Report of Investigations 9692: Incorporating Judgment and Decisionmaking into Quarterly Mine Escape Training Based on a Mine Fire Scenario

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Brnich, Michael J. Jr. ; Hall, Erica E.
• Description:
  The major coal mine disasters of 2006 raised a number of issues about mine emergency preparedness and response. These included concerns about miners' judgment and decision-making skills under the stress of a mine escape and miners' familiarity with escape procedures. In response, researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) sought to learn how mines are incorporating judgment and decision-making skills into mine escape training. They took an in-depth look at previous research on judgment and decision-making in self-rescue and escape training. They also conducted interviews with safety and training personnel from six underground coal operations to understand how mine operators are conducting mandatory quarterly escape training. This report discusses findings from these interviews, presents an analysis of previous research on judgment and decision-making in self-rescue and escape, and offers guidance to trainers on how to build judgment and decision-making into quarterly training drills. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  221645
  
  Michael J. Brnich, Jr., Erica E. Hall.
  
  "November 2013."
  
  Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (5.97 MB, 24 p.).
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 15).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Decision Making Emergencies Mining Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Coal-mining; Training; Underground-mining; Mine-disasters; Mine-fires; Mine-escapes; Emergency-response; Decision-making
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2014-101 (RI 9692), 2013 Nov; :1-16
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2014101
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OMSHR - Office of Mine Safety and Health Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  24 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043381
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-101817
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1377c46dff5567c69e54e5d87d47051cde669a22b025b99cf6c348cedf6fc0f68fec6aa5faebd97f507a609e86d45caa5f68af33d99988474aff1502e9f566ac
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/21992/cdc_21992_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.97 MB ]