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• Enhancing Mine Workers' Self-escape by Integrating Competency Assessment into Training
  6/1/2015 - Reports of Investigations
  NIOSH researchers completed in-depth interviews with nine coal mine safety trainers about teaching and assessing Self-escape competencies (SEC). Based on the results recommendations are provided to improve training, assessment, and maintenance of SEC.
• Smart Escape SCBA
  2/6/2015 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop a “smart” self-contained open circuit breathing apparatus (SCBA) that protects against threat gasses and provides an extended duration of life-sustaining oxygen inhale stream by monitoring the surrounding atmosphere.
• Sprinkler Head Emergency Communications
  10/6/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to evaluate a fiber optic sprinkler head emergency communications system to determine if this concept can meet the communication, tracking, mine escape, and rescue requirements of an underground communication system.
• Rapid Response Rescue Drilling System Development for Mine Rescue Application
  8/15/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to identify equipment needs, available contractors, and the development and demonstration process for a rapid response drilling system for mine rescue operations.
• Refuge Chamber Deployment and Occupancy Status During Mine Emergency Situations
  8/14/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to incorporate a wireless base station into the MagneLink Magnetic Communication System (MCS) and to develop a mechanism that automatically activates a portable wireless text messaging device when a refuge chamber is opened or deployed.
• Snake Robot for Mine Rescue
  7/18/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to leverage the on-going development of the new generation Tandem Track (TT) snake robot, by modifying this new system in a way that makes it suitable for operations in underground mines.
• Performance-Based Fire Safety Designs for Self-Escape in Underground Mines
  7/17/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to minimize mine fires through further study of mine fire occurrence and behavior, devise firefighting methods, and train graduate students in mine engineering and fire engineering.
• Incorporating Judgment and Decisionmaking into Quarterly Mine Escape Training Based on a Mine Fire Scenario
  11/5/2013 - Reports of Investigations
  This report discusses previous research on judgment and decisionmaking in self-rescue and escape, presents findings from interviews with trainers, and offers guidance on building judgment and decisionmaking into mandatory quarterly training drills.
• Emergency Communications and Tracking
  7/24/2013 - Research areas
  Emergency Communications and Tracking Topic Page
• Inundations Can Put Miners at Risk by Blocking Escape Routes
  9/28/2012 - News articles
  Inundation, or water suddenly entering a mine, is not that uncommon.