Western Mining Safety & Health Training Resource Center: Facilitating Research to Practice through Learning Laboratories

西部矿业安全

• 批准号: 10765245
• 负责人: Leonard D Brown
• 金额: $ 24.3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10765245
• 关键词: Western; Mining; Safety; Health; Training

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT In our prior Miner Safety and Health Training Programs - Western United States (U60) grants, we developed the Learning Laboratories (LLs) program, which is an industry-academic collaboration involving three universities and more than 20 mining organizations and operators representing over 20,000 mine workers in the Western US. The LLs program provides needs-specific training resources and mentorship for miners, trainers, supervisors, and health and safety (H&S) professionals across all sectors of the industry. Operators participating in the LLs program have shown measurable improvements in H&S outcomes, including reductions in both average injuries and days lost, up to 23.6% and 72.5%, respectively. Building upon these successes, we will expand our LLs program through three specific aims: 1) Provide new pathways for training and research through collaborative learning laboratories. Our LLs program offers a powerful mechanism for collaboration between researchers, safety professionals, and industry trainers. The program will be expanded to meet all core elements of NIOSH’s Research to Practice (R2P) initiative. Specifically, we will increase partnerships with trainers serving contractors, small operators, and other underserved groups and MSHA State Grants programs. We will work with investigators in academia and at NIOSH to identify industry needs, deploy new and existing training materials, facilitate synergistic research agendas, and evaluate outcomes. We will enhance technology transfer by streamlining deployment of new computer and app-based materials to industry partners for use in training and continued development. We will improve communication among LL partners through meetings, workshops, and an online forum. We will facilitate evaluation through mentorship and a cloud-based data collection and analysis platform. 2) Improve health training. By adding new health modules to our training materials, many NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) cross-sector topic areas will be addressed, including chronic disease, musculoskeletal health, hearing loss prevention, respiratory health, and heat strain. We will also incorporate Total Worker Health topics such as mental health, substance abuse, and fatigue. 3) Develop, extend, and integrate a continuum of training resources. Successful training products developed by our program, NIOSH, and LL partners will be upgraded to incorporate new content, capabilities, and interoperability. We will develop resources addressing all levels of trainer capability, from easily integrated tabletop games to computer-based synthetic learning environments (SLEs). We will improve the accessibility of training and evaluation technologies, particularly for trainers serving smaller operators and at worksites lacking sophisticated computer hardware, using app-based mobile games and streaming services. Intermediate outcomes will include: 1) Improved H&S practices; 2) Workers empowered through active learning; 3) Increased sharing of effective training programs; and 4) An increased number of competent miners, trainers, supervisors and H&S personnel. The end outcomes of the program will include H&S culture change and reductions in mining injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.

项目总结/摘要 在我们之前的矿工安全和健康培训计划-美国西部（U60）赠款中，我们开发了 学习实验室（LLs）计划，这是一个涉及三所大学的行业-学术合作 以及代表西部2万多名矿工的20多个采矿组织和运营商， 我们LLS计划为矿工，培训师， 监督员和健康与安全（H&S）专业人员在行业的所有部门。参与的运营商 在LLS计划中，已经显示出H&S结果的可衡量的改善，包括两者的减少 平均伤损率和损失天数分别高达23.6%和72.5%。在这些成功的基础上，我们将 通过三个具体目标扩展我们的LLS计划：1）通过以下方式提供培训和研究的新途径 协作学习实验室。我们的LLS计划提供了一个强大的合作机制， 研究人员、安全专业人员和行业培训人员。该计划将扩大，以满足所有核心要素 NIOSH的研究实践（R2 P）倡议。具体而言，我们将增加与培训师的伙伴关系， 承包商，小经营者，和其他服务不足的群体和MSHA国家赠款计划。我们将 与学术界和NIOSH的调查人员一起确定行业需求，部署新的和现有的培训 材料，促进协同研究议程，并评估成果。我们将加强技术转让 通过简化向行业合作伙伴部署新的计算机和基于应用程序的材料以用于培训， 和持续发展。我们将通过会议、研讨会、 还有一个在线论坛我们将通过指导和基于云的数据收集来促进评估， 分析平台。2)加强卫生培训。通过在我们的培训材料中增加新的健康模块， NIOSH国家职业研究议程（诺拉）跨部门的主题领域将得到解决，包括 慢性病、肌肉骨骼健康、听力损失预防、呼吸系统健康和热疲劳。我们还将 纳入整体员工健康主题，如心理健康、药物滥用和疲劳。3)发展，延伸， 并整合一系列培训资源。由我们的项目NIOSH开发的成功培训产品， 和LL合作伙伴将进行升级，以纳入新的内容、功能和互操作性。我们将开发 资源解决所有级别的教练能力，从容易集成的桌面游戏，以计算机为基础的 合成学习环境（SLEs）。我们将提高培训和评估技术的可及性， 特别是对于服务于较小操作者和在缺乏复杂计算机硬件的工作场所的培训者， 使用基于应用程序的手机游戏和流媒体服务。中期成果将包括：1）改善H&S 2）通过积极学习增强工人的能力; 3）增加有效培训计划的共享; （4）合格的矿工、培训师、监督员和健康与安全人员的数量增加。最终结果 该计划将包括H&S文化的变化和减少采矿伤害，疾病和死亡。