NIOSH Office of Mine Safety and Health Research Training Exercise


How to Operate a Refuge Chamber: a Quick Start Guide

October 2010

See also: NIOSH mining products
Type: Safety Talk
Audience: Underground miners at all skill levels. This training product can be integrated into required new miner training courses, annual refresher courses, or any other mine site training.
Duration: 30 minutes

How to Operate a Refuge Chamber cover pageThis training tool is used to teach miners how to operate refuge chambers based on the Quick Start Guides. It is intended to be used as a template and guide for mine instructors to use in creating their own customized presentations that reflect the refuge alternatives being used at their mines.

Materials needed:
Instructor Copy (1 copy) - Emergency Escape and Refuge Alternatives Instructor Guide and Lesson Plan
PowerPoint® slides (1 copy) - save this .zip file archive to your PC and decompress to extract the slide presentation
Other Computer equipped with Microsoft PowerPoint® 2007 presentation software (or other software capable of reading and editing slides in PowerPoint 2007 format), LCD projector, and a large screen

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Page last updated: March 3, 2011
Page last reviewed: January 20, 2011
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Division