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.

项目概要/摘要 在我们之前的矿工安全与健康培训计划 - 美国西部 (U60) 拨款中，我们开发了 学习实验室 (LL) 计划，这是一项涉及三所大学的行业学术合作项目 以及代表西部地区 20,000 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、 行业各部门的主管以及健康与安全 (H&S) 专业人员。参与运营商 LLs 计划中的 H&S 结果显示出显着的改善，包括减少 平均伤害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法学硕士项目：1）通过以下方式提供新的培训和研究途径： 协作学习实验室。我们的法学硕士项目提供了强大的合作机制 研究人员、安全专业人员和行业培训师。该计划将得到扩展以满足所有核心要素 NIOSH 的研究到实践 (R2P) 计划。具体来说，我们将加强与服务培训师的合作伙伴关系 承包商、小型运营商和其他服务不足的群体以及 MSHA 州拨款计划。我们将工作 与学术界和 NIOSH 的研究人员合作，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结果。我们将加强技术转移 通过简化向行业合作伙伴用于培训的新计算机和基于应用程序的材料的部署 并持续发展。我们将通过会议、研讨会、 和一个在线论坛。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）加强健康培训。通过在我们的培训材料中添加新的健康模块，许多 NIOSH 国家职业研究议程 (NORA) 跨部门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、呼吸系统健康和热应变。我们还将 纳入员工全面健康主题，例如心理健康、药物滥用和疲劳。 3）开发、扩展、 并整合一系列培训资源。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 满足各个级别培训师能力的资源，从易于集成的桌面游戏到基于计算机的 综合学习环境（SLE）。我们将提高培训和评估技术的可及性， 特别是对于为小型操作员和缺乏复杂计算机硬件的工作场所提供服务的培训师， 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) 改善健康与安全 做法； 2）通过主动学习赋予工人权力； 3）增加有效培训计划的共享； 4) 增加有能力的矿工、培训师、主管和健康与安全人员的数量。最终结果 该计划的主要内容将包括 H&S 文化变革以及采矿伤害、疾病和死亡的减少。