the sounds that help you understand speech. To hear what this sounds like, try these computer-generated samples.
• Derating Factors for Round and Flat Mine Trailing Cables
  9/17/2012 - Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists, Unpublished documents and reports
  Concerns about the present derating factors used for reeled trailing cables prompted researchers at the NIOSH to determine new derating factors for reeled coal mining trailing cables.
• When Do You Take Refuge? Decisionmaking During Mine Emergency Escape
  8/1/2011 - PC software, Reports of Investigations, Training materials
  This training exposes trainees to the types of decisions that they may need to make during a mine emergency escape and stimulate group discussion about when and why to use a refuge alternative.
• Man Mountain's Refuge: Refuge Chamber Training Instructor's Guide and Trainee's Problem Book
  7/1/2011 - Reports of Investigations, Training materials
  This instructor’s guide is designed for use by instructors who train mine employees on how and when to use a mine refuge chamber, and aids the instructor in reinforcing the critical decisions that have to be made during a mining emergency.