Abstract: Based on our country’s environmental protection efforts to strengthen the impact on the coal industry, we used impulse response function and variance decomposition to explore the interaction between environmental regulation, coal industry employment, and coal mine safety.The following conclusions were drawn.Environmental regulation will inhibit the employment of the coal industry in the short term, and in the long run it will stimulate the employment of the coal industry; conversely, the increase in the previous period of employment will increase the intensity of government environmental regulations, and the subsequent period of upgrading will reduce the intensity of government environmental regulations.Environmental regulations help improve coal mine safety, but the improvement in coal mine safety conditions adversely affects the lack of environmental regulation.The improvement of the coal mine safety situation can stimulate the employment of the coal industry.Conversely, employment in the coal industry is also positively affecting coal mine safety.Environmental regulations are most affected by employment conditions in the coal industry; employment in the coal industry is most affected by coal mine safety; coal mine safety is most affected by employment in the coal industry.