The ABCs of KSAs: Assessing the Self-Escape Knowledge, Skills and Abilities of Coal Miners

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• Personal Author:
  Brnich, Michael J. ; Hoebbel, Cassandra L. ; Ryan, Margaret E.
• Description:
  What simple step can help to prevent a mine emergency from becoming a mine disaster? Preparation. ... The Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 (MINER Act) strengthened existing safety and health training regulations and introduced new measures aimed at improving emergency preparedness and response in underground coal mines. Although the MINER Act also required non-specified assessment of the self-escape KSAs of miners, there is no standard protocol dictating how to teach or evaluate these competencies. Now more than 10 years later, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) expanded its research to answer these important questions: 1. What are the critical self-escape competencies that all miners need in order to be prepared to respond to an emergency? 2. In light of training regulations that are now a decade old, how confident are miners in their ability to self-escape in the event of an emergency? ... Survey results suggest that, despite united efforts to improve health and safety training by researchers and industry alike, there are still many gaps in critical self-escape KSAs among mineworkers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Disaster Planning Emergencies Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Disaster Planning Emergency Management Emergency Preparedness Mine Escapes Mine Fires Mining Industry Refuge Chambers Safety Education
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1091-0646
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  30-34
• Volume:
  123
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053101
• Citation:
  Coal Age 2018 Jan-Feb; 123(1):30-34
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Coal Age
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227741/cdc_227741_DS1.pdf
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