The objective of this course is to provide students the forty (40) hour Mine Safety and Health Administration's required safety training for new underground miners. The course will be taught in accordance with the MSHA approved training plan for the University of Arizona's San Xavier underground mine. This course includes training blocks in the statutory rights of miners and their representatives, self-rescuer and respiratory devices, entering and leaving the mine including sign-in/sign-out and tag-in/tag-out procedures, transportation, communications, mine maps, escape ways, emergency evacuation, barricading, roof and ground control, ventilation plans, hazard recognition, electrical hazards, mine gases, health and industrial hygiene issues, first aid and other required subjects.