Mine Safety and Health Administration's Mine Rescue Contest Home Page
The following excerpt is from an article found in the Holmes Safety Association Bulletin for November 1992.
Mine rescue contests are designed to sharpen skills and test the knowledge of team members who would be called on to respond to a mine emergency. The contest requires team members to solve a hypothetical problem while being timed and observed by judges according to complex rules.
A new competition will be unveiled at the 2010 National Metal and Nonmetal Mine Rescue Contest in Reno, Nevada. The Technician Team Contest will combine the Apparatus Bench and Multi-gas Instrument Competitions into an overall mine rescue team preparation exercise. - See More
