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• 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.
• Tell Me a Story: Using Narrative to Teach Safety to Skilled Blue-Collar Workers
  3/1/2003 - Conference papers
  A discussion of how training videos created to get safety messages to miners were developed, how "master miners" and story lines were chosen, and how the resulting videos have been received in the mining industry.
• 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?
• Communicating the Same Message with Different Media: An Example from Hearing Loss Prevention
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  This paper describes advantages and disadvantages of different delivery systems for educational messages and shows what considerations are helpful in designing content that can be readily adapted to alternative presentations.
• Releasing the Energy of Workers to Create a Safer Workplace: The Value of Using Mentors to Enhance Safety Training
  9/1/2002 - Information Circulars
  The mentor/learner model is a time-honored approach to teaching. This paper highlights the unique advantages of using mentoring as a teaching method in the mining industry that can make the educational experience both interesting and effective.