Topical issues connected with necessity of improvement of mining hazards prevention

Many mine induced seismic events are monitored in Upper Silesian Coal Basin both in Czech and Polish parts. In some cases these seismic events are attendet by rock bursts. Many broadly-based researches are carried out by Czech and Polish science institutions to explain the rockburst genesis. For all that we consider rockburst as hardly predictable mining risks. The contribution focuses on rockburst control solution. The examples of the stress-strain monitoring methods used by both Polish and Czech researchers are described together with some useful rock burst prevention methods. The high level of knowledge of the determinative parameters of the rockbursts occurrence help to create effective rockburst model. Anyway the research collaboration in the area of rock burst study improve the degree of mining safety