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Mining Publication: Knowledge Management and Transfer for Mine Emergency Response

Original creation date: September 2006

Image of publication Knowledge Management and Transfer for Mine Emergency Response

This paper discusses the fact that US coal mining organizations are losing the knowledge they need in order to be able to respond to emergencies. The authors note that knowledge management provides a useful perspective from which to view the problem, but that the debate about what constitutes knowledge should be broadened to include a debate about what constitutes management. It is argued here that knowledge is actually shared knowing distributed across group members; that such knowledge can be managed by cultivating it; and that narrative is the medium through which this may be done. The paper then examines NIOSH research that has attempted to use such an alternative knowledge management approach to help potential mine emergency responders better deal with the predicaments they are likely to encounter on-site.

Authors: C Vaught, LG Mallett, MJ Brnich, DC Reinke, KM Kowalski-Trakofler, HP Cole

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - September 2006

NIOSHTIC2 Number: 20031088

IJEM 2006 Sep; 3(2/3):178-191


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