Mine Safety and Rescue Engineering: Lectures and Tutorials

The issues of labour protection in the mines are taken very seriously because working conditions here are one of the hardest and most dangerous. This manual dwells on the important issues of labour protection and safety in the mines with focus on minimizing the injuries and losses of working hours and the material damages which could result from the inadequacy of the mitigation measures in place. On the issues of mine safety it dwells on the characteristics and causes of traumas and the methods of their analysis investigation and generation of mitigations as well as on the creation of normal sanitary and hygienic conditions of working environments in the mines. On the issues of mine rescue it dwells on the accidents which could happen in the mines and on the development and deployment of rescue plans for preparedness against them in the futures of the mines.