Decree No. 341 / 1992 Coll.

Order of the Czech Mining Authority on the Mining Rescue Service

Valid Effective from 01.07.1992
341
DECLARATION
Czech Mining Office
of 21 May 1992
on the Mining Rescue Service
According to § 7 paragraph 9 of the Act of the Czech National Council No. 61 / 1988 Coll., on Mining Activities, Explosives and State Mining Administration, as amended by the Act of the Czech National Council No. 542 / 1991 Coll.:

ČÁST PRVNÍ

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
§ 1
Scope
The decree covers natural and legal persons, (1) carrying out mining or mining activities (2) and having an obligation to provide mining rescue services (3) (hereinafter referred to as "organisations').
§ 2
Interpretation of terms
For the purposes of this decree, it shall be considered as:
(a) a mine operating unit which, as a general rule, constitutes a separate technical unit from the point of view of ventilation, irrespective of what it is called by the organisation; the concept of mine is equivalent to the concept of underground construction for organisations performing underground work in a mining way. In case of doubt, the Czech Mining Office will decide,
(b) a mine with simple conditions of a non-coal mine, a mine in exploration, construction, securing or disposal, and a mine in which special interventions are carried out in the crust of the earth. (4) In case of doubt, the Czech Mining Authority shall decide:
(c) the base of the premises defined for the entry into and rest of the mining paramedics, which also serves for the temporary storage of respiratory devices and other equipment of the mining paramedics between each intervention and which has links with the driver of the accident or dispatcher;
(d) the education of the relevant direction of successful completion of the school in which the technical fields required to carry out the mining or mining activities are taught, in the manner for which the mining rescue station is established.

ČÁST DRUHÁ

SECURITY, ORGANISATION AND TASKS
§ 3
Máňská zdražská služba
(1) The Mining Rescue Service consists of the Regional Mining Rescue Stations and the Racing Mining Rescue Stations and the Mining Rescue Corps.
(2) The organisation provides mining rescue services by setting up a racing mining rescue station and by setting up a local mining rescue station, unless otherwise specified.
(3) A separate component of the Mining Rescue Service is the Mining Rescue Corps of the State Mining Administration.
§ 4
Regional mining rescue station
(1) An organisation operating a workplace or carrying out the activities referred to in § 5 (1) shall be established as a joint station whose perimeter and seat shall be determined by the Czech Mining Authority.
(2) If the organisation does not participate in the establishment and operation of a common mining rescue station, 5) its mining rescue station must comply with the requirements laid down for a mining rescue station and must ensure that the tasks set by the mining rescue station are carried out.
§ 5
Racing mining rescue station
(1) An organisation shall establish a race mining rescue station
(a) on a deep mine, even if it is a mine with simple conditions,
(b) on a coal quarry on which old or abandoned mining works may be found, or underground mining works shall be set up or used, or an assembly liable to self-ignite,
(c) carrying out drilling and geophysical work where the presence of flammable or harmful gases, water under pressure or oil is expected to occur, or the extraction, treatment or underground storage of liquid minerals and gases in natural rock structures or underground areas;
(d) which conquers minerals by leaching;
(e) which carries out mining activities in the underground where accidents requiring the intervention of the mining rescue corps can be expected to occur. 6)
(2) A racing mining rescue station may be set up as common to several sites referred to in paragraph 1 on the basis of recommendations from the Regional Mining Rescue Station, with the agreement of the Regional Mining Authority.
(3) The establishment of a mining rescue station may be waived on the basis of the recommendations of the Regional Mining Rescue Station, with the approval of the Circular Mining Authority, provided that its function is performed by another racing mining rescue station or directly by the Regional Mining Rescue Station.
§ 6
Tasks of the Mining Rescue Service
(1) The mission of the Mining Rescue Service is to carry out work and rapid and effective interventions to:
(a) the rescue of human lives and property in serious operational accidents, including the provision of first aid in the underground;
(b) the fight against serious operational accidents, in particular the explosions of gases and coal dust, mine fires, rock and gas bursts, oil and gas eruptions, water, gas, mud and chickens, mine sinks and ventilation disturbances ("accidents");
(c) the removal of the consequences of accidents.
(2) In addition to the tasks referred to in paragraph 1, the Mining Rescue Service
(a) carry out other work in a non-breathable or harmful environment and other special and risky work, such as work in or under water;
(b) cooperate in emergency prevention and health and safety at work and operational safety, in particular by carrying out random inspections of workplaces and checks of means of accident control, training and training of workers and fulfilling the obligations arising from specific legislation. 7)
§ 7
Tasks of the Regional Mining Rescue Station
(1) The Regional Mining Rescue Station provides an emergency for mining rescue workers, including specialists and the necessary techniques, to the extent specified by the Staff Regulations, in order to be able to ensure that the tasks referred to in Section 6 are carried out within its scope. In addition:
(a) provide medical services for first aid to the extent specified in the Staff Regulations;
(b) it shall process the schedule of entries of mining rescue workers into the permanent emergency services associated with training and training;
(c) training and training of mining rescue workers and other workers of mining rescue stations;
d) carry out basic theoretical training and practical training for new mining rescue workers, or for other persons, according to the curriculum approved by the Czech Mining Authority;
(e) repair, control and test self-rescue, breathing and life-saving appliances and rescue equipment;
(f) provide specific tests and reports on self-rescue, breathing and life-saving appliances and rescue techniques;
(g) it assesses the operating rules of the mining mining rescue stations;
h) express its views on the projects of newly established or reconstructed mining rescue stations;
(i) manage methodically and check at least once every 12 months the operation of the mining mining rescue stations;
(j) control emergency prevention facilities;
(k) control emergency plans (8) in organisations and, at the request of the organisation, participate in the preparation and annual checks of emergency plans;
(l) monitor and exploit developments in the field of mining rescue.
(2) The tasks referred to in points (d) and (f) of paragraph 1 are provided by the Regional Mining Rescue Station by a contract at the Regional Mining Rescue Station, which is entrusted to it by the Czech Mining Authority.
(3) The Regional Mining Rescue Station shall report annually to the Czech Mining Office and to the Regional Mining Office responsible for its activities according to the headquarters of the Regional Mining Rescue Station in writing.
§ 8
Tasks of the racing mining rescue station
(1) In particular, the Racing Mining Rescue Centre provides urgent assistance in the rescue of human lives and property in accidents and, together with the Regional Mining Rescue Station, carries out the tasks set out in Section 6; to that end,
(a) provide an emergency for mining rescue workers and means to the extent specified in the Staff Regulations;
(b) train and train mining rescue workers;
(c) participate in the preparation and annual checks of emergency plans;
(d) control emergency prevention facilities;
(e) repair, control and test self-rescue, breathing and life-saving appliances and rescue equipment;
(f) immediately inform the local mining rescue station of any use of breathing apparatus.
(2) A racing mining rescue station shall report once a year in writing on the activities of the mining rescue station.

