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According To Mines Rules, 1955 Safety Committee

The document outlines the rules regarding safety committees and workmen's inspectors in mines according to the Mines Rules, 1955. It states that mines employing over 100 people must form a safety committee consisting of managers, officials, competent persons, and workmen to discuss safety issues and make recommendations. It also requires mines employing over 500 people to designate workmen's inspectors from among qualified employees to inspect mining operations, electrical installations, and mechanical equipment on behalf of workers. The duties of workmen's inspectors include inspecting areas of the mine and reporting any urgent dangers as well as recording inspection reports. Mine managers must respond to inspection reports within 15 days.

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According To Mines Rules, 1955 Safety Committee

The document outlines the rules regarding safety committees and workmen's inspectors in mines according to the Mines Rules, 1955. It states that mines employing over 100 people must form a safety committee consisting of managers, officials, competent persons, and workmen to discuss safety issues and make recommendations. It also requires mines employing over 500 people to designate workmen's inspectors from among qualified employees to inspect mining operations, electrical installations, and mechanical equipment on behalf of workers. The duties of workmen's inspectors include inspecting areas of the mine and reporting any urgent dangers as well as recording inspection reports. Mine managers must respond to inspection reports within 15 days.

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According to Mines Rules, 1955

Safety Committee –
For every mine wherein more than 100 persons are ordinarily employed, the owner,
agent or manager shall constitute a safety committee for promoting safety in the mine:
Provided that the Chief Inspector or an Inspector may by a general or special order in
writing require the owner, agent or manager of any group of specified mines or of all
mines in a specified area to constitute a group safety committee in such manner and
subject to such conditions as he may specify in the order.

Composition of Safety Committee


The safety committee shall consist of -
(a) The manager who shall be the Chairman;
(b) Five officials or competent persons of the mine nominated by the Chairman;
(c) Five workmen nominated by the workmen of the mine
(d) Workmen’s Inspector where so designated; and
(e) The Safety Officer, or where there is no Safety Officer, senior most mine
official next to the manager, who shall as Secretary to the Committee;
Provided that any other official, competent person or workperson may be co-opted by
the Chairman as a member of the committee on any day or days of the meeting. If
considered necessary.

Functions of Safety Committee –


The functions the committee shall be-
(1) To discuss remedial measures against the unsafe conditions and practices in
the mine as pointed out in the reports of workmen’s inspector or otherwise brought to
the notice of the committee and make appropriate recommendations;
(2) To consider, before commencement of operations in any new district of the mine or
commissioning of new electrical or mechanical installation or introduction of new
mining technique the proposed safety and health measures including related codes of
practice and to make appropriate recommendations;
(3) To discuss the report of inquiry into accident and make appropriate
recommendations;
(4) To formulate and implement appropriate safety campaign based on analysis of
accidents;
(5) To meet at least once in 30 days to consider the matter placed before it and any
other matter that may be raised by the members and make such recommendations as it
may deem fit; and
(6) To serve as a forum for communication on safety and occupational health matters.
Implementation of recommendations of the safety committee
The owner, agent or manager shall, within a period of 15 days from the date of receipt
of the recommendations of the safety committee, shall indicate to the Secretary to the
safety committee, the action taken to implementation the recommendations.

Workmen’s Inspector –
(1)
(a) For every mines wherein 500 or more persons are ordinarily employed, the
owner, agent or manager shall designate three suitably qualified employees of
the mine in consultation with the registered trade union in the mine and where
there are more than one registered trade union the union recognized as per
procedure in practice or the most representative union as per the membership
records available at that point of time and if there are no registered trade unions,
in consultation with the elected representative of the workmen, as technical
experts to carry out inspection of the mine on behalf of the workers employed
therein, one each for mining operations, electrical installations and mechanical
installations. When the number of persons employed in a mine exceeds 1500,
the workmen’s inspector shall be assisted by one additional workmen’s
inspector in mining discipline for every additional 1000 persons or part thereof.
(b) In every mine, the owner, agent or manager shall constitute, in the manner
laid down in clause (a), a panel of workmen’s inspector who may serve as
substitute during absence of regular workmen’s inspector.
(c) In the panel there shall be at least one workmen’s inspector each for mining,
electrical and mechanical installation and operations.
(2) No person shall act as a workmen’s inspector of a mine unless -
(a) He possesses on Overman’s or Foreman’s Certificate granted under the Act:
Provided that -
(i) In relation to electrical machinery installed in mines, a person holding a
valid
Electrical Supervisor’s Certificate of Competency covering mining
installations,
(1) Of rule 131 of the Electrical Rules, 1956 framed under the Indian
Electrical Act 1910 shall be so designated; and
(ii) In relation to other machinery and mechanical appliances installed in
mines a person appointed to secure the installation running and
maintenance in safe working order of machinery in the mine, being not
less in status than that of an
Overman, Mine Foreman or Electrical Supervisor shall be so designated.
(b) He has at least five years of experience in mines including at least two years
in workings of the mines for which he is nominated; and
(c) He has undergone an orientation training course for workmen’s inspector
consisting of not less than thirty lectures and demonstrations, of not less than two
hours’ duration each, in accordance with the syllabus specified by and at a centre
approved by the Chief Inspector by a general or special order.
(3) The workmen’s inspector shall perform the duties mentioned for two days in every
week; on remaining days of the week, he shall perform his normal duties unless called
upon to perform the duties mentioned
(4)
(a) The owner, agent or manager shall afford the workmen’s inspector all
reasonable facilities for making any entry, inspection, measurement, examination
or inquiry in connection with his duties.
(b) An official of the mine shall accompany the workmen’s inspector during his
inspection.
(c) The workmen’s inspector may carry out his inspection at any time.
(5) When there occurs an accident or dangerous occurrence in or about a mine the
owner, agent or manager shall forthwith inform the concerned workmen’s inspector
about the accident or the occurrence.
(6) The workmen’s inspector shall not exercise his powers to impede or obstruct the
working of the mine.
(7) A workmen’s inspector nominated under sub-rule (1) shall, unless he resigns from
his office, hold office for a period of three years from the date of his nomination and
shall be eligible for one re-nomination.
(8) No owner, agent or manager shall take any action against a workmen’s inspector for
any of his actions in the discharge of his duties and functions laid down in these rules.

Duties of workmen’s Inspector –


(1) The duties of the workmen’s inspector of workers.
(a) To inspect all shafts, inclines, roads, workplaces and the equipment there at
including the equipment for conveyance and transport of workers.
(b) In case of any urgent and immediate danger that come to his notice -
i) To inform the manager and the inspector about the same; and
ii) To suggest remedial measures necessary to avoid the danger:
To accompany the Inspector in the course of complete inspection of the mine
and also during such other inspections as may be considered necessary by the
inspector.
(2) The workmen’s inspector shall record a full report of the matters ascertained as a
result of this inspection in an interleaved paged and bound register kept for the purpose
at the mine in Form U. The workmen’s inspector making the entry in the register
aforesaid shall duly sign such entries with care and take a copy of the entries for his
record.
Action on the report of workmen’s inspector -
(1) The owner, agent or manager of the mine shall enter in the register, within a period
of 15 days from the date of entry in the register, remarks thereon showing the remedial
measures taken and the date on which such action was taken.
(2) In case of any difference of opinion between the workmen’s inspector and the
owner, agent or manager, a copy of the report with remarks thereon regarding such
difference of opinion shall be sent by the owner, agent or manager to the Chief
Inspector or an inspector for decision.

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