| Our country is now in the stage of accelerated development of industrialization, which is a prone period of safety accidents. At this stage, the safety situation of our country's production prominently shows that the overall performance is stable and tends to improve, but the situation is still grim and the total accident is still high. The current serious situation in some industrial areas has not yet been fundamentally reversed; especially the mine work safety situation is quite grim. Therefore, it is greatly significant to lucubrate China's mining and the development of safety technology change, sum up the generation and development of safety idea and safety concepts, and analyze the history evolution of safety concept, excavate the enlightenment of the ancient safety concept, promote the development of modern safety concept, and guide China's mining work and economic and social development.Safety is the most important and most basic needs of human, and is closely related to the survival of people. At the same time, safety is also the basic protection of people's life and health and the state's property. At present, safety has become a prerequisite for the production process and economic operation. In short, safety is not only the basic guarantee of the economic development and social stability, but also the important indicator of the progress and civilization of society.The safety concept is the total view and opinion to the role, status and value of safety. It is the rational understanding to safety issues and an important part of the world view. The right safety concept is the basic of safety epistemology and the guiding theory of safety methodology. Establishing a correct outlook on the safety has important strategic significance and guidance role to improve the safety production levels, protect employee's safety and health in production and operation activities, accelerate the development of modern industry, and even set up and perfect the socialist market economy.In this paper, the safety concept was placed in the macro-historical context. The formation and development of the safety concept as well as the current safety concept issues were researched based on changes in mining safety technology of our country.The reality is the foundation of theoretical research, and is also the starting point and purpose of theoretical research. So, firstly, the status and situation of mine safety production in our country were analyzed in this paper. It is indicates that people's sense and concept of safety is the primary factor of frequent accidents. The trend of frequent accidents and difficult to curb, is not only from technology and management level, but also from human's weak safety concepts and awareness.Mineral development is one of the oldest areas which human beings engaged in productive labor. China's ancient mining technology and the level of safety protection technology has been a leader in the world, on behalf of the overall safety level of the production technology of ancient China. So, the development process of mining safety technology in ancient China was comprehensively and systematically summed up in this paper, and based on this, the development process of ancient's understanding of safety was discussed.Safety concept advances with the development of safety. As human's safety knowledge deepens gradually, the safety concept also has gone through a long process of evolution. In this paper, the development process of safety and the evolution process of safety concept were discussed and the characteristic of each stage was analyzed. On this basis, the formation and development of safety concept is discussed, at the same time, the relationship of safety concept with the world view and philosophy was discussed from a philosophical perspective.With the development of society and the progress of time, the spatial and temporal scales that safety issues involved in expands gradually and the understanding about safety issues also changes greatly. Therefore, some new safety concepts that have characteristics of today's time are discussed in this paper. In accordance with the principle that theory guides practice, the practical significance and guidance function of safety concepts are carried on an applied research. Finally, the revelatory meaning of safety concepts to mine safety, as well as contemporary economic and social development is concretely discussed.Through the research, the author hopes reinforce and improve the system of safety science in theory, lay a solid theoretical foundation to mining safety work, and provide a good starting point for the follow-up study of safety historiography theory and build a theoretical platform. |