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• 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.
• Effectively Recognizing Hazards
  3/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A trade publication article discussing NIOSH research into hazard recognition and workplace examinations at stone, sand, and gravel mines.
• The ABCs of KSAs
  1/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  A trade publication article on assessing the self-escape knowledge, skills and abilities of coal miners.
• Hazard Recognition Challenge
  10/3/2017 - Web software
  Are you up to the challenge? Try your hand at our new web application that challenges users to find the hazards in four locations at a surface stone operation.
• Defining Hazard from the Mine Worker's Perspective
  11/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article by NIOSH that examines how miners at stone, sand & gravel mines think, understand, and perceive hazards at their workplaces, as learned through interviews.
• Virtual Reality to Train and Assess Emergency Responders
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A research project designed to determine optimal use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for training and assessing mine emergency responders.
• Improvements to Mine Escape Training
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to ensure that suitable information exists for properly training underground coal miners on appropriate procedures for escaping from dangerous situations such as fires, explosions, and inundations.