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• Harry's Hard Choices: Mine Refuge Chamber Training
  3/1/2009 - Information Circulars, Training materials
  This paper-and-pencil simulation teaches miners about issues related to self-rescue and escape, including information gathering, knowing one's escapeways, use of SCSRs, the value of multigas detectors, and when to enter a refuge chamber.
• Emergency Decision-making: Underground Coal Mine Escape Scenarios
  3/1/2023 - Training materials, Web software
  Use this training to practice making difficult decisions when escaping a mine during an emergency.
• Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies (UMET) and Human Factors Research
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with the University of Missouri to advance knowledge and frontiers in mine emergency evacuations and provide the basis for technology interventions that ensure safe miner self-escape as envisaged by the 2006 MINER Act.
• Evaluation and Testing of Pressure Relief Valves (PRVs) for Refuge Alternatives Subjected to Explosive Forces
  12/17/2021 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to test and evaluate the survivability and reliability of pressure relief valves on refuge alternatives when subjected to explosive conditions.
• 10/19/2016 NIOSH Refuge Alternative Partnership Meeting
  12/9/2021 - Calls for participation
  Refuge alternative partnership meeting held on Oct. 19, 2016.
• 6/7/2017 Refuge Alternative Workshop
  12/9/2021 - Presentations
  The agenda of the June 7, 2017, Refuge Alternative Workshop
• 2/10/2015 Refuge Alternative Partnership Agenda & Minutes
  12/9/2021 - Conferences, workshops, and seminars
  The agenda and minutes for the 2/10/2015 Refuge Alternative Partnership meeting.
• 6/23/2016 Refuge Alternative Webinar
  11/23/2021 - Presentations
  The agenda for the June 23, 2016, webinar on Refuge Alternatives.
• Disaster Survivability for Refuge Alternative Relief Valves
  1/4/2021 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A description of NIOSH test methods used to evaluate refuge alternative relief valves for their ability to withstand overpressure generated during a survivable mine explosion.
• Underground Mine Refuge Alternatives Heat Mitigation
  4/22/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article detailing NIOSH tests on an air-conditioned borehole air supply (BAS) and a cryogenic air supply for refuge alternatives.