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• Safety Concerns Associated With the Use of Electrically Powered Haulage to Remove Workers from Mines During Main Fan Stoppages
  10/1/2002 - Conference papers
  The roles of main mine fans in underground mines are to induce airflow and continuously remove hazardous gases and dust. This paper concentrates on those mines having only one fan to provide ventilation needs.
• Technology News 497 - "You Are My Sunshine": A New Video Release From NIOSH on the Sunshine Mine Fire
  8/1/2002 - Technology News
  Experience, it is said, is the best teacher. Some experiences, however, should be shared so that no one else will ever have to live through them again. The fire at the Sunshine Mine is one such experience.
• Issues for Training an Evolving Emergency Management Workforce: A View from the U.S. Mining Community
  5/1/2002 - Conference papers
  This paper reviews research from the U.S. mining community to define issues relevant to an evolving national and international workforce and relate them to the emergency response population.
• CFD Modeling of Smoke Reversal
  6/1/2001 - Conference papers
  In the present study, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program is used as a design tool to model floor-level fires in a ventilated tunnel.
• Hidden Scars
  1/1/2001 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Videos and multimedia
  Hidden Scars is an interview with a veteran hard rock miner who recounts the events surrounding a 1994 rock burst that buried him and his partner, killing his partner and severely injuring him.
• An Underground Coal Mine Fire Preparedness and Response Checklist: The Instrument
  8/1/2000 - Information Circulars
  Provides a detailed description of a data collection instrument used to profile the fire prevention and response capabilities of a mine site.
• Behavioral and Organizational Dimensions of Underground Mine Fires
  5/1/2000 - Information Circulars
  A scientific study of human behavior during an escape from a fire in an effort to understand and derive benefits for design, engineering and safety efforts.
• Computerized Accident Reconstruction and Training for Metal/Non-Metal Mines
  12/1/1999 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  NIOSH is developing computer programs that will be used to educate mine workers on the hazards of mining, as well as train miners in evacuation routes and evacuation procedures.
• Performance Comparison of Rescue Breathing Apparatus
  10/1/1999 - Reports of Investigations
  A performance comparison of 14 rescue breathing apparatus was undertaken as an assessment of past and present worldwide technology. Rescue breathing apparatus are self-contained, closed-circuit breathing apparatus used for entry into areas having atmosp...
• The Emergency Communication Triangle
  10/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials
  This training material focuses on the content of emergency warning messages. A procedure, using mental cues that can be used by senders and receivers of emergency warnings, is presented.