ČÁST TŘETÍ

EQUIPMENT AND LOCATION OF BAN SAFETY STANDS
§ 9
Responsible for equipping the mining rescue stations
The personnel, material and technical equipment of the mining rescue station is the responsibility of the organisations that set up the mining rescue station.
§ 10
Equipment of the minehouse
The facilities of the local mining rescue station shall be laid down in its Staff Regulations.
§ 11
Equipment of the mining rescue station
The racing mining rescue station shall be equipped with at least 12 working breathing and two living appliances ready for action. For a mine with a greater frequency of interventions, the number of instruments shall be increased accordingly, for a mine with simple ratios and, in the cases referred to in Article 5 (1) (c), (d) and (e), the number of instruments may be reduced to up to six working breathing appliances and one living apparatus; the number of breathing and reviving devices and the quantity and type of other rescue equipment, medical equipment and material shall be determined by the Staff Regulations of the racing mining rescue station.
§ 12
Breathing and reviving apparatus
(1) At least three replacement absorbers and three refilled cylinders shall be prepared for each working oxygen breathing apparatus. Three spare filled cylinders shall be prepared for each life-saving device and for each air-breathing apparatus. In order to fill the pressure cylinders for oxygen breathing apparatus, oxygen compressed by medical and air breathing apparatus shall be used with hygienic air or other hygienic physiological breathing mixture.
(2) Breathing and reviving appliances and their accessories must be maintained in standby condition. Instruments not usable for intervention shall be separately stowed so that there is no confusion with the standby.
(3) Breathing apparatus can only be used by trained persons under conditions specified by the Staff Regulations.
(4) Checks and tests on breathing and reviving apparatus and their accessories, control and testing instruments, and records thereof and the marking of cylinders shall be carried out in accordance with a specific Regulation.
(5) The results of the checks and tests must be recorded in the prescribed records.
§ 13
Location of mining rescue stations
(1) The project of the newly established or reconstructed mining rescue station requires the expression of the Czech Mining Authority, the project of the newly established or reconstructed mining rescue station requires the expression of the district mining office and the regional mining rescue station.
(2) Objects and equipment intended for mining rescue services cannot be used for purposes which would impede the performance of the mining rescue service.
(3) The Mining Rescue Station and the access routes to it must be marked significantly.

