Human Factors and Training for Accident Reduction

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• Personal Author:
  Wiehagen, William J.
• Description:
  Bureau of Mines Human Factors Research aims at improving mine health and safety profiles through better work station and system design and through better methods and media for employee training. Investigations are of two types: (1) Ergonomics - seeks to establish permanent improvements in the organizational and physical design of the workplace; and (2) education and training - applies available learning technology to the specific training needs of the mining community. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Ergonomics Mining Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Coal-miners Coal-mining Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Training Underground-miners Underground-mining Work-areas Workers Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  67-78
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030913
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30, 1979. Shaw CT, ed., Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979 Aug; :67-78
• Editor(s):
  Shaw CT
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30, 1979
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:82a974fb087532f2d9208769b44b51f9e69d429e81fa5515dd5b267ffe28c07fe44abe4829e776cac2c5f78e707c85654019f7c391e65a2705f9b7c01bc140f9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226644/cdc_226644_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.61 MB ]