There's a fire in a mine a mile below the earth's surface, it's filling with smoke, visibility is zero and three people are missing. Thankfully, a group of Queen's University students now know what to do. A new course on mine safety, offered on campus for the first time at the end of April, attracted mining engineering graduate students to such an extent that they stayed a week after term just to complete the valuable course. "Some schools offer downloadable safety courses that you work on from your computer," said James Archibald, professor of mining engineering at Queen's, "but this kind of hands-on, field training simply cannot be duplicated on a screen. It is an absolute necessity for these students."
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