Usability Design Guidelines for Training in Mine Safety and Health

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• Personal Author:
  Brown L ; Poulton M
• Description:
  For more than a decade, training practitioners have been calling for changes in the way new and experienced miners are trained. In this work, we propose 15 design guidelines to improve mine safety and health training, focusing on the training media and delivery methods. Our guidelines are derived from a multiyear needs assessment using a data-driven process called Contextual Inquiry. Over one thousand individual pieces of evidence were collected through observations, interviews, apprenticeships, and artifacts, covering a variety of required topics in MSHA new miner and annual refresher courses. Derivation and cross-validation of the design guidelines is provided through top-down and bottom-up analysis of inductive models. Our findings illustrate four principal themes of usability problems, which include limited accessibility, lack of context, lack of consequences, and absence of practicum. Example solutions are provided using active learning techniques and serious games. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety Software Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Computerized Simulation Computer Software Information Dissemination Miners Mine Safety Mining Industry Safety Education Training Worker Safety
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  29
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053218
• Citation:
  2018 SME Annual Meeting Technical Sessions, February 25-28, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2018 Feb; :29
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona, Tucson
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100901
• Source Full Name:
  2018 SME Annual Meeting Technical Sessions, February 25-28, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216018/cdc_216018_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 473.31 KB ]