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To perform a successful workplace examination, mineworkers must be able to find and fix hazards at their workplace. NIOSH recently completed a laboratory study to identify differences in hazard recognition performance for mineworkers, safety professionals, and mining engineering students tasked with performing a simulated workplace examination in a virtual environment. The laboratory methodology and study results were used to develop a training product aimed at improving mineworker safety. The purpose of the current chapter is to describe the efforts that were taken to modify the laboratory workplace examination simulation into a portable software tool called EXAMiner, which can be used for data collection and training purposes in the field. This chapter provides an explanation of the literature and results from the NIOSH laboratory research studies used to inform and motivate development of EXAMiner. In addition, the software specifications are explained. |
