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• Refuge Chamber Training Products and Guidance
  9/22/2012 - Training materials
  To help instructors teach miners about the use of refuge chambers, NIOSH has developed a suite of training modules covering operations, decision-making and expectations.
• Refuge Alternatives in Underground Coal Mines
  9/17/2012 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop engineering guidelines associated with the location, construction, and general application of various refuge alternatives.
• Underground Mine Refuge Chamber Expectations Training: Program Development and Evaluation
  3/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) developed a training program to prepare miners for what to expect psychologically and physiologically inside of a refuge chamber.
• Update on Refuge Alternatives: Research, Recommendations, and Underground Deployment
  12/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This document highlights NIOSH's research and recommendations concerning refuge alternatives, survivability evaluations of refuge chambers, and presents a brief review of the current deployment of refuge chambers in underground coal mines in the U.S.
• NIOSH Docket Number 125: Refuge Alternative Research
  2/1/2008 - Catalogs and indexes, NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This docket contains the supporting information and key reference materials for the report NIOSH prepared summarizing its research into refuge alternatives in underground coal mines.
• Research Report on Refuge Alternatives for Underground Coal Mines
  12/1/2007 - Unpublished documents and reports
  Section 13 of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 ("MINER Act"), PL 109-236, required NIOSH to conduct "research, including field tests, concerning the utility, practicality, survivability, and cost of various refuge alternatives...
• Work-Principle Model for Predicting Toxic Fumes of Nonideal Explosives
  8/1/2004 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The work-principle from thermodynamics was used to formulate a model for predicting toxic fumes from mining explosives in underground tests, where rapid turbulent combustion in the surrounding air noticeably changes the resulting concentrations.
• Design and Instrumentation of a Large Reverberation Chamber
  6/1/2003 - Conference papers
  Documents the refurbishing and instrumentation of the PRL reverberation chamber to bring it up to compliance with the ISO 3743-2 standard for engineering grade measurements for broadband noise.