Information Circular 9463: Strategies for Improving Miners' Training

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Peters, Robert H.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A growing concern among mine safety professionals regards the training of new workers. A major change in the mining workforce is anticipated within the next decade. In major segments of mining, especially coal, relatively few workers have been hired since the 1970''s. Thus, as an entire cohort of miners in the current workforce nears retirement, the replacement of these employees will require an influx of new workers. New miners may be young people who lack the ability to recognize and respond to mining hazards in an appropriate manner. they may also have had different educational experiences than their older counterparts. Many safety professionals believe that these two cohorts require different approaches to training. The papers in this report should help prepare mine trainers for the changes about to occur in the workforce and acquaint them with strategies they can use to enhance the effectiveness of their training. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references.
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Mine-workers; Miners; Mining-industry; Training; Age-groups; Age-factors; Underground-miners; Underground-mining; Coal-miners; Coal-mining; Coal-workers; Mining-equipment; Occupational-safety-programs
• 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. 2002-156, (IC 9463), 2002 Sep; :1-54
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory ; SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  57 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022093
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2003-100259
• Editor(s):
  Peters RH
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f5910b3838e07d73117166ed47ce11b49a74e7b1f002d93fc9a9fb6151bdd59b83f4e564464129b8678a00555d25d9f43c08d455e9f588ae82d61e4527fced82
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6553/cdc_6553_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.26 MB ]