PROJECT ABSTRACTObjective: To improve mining safety and health training in the western United States in order to reduce mininginjuries illnesses and fatalities. Background: Despite continued improvements over time mining injuries andfatalities continue to occur in the mining industry and reducing occupational illnesses remains challenging.Building on our past NIOSH miner training (U60) grants we will expand our collaborative training programs withindustry partners to offer competency-based health and safety training for miners trainers supervisors andhealth and safety personnel. Specific Aims: 1) Establish collaborative evidence-based learning laboratories; 2)Improve health training; and 3) Develop new technologically driven training products. Study Design: We willexpand our collaborative efforts with training consultants and company and labor-based training programs todevelop learning laboratories incorporating our existing training resources and additional training products fromNIOSH other academic programs and industry. We will also introduce and evaluate a promising new industrialathlete warm-up program shared by one of our industry partners which in an initial pilot study has greatly reducedworkplace injuries. A mentorship program will be provided for learning laboratory leaders along with a newevaluation infrastructure which includes a heterogeneous database capable of aggregating and analyzing datafrom a variety of sources and formats (including quantitative qualitative and multi-modal). Traumatic injuryprevention will continue to be a part of all levels of training (miner trainer supervisors and health and safetypersonnel) and other NIOSH NORA cross-sector topics including musculoskeletal health hearing lossprevention respiratory health heat-related illnesses and fatigue will be addressed through addition of healthmodules in existing and new training products. Building upon our past successes with experiential learning andhighly engaging serious games we will extend our suite of existing training products with new content focusingon NORA cross-sector topics and hazard mitigation. New modules will be developed that include an expansionpack for our Very Good Day hazard recognition card game and a new story-based scenario for the syntheticlearning environment (SLE) Harry's Hazardous Day. Furthermore we will create hybrid games that serve as abridge between traditional tabletop activities and full-scale SLEs using readily available mobile devices such assmartphones and tablets augmented by personalized digital content. Digital content will feature challengesrewards and scaffolding specific to each learner. Relevance to public health: The proposed program will serveto directly promote Research to Practice (r2p) with our industry partners. Intermediate outcomes will include: 1)improved safety and health practices; 2) workers empowered through active learning to be active participants inimproving workplace safety and health; and 3) increased sharing of effective training programs. The endoutcomes of the program will include a culture shift empowered by leadership and cohesive learning laboratoryteams to reduce mining injuries illnesses and fatalities.