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• Information Dissemination during Mine Emergencies
  11/28/2023 - Research projects
  A project to develop an eLearning module to share with potential command center leaders and mine rescue team members to help them successfully mitigate the risks to endangered workers and responders during mine emergencies.
• Advancing Self-escape Training: A Needs Analysis Based on the National Academy of Sciences Report "Improving Self-escape from Underground Coal Mines"
  6/26/2023 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  A summary of needs analysis NIOSH conducted based on the National Academy of Sciences' recommendations for advancing self-escape training.
• Self-escape Core Competency Profile: Guidance for Improving Underground Coal Miners' Self-escape Competency
  6/26/2023 - Information Circulars
  Use the Guidance for Improving Underground Coal Miners' Self-escape Competency document for planning and implementing self-escape training and assessement strategies at underground coal mines.
• Special Medical Response Team Visits Pittsburgh
  5/22/2023 - News articles
  Members of the Special Medical Response Team recently paid a visit to NIOSH's Pittsburgh campus to train, learn, and collaborate.
• Emergency Decision-making: Underground Coal Mine Escape Scenarios
  3/1/2023 - Training materials, Web software
  Use this training to practice making difficult decisions when escaping a mine during an emergency.
• Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies (UMET) and Human Factors Research
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with the University of Missouri to advance knowledge and frontiers in mine emergency evacuations and provide the basis for technology interventions that ensure safe miner self-escape as envisaged by the 2006 MINER Act.
• Escape, Rescue, and Training
  9/22/2020 - Research projects
  A project to provide support for the planning, development, and dissemination of training products and methodologies for the planning and implementation of escape and rescue activities for the NIOSH Mining Program.
• Visual-Inertial Drone Navigation for Underground Mine Environments
  2/6/2020 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop and evaluate autonomous navigation solutions for drones operating in GPS-denied mining environments.
• 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.
• Development of a Mine Rescue Support Vehicle
  12/1/2018 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  An article detailing the development of a mine rescue support vehicle prototype and describing the additional capabilities that are being integrated into the vehicle.