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• Enhancing Mine Workers' Abilities to Identify Hazards at Sand, Stone, and Gravel Mines
  3/10/2020 - Research projects
  A project to characterize sand, stone, and gravel mine workers’ ability to recognize worksite hazards and to understand how this ability relates to perceived and measured risk as well as to other factors internal and external.
• Assessing, Modeling, and Cooling Underground Workings in Deep and Hot Mines
  2/6/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to understand, analyze, and engineer the thermal and psychometric working conditions in deep and hot underground mines.
• DPM Research: Monitoring Responses to Ventilation and Control by Water Sprays, and Capacity Building for Mine Ventilation Expertise
  2/5/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract focused on the use of ventilation in controlling diesel particulate matter (DPM) levels, particularly in the context of challenging mining conditions.
• Establishing and Using Safety Committees at Work
  1/1/2020 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  An article examining how workplace safety committees can improve employee engagement.
• It's Time to End Death by Power Point: Engage Employees During Training and Beyond
  1/1/2020 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  An article presenting four tips for providing employees with high-quality safety training.
• Infographic: Do Your Workers Show Signs of Fatigue?
  8/30/2019 - Publications
  Use this infographic to learn more about the effects of fatigue on workers and what you can do to lower your risk.
• Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines Training Initiative
  2/21/2019 - Research projects
  A project to characterize the essential components of the mine emergency escape system and develop interventions designed to improve system preparedness and self-escape training of underground coal mining personnel.
• Using Performance Management Strategies to Improve Mine Emergency Training and Preparedness
  11/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A report on one company’s efforts to improve its mineworkers’ self-escape competencies using competency-based performance management strategies, including assessment and remediation processes.
• Improve Your Hazard Recognition Skills
  10/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing the development of NIOSH's EXAMiner software.
• Ideas from the Field: Training Responsible Persons to Lead and Succeed
  4/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A trade publication article that focuses on the need for coal miners to designate an on-site responsible person (RP) during a mine emergency.