Escape and Evacuation: A Miners’ Education and Training Toolbox
To help fill the demand for fresh training materials useful to both miners and supervisors, this program provided talking points for 20 different “tool box talks”, as well as a video components: a user’s guide and two emergency scenarios.
Topics focus on evacuation decisions and steps for safe exit of mines.
Click on the Instructor’s Guide to download the document. Instructor’s Guide: This training program is meant to supplement and support the training required under federal and state laws, the provisions of the MINER act of 2006, and the standards in Title 30 CFR, and related policies and guidelines issued by MSHA. Escape and Evacuation: a Miners’ Education and Training (E&T) Tool Box includes two full length online videos, a tool box talk series, and two emergency scenarios. The purpose of the handbook is to provide some suggestions regarding the planning and design of a mine emergency preparedness training program that uses the videos and the materials in the handbook. |
Click on the video title and the YouTube clip will open up in a new window. Mine Emergency: Filmed in a working underground mine, instructor Joe DeSalvo provides real, practical advise for escaping an underground coal mine emergency. Actual miners demonstrate many of the principles described. Dr. Mark Radomsky and Dr. Larry Grayson review and discuss the miners filmed simulating a mine evacuation. They discuss the importance of proper and accurate communication, leadership and decision-making, the need to know the mine evacuation procedures, the importance of realistic training. Grayson details the proper steps necessary for miners to safely evacuate a mine in an emergency. Mine Emergency: Joe DeSalvo narrates a Penn State produced video, filmed in an actual underground mine. DeSalvo provides real, practical advise for escaping an underground coal mine emergency. Actual miners demonstrate many of the principles described. Also in this clip, Joe Flick interviews John Unger, a survivor of a mine emergency in which he was trapped for three days by flooding water. |