Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Interactive Training - Material Handling Safety - Instructions

U.S. DOL, MSHA, National Mine Health and Safety Academy

	*How To Use This Course*
		Learning is straightforward and easy when taking this course. All you need to know to get started are the following simple steps.

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Course Structure

This course is divided into chapters listed on the left sidebar. This self-paced tutorial is designed to be studied in a linear fashion, but at any time you can jump to another chapter. At the beginning of each chapter is a summary of what you will learn in the chapter and a list of the chapter subjects. You can click a subject title to jump directly to that subject page.

On the subject pages, you will find icons that lead you to additional information.

	Link to resources on the Internet related to the subject
	Link to questions designed to provide you with a better understanding of the information you just learned.
	Link to a test page where you can measure your understanding of the material

Services Bar
The course has a services bar that contains the following features. To access any of these features, simply click on the word.

Home	Displays the course introduction page
Course Map	Displays a hypertext list (Table of Contents) of all subject pages
Contacts	Displays a list of additional sources of information

Side Bar
The course has a side bar with a list of links to the chapters in the course. You can click on these links to get to the first page of the specific chapter. The sidebar has the following buttons which are used for bookmarking:

Save	Stores the center-section page you are currently viewing so that you can return to it at some future time. This bookmark is remembered even if you restart your computer.
Go To	Once you have used the Save button, you can reload the bookmarked page by pressing this button.

Moving About
Any time you see text that is underlined and in color, you can click it and jump directly to another page of information. This is known as hypertext. You can also click certain graphics, known as hyperlinks or hot links to access other resources. How do you know which images are links? Watch the cursor. When you move it over hypertext or a hyperlinked graphic, the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand.

To continue to the next page, click the Next button
To return to the previous page, click the Back button.
You can also use your browser's Back button to return to the previous page.

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