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• The Sky is Falling
  8/1/2004 - Videos and multimedia
  This video tackles the issue of highwall safety in surface mining and construction.
• Toolbox Training For Construction Aggregate Miners
  8/1/2004 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials
  This NIOSH Toolbox Training program contains 52 different modules designed to stimulate safety discussions among employees. Each module is intended to be completed in roughly 10 or 15 minutes, so a Toolbox Training session can be conducted once a week...
• 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.
• The Concept of Degraded Images Applied to Hazard Recognition Training in Mining for Reduction of Lost-Time Injuries
  7/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses the application of a training intervention that uses degraded images for improving the hazard recognition skills of miners.
• 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.
• Considerations in Training On-the-Job Trainers
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  On-the-job training (OJT) is a very common method of teaching job skills. Health, safety, and operational skills can be connected through training. Haul truck operator training is used to illustrate some of the concepts discussed in this paper.
• 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.