NIOSH offering guide to two-way radio use in mine emergencies
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is making available an Instructor's Guide as part of a program to train miners in the use of two-way radio communication in the mines. The training tool provides detailed information and scripts for use by instructors when conducting training for miners on every day and emergency radio communication in mining.
The training program was created by a NIOSH multidisciplinary team and is intended to improve communication in the mines and to train miners to effectively use radios as part of a communications system. NIOSH says the instructor's guide is intended for use in a group training setting or for individual trainees, and should be used in conjunction with the PowerPoint presentation, "Radio 101: every day and emergency radio use" (CD-ROM) and the Radio 101: Student Handbook (publication).