矿山灾害学是一门综合性强并需不断扩充的矿山安全减灾科学。它与以往单一矿山灾害防治理论研究相比，具有综合性、预测性和经济性三大特征；它的安全减灾原理包含了安全哲学、安全经济学等八大原理；它的研究模型体现了宏观与微观相统一的原则。因此，矿山灾害学的研究，应以科学的系统论思想为指导，采用逻辑与历史相统一法，既要从微观上研究矿山灾害中单一灾种事故的防治技术和方法，又要在宏观上从不同学科、不同层次、不同的方位切入，对矿山灾害进行系统的研究；与此同时，还必须大力开展多层次、多领域、多方位的国际协作。

Mine disaster science is a systematic science for mine safety and disaster reduction. It is,compared with the previous unitary prevention and treatment of mine disaster, characterized by the comprehensiveness, prediction and economic nature. It involves 8 aspects of safety and disaster reduction,such as safety philosophy , safety economics ,etc. The research pattern embodies the principle of unity between the macroscopic and the microscopic. The research should be under the guidance of the system-theory. While exploring the preventing and treatment technology and method for the individual case of mine disaster,the research should be pitched into with multi discipline,at different levels and from different directions.