Student mine rescue training in Sudbury

摘要

Sponsored by M.A.S.H.A. (The Mines and Aggregates Safety and Health Association of Ontario), 12 mining engineering students from Laurentian University School of Engineering and the University of Toronto Lassonde Institute combined during their "study week" to participate in the annual Ontario Mine Rescue student training course. Students taking this course receive full certification at the basic level of mine rescue. It involves several hours of theory about mine rescue procedures, and safe practice in a mine emergency- especially fire. Coupled with this, they must become fully conversant and expert in servicing and maintaining the Drager BG4 oxygen breathing apparatus. Once fully conversant with the apparatus, and armed with the knowledge of poisonous and noxious gases as well as rescue procedures, the students are subjected to the very rigorous test of a mock rescue at a mine. They have to locate and rescue a "casualty" trapped in dense smoke, deep in a mine.