Abstract: The current two causes of poor train quality of coal special operators were analyzed. It was indicated that the main cause of ineffective training of coal special operators was backwardness of training means. The defect of training and teaching software which was developed with traditional virtual reality technology was analyzed. The characteristics of virtual reality technology development platform based on three-dimensional geographic information system were introduced. The advantages of training software for special operators based on 3DGIS were analyzed. A new idea to improve the quality of safety training for coal special operators was provided by the virtual reality teaching means.