Mine manager

The father of high pressure steam power was born at the village of Tllogan in Cornwall, England, on April 13, 1771, the only boy after five older sisters. His father, also Richard, was a mine captain, as mine managers were called. In 1760 Richard, Sr., had married Anne Teague of Redruth. Her family included several more mine captains. 

This work was supported by a contract from the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada. The co-operation of mine management and personnel is gratefully acknowledged. 

Mercury in the Combustion of Coal, U.S. Dept, of the Interior, Bureau of Mines Managing Coal Wastes and Pollution Program, Technical Progress Report, 54, May 1972. 

Han Ning-Bo, Zhang Ju. Enlightenment on Advanced American Coal Mine Management Experience [J], Journal of Jilin Labor Protection, 2011(5) 90-92. 

Casualties of the secondary accidents include four kinds of people, namely coal mine managers, non-professional rescue workers (coal miners), mine rescue team and the vicinal masses (Fig. 3). 

The death toll of non-professional rescue workers (coal miners) account for the most part which is followed by the death toll of coal mine managers which account for 65.91% and 18.18% of the total deaths respectively and 84% together. The death toll of the mine rescue team members account for 9.09% (Table 2). The casualties of vicinal masses are less which cannot be ignored either. 

Illegal rescue of coal mine managers First point... 

Blind rescue is the main cause of the secondary accidents as the coal mine managers are anxious to save the people and the mine. Due to the lower probability of a serious accident in coal mines, the vast majority of coal mine managers face such a serious disaster for the first time when it happens while they must act as the leaders to make decisions and direct disaster relief the very first time. Because of lacking of daily training of emergency rescue techniques, tactics and skills, they are easily confounded and organize res-... 

The casualties of non-professional rescue workers (coal miners) accounted for more than fifty percent of the total casualties of the secondary accidents (Table 2). The coal miners lacked of awareness of self-protection and had no knowledge of basic methods to handle disasters and rescue, so they obeyed the emergency rescue command of the coal mine managers blindly. Consequently thirty-three people were dead and twenty-five were hurt which together accounted for sixty-seven percent of all the casualties of them in secondary accidents. Three accidents were caused by coal miners who were desperate to save lives without identifying the reasons and basic protection measures. In addition, two accidents were caused by inappropriate measures during the rescue process which resulted in roof caving. 

To strengthen emergency rescue training of coal mine managers and coal miners... 

Casualties caused by blind rescue of coal mine managers account for 52.7% of the total number of casualties in the secondary accidents. Not only... 

I was offered the opportunity to address the mine management during my visit, and a suitable seminar was arranged. The company s managing director also attended the seminar. After a short presentation and much discussion, the mine accepted the radical principles of the Five-Star Safety System, and for the first time in almost 70 years embarked on a risk-based, management-led, audit-based safety system. 

The Hoist Reporter uses state-of-the-art database and web technologies to provide mine management with up-to-the-second hoist status and production reports on their desktop or portable devices using stcuidcud web browsers. 

The main Acts laying down the general safety duties of mines and quarries personnel (i.e. owners, managers, undermanagers, surveyors and officials) are the Mines and Quarries Act 1954, the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 and the Mines Management Act 1971 (the latter Act in particular and some sections of the 1954 Act will be revoked if the draft Management and Administration of Health and Safety in Mines Regulations are accepted). 

One strategy is to assume that for each accident one or other of the factors discussed will predominate and then to identify the proportion of injuries attributable to each. Those who take this approach normally come to the view that in the overwhelming majority of cases it is the worker who is primarily responsible for the injury. Thus one observer has claimed that 85 per cent of accidents are due to lack of training and education, poor work habits or lack of motivation (see McAteer 1981, p. 938). The remainder are presumably due to management failures, unsafe conditions and the like. And an Australian mine manager once reported to a mining seminar that at his mine 3 per cent of accidents were due to unsafe conditions while 97 per cent were due to unsafe acts on the part of miners. He concluded that effort must be focussed on changing men s minds (AIMM 1975, p. 83). 

The principal argument so far is that, if Eastern Colliery is any guide, compensation costs do relatively little to focus management s attention on safety (as opposed to claims management). What, if anything, does focus the mind of a coal mine manager on safety ... 

The importance of the inspectorate in drawing a mine manager s attention to safety is most apparent in situations where the mine has not in fact suffered a fatality or dangerous occurrence. Consider the problem of outbursts, one of the most serious safety issues in... 

In the case of the coal industry, many coal mines have a safety officer who reports to the mine manager but no higher. Companies which own several mines may not have an OHS manager at head office, with the result that there is no one at this point in the organisation with a special interest in OHS. There may be special circumstances in the coal industry which justify this structure, but in principle it is not in the best interests of OHS. 

This book Environmental and Resource Geochemistry of Earth System should be in the libraries of universities offering courses in mining engineering and/or mining geology and should be read by mine managers and directors and concerned politicians. 

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