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• 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.
• 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.
• Technology News 496 - NIOSH Releases New Computer-Based Training Exercise Called MERITS
  6/1/2002 - Technology News
  MERITS simulates underground and surface events related to the disaster. It exposes the user to events that typically occur during a mine emergency, such as lack of information and miscommunication. It also presents trainees with issues that must be add...
• The Evolving Mining Workforce: Training Issues
  8/1/2001 - Conference papers
  A major concern in the mining industry today is how to train the present aging workforce plus the expected influx of new and less experienced miners and mine operators as the cohort of older workers retire.
• A Performance Approach to Training Research
  1/1/2000 - Conference papers
  A summary of (a) training techniques to act competently in emergencies; (b) simulations that enhance the perceptual, judgment and decision making skills of workers and (c) the linkages between financial investments and skills training.
• An Overview of Technology and Training Simulations for Mine Rescue Teams
  6/1/1999 - Conference papers
  A series of mine rescue training exercises was developed, conducted, and evaluated by NIOSH in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Deep Mine Safety and several mining companies.
• An Ounce of Prevention: Training Workers to Prevent a Crisis
  4/1/1999 - Conference papers
  This paper introduces a technique for incorporating employee participation into the prevention component of a contingency plan.
• Training to Improve Emergency Communication Skills
  5/1/1998 - Conference papers
  This paper introduces a method for teaching workers to communicate necessary information when giving or receiving emergency warning messages.