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• Refuge Chamber Training Products and Guidance
  12/28/2023 - 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.
• Information Dissemination during Mine Emergencies
  11/28/2023 - Research projects
  A project to develop an eLearning module to share with potential command center leaders and mine rescue team members to help them successfully mitigate the risks to endangered workers and responders during mine emergencies.
• Advancing Self-escape Training: A Needs Analysis Based on the National Academy of Sciences Report "Improving Self-escape from Underground Coal Mines"
  6/26/2023 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  A summary of needs analysis NIOSH conducted based on the National Academy of Sciences' recommendations for advancing self-escape training.
• Self-escape Core Competency Profile: Guidance for Improving Underground Coal Miners' Self-escape Competency
  6/26/2023 - Information Circulars
  Use the Guidance for Improving Underground Coal Miners' Self-escape Competency document for planning and implementing self-escape training and assessement strategies at underground coal mines.
• Keeping Cool: Training to Reduce Heat Stress Incidents
  3/17/2023 - Training materials, Web software
  Use Keeping Cool to teach workers how to recognize heat-related illness and provide first aid.
• 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.
• Coal Mine Dust Mitigation Through Novel Scrubber Development and Numerical Modeling
  12/17/2021 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract focused on coal dust mitigation utilizing a novel scrubber and numerical modeling.
• Innovative Solutions for Heat Management in Hot Underground Mines: Ventilation Research and Capacity Building
  10/9/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract focused on state-of-the-art ventilation engineering related to the management of heat in hot underground mines.
• 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.