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• Technology News 507 - NIOSH Safety Talk: The Emergency Communication Triangle
  9/1/2004 - Technology News
  The "Emergency Communication Triangle" safety talk focuses on the content of emergency warning messages. It presents a procedure using mental cues that can be used by senders and receivers of emergency warnings.
• The Sky is Falling
  8/1/2004 - Videos and multimedia
  This video tackles the issue of highwall safety in surface mining and construction.
• Focus on Prevention: Conducting a Hazard Risk Assessment
  7/1/2003 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials
  The first step to emergency preparedness and maintaining a safe workplace is defining and analyzing hazards.
• Judgment and Decision Making Under Stress: An Overview for Emergency Managers
  6/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses human judgment and decision making under stress. The authors assert that stress is one of the factors that decision makers must contend with in most life-or-death situations.
• Technology News 502 - A New Training Video for Aggregate Operators: Aggregate Training for the Safety Impaired
  1/1/2003 - Technology News
  Discusses a video developed by NIOSH to provide safety training for workers in aggregate operations. Although the target audience was primarily new hires, the finished video was also to be relevant to more experienced workers.
• Developing Toolbox Training Materials for Mining
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  Toolbox training is short, informal training conducted at a worksite by technically competent persons for the benefit of a work team. The key feature of toolbox training is a focus on a work team and what is important to that group in its workplace.
• An Overview of the Evaluation Process for Mine Trainers
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  This paper gives a broad overview of training evaluation and is intended to give trainers a framework for assessing training evaluation strategies. The training evaluation worksheet at the end of this paper can be used to guide evaluation planning.
• Innovative Alternatives to Traditional Classroom Health and Safety Training
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  This paper discusses a technique developed in partnership with RAG Twentymile Coal Co., Oak Creek, CO, for incorporating employee participation at all levels in fire prevention and safe equipment operation training outside of traditional classrooms.
• Principles of Adult Learning: Application for Mine Trainers
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  Discusses the principals of adult learning based on research in education and psychology, and stresses the importance of taking a systems approach to training.
• Getting Through to Greenhorns: Do Old Training Styles Work with New Miners?
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  What are the training needs of the younger generation of inexperienced miners? Currently, many trainers are of the so-called Baby Boom generation. Can these different age groups learn to communicate across the generation gap?