A project was designed to produce a broad description of current mining training programs and to evaluate their effectiveness with respect to reducing mine injuries. The research strategy was built on the ranking of mines according to the effectiveness of their training with an effective training effort being defined as that training which is associated with concurrent or subsequent low or reduced injury or severity rates. Aggregate training and injuries data were used to evaluate the overall training effort at 300 mines as well as specific efforts in twelve categories of training course objectives. (Data was gathered from articles in training and mining publications, telephone and mail contacts, and onsite visits to over 40 mining companies.) From such evaluations, recommendations were derived with particular emphasis being placed on identifying program characteristics that tend to be associated with effective training. Recommendations were also formulated with reference to role changes in industry and government interaction with respect to training programs, new or additional training programs, changes in the types of course materials and training methodologies, and recommendations concerning new areas of investigation. This document, the first of a two-volume report, is a summary consisting of narrative descriptions of several training programs found in the survey of the mining industry, the major results of an analysis of relationships between various measures of training and injuries, and the main conclusions and recommendations. (HD)