ČÁST ČTVRTÁ

BAN SAFEGUARDS
§ 14
Members of the Mining Rescue Corps
The members of the Mining Rescue Corps are the mining rescue workers and other selected workers of the Mining Rescue Station; may be provided that they meet the requirements laid down in this Order.
§ 15
Mining Rescue
(1) A worker may become a mining rescue worker who:
(a) is medical9) for work in the Mining Rescue Corps;
(b) has at least two years of professional experience in the field in which it will work in the Mining Rescue Corps;
c) has completed ten days of basic theoretical training and practical training at the Regional Mining Rescue Station appointed by the Czech Mining Authority;
d) successfully passed the examination of mining rescue before a commission appointed by the head of this mining rescue station;
e) took the oath of a mining rescue worker to the head of this mining rescue station in the presence of a representative of the State Mining Administration.
(2) Medical fitness must be confirmed by a medical assessment.
(3) A mining paramedic must undergo a medical examination at least once a year and after any illness or accident affecting his medical fitness.
(4) The mining paramedic must have theoretical training and practical exercises at least once a quarter in the range of one shift in the use of breathing and reviving apparatus, of which two practical exercises in the year in the use of breathing apparatus must take place in the pipe and two in the mine. A shot in the breathing apparatus in the mine replaces the drill in the mine. The mine exercises shall not be carried out in a non-breathable environment and shall respect the principles set out in the intervention order.
(5) The mining paramedic of the organisation referred to in § 5 (1) (c) performs practical exercises in the use of breathing apparatus by performing one exercise in a pipe, one in a training centre and two on a probe or on a deep well in a year. Intervention in the breathing apparatus replaces practical exercise at the training station, probe or deep-hole well. Exercise at the training centre, probe or deep-hole shall not be carried out in a non-breathable environment and shall respect the principles set out in the intervention order. The provisions of this paragraph shall also apply to mining rescue workers of the organisation referred to in Section 5 (1) (d), with the possibility that training at the training centre may be replaced by training at the site designated by the head of the regional mining rescue station.
(6) The Mining Rescue Officer may operate in the Mining Rescue Corps until the age of 45, above this age limit only with the permission of the head of the Regional Mining Rescue Station, issued on the basis of a medical assessment with regard to the function performed; This shall not apply to the head of the Regional Mining Rescue Station and its representative and members of the Mining Rescue Corps of the State Mining Administration.
(7) The practice referred to in paragraph 1 (c) and the basic theoretical training and practical training referred to in paragraph 1 (d) may be waived for graduate students of mining and industrial schools who have received basic medical training in teaching.
§ 16
The Mining Rescue Corps of the Regional Mining Rescue Station
(1) The members of the Mining Rescue Corps of the Regional Mining Rescue Station are:
(a) head of the Regional Mining Rescue Station and its representatives,
(b) the main mechanic of the mining rescue station and its representatives,
(c) technicians, mechanics, sergeant or specialists, where appropriate;
(d) doctors qualified by a mining paramedic,
(e) mining rescue workers,
(f) workers of the mining rescue station of other professions performing the tasks of the mining rescue service.
(2) The number of members of the Mining Rescue Corps is determined by its Staff Regulations.
(3) The head of a mining mining rescue station can only be a mining engineer who graduated from the high school in the field of deep-sea mining (hereinafter referred to as the "mining engineer"), has a racing dol10 certificate and at least four years of rescue practice, is a mining rescue worker and successfully passed the mining rescue exam before the commission of the Czech Mining Authority.
(4) A mining engineer with at least four years of professional, of which at least three years of rescue practice, or a worker with full secondary vocational training in the relevant direction and at least eight years of professional, of which at least four years of rescue practice, may be a representative of the head of a regional mining mining rescue station. He must be a mining paramedic and successfully pass the examination of mining rescue before the Czech Mining Authority.
(5) The head of the regional mining rescue station of the organisation referred to in § 5 (1) (c) and its representative may also be a graduate of a university with a deep-sea drilling field. The other conditions referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall also apply to those workers, except for the requirement for a racing mine certificate.
(6) The main mechanic of a regional mining rescue station may be a mechanical engineer with at least four years of professional, of which at least two years of rescue practice, or a worker with full secondary vocational training in the relevant direction and at least eight years of professional, of which at least four years of rescue practice. He must be a mining paramedic and successfully pass the examination of mining rescue before the Czech Mining Authority.
(7) Only a mining rescue worker with at least three years of rescue practice who has completed at least six weeks of emergency service at the Regional Mining Rescue Station may be a Sergeant and his representative.
(8) The head of the Regional Mining Rescue Station, its representatives and the main mechanic and its representatives must undergo special training at the Regional Mining Rescue Station designated by the Czech Mining Office for a duration of at least 20 days before the provision; the representatives of the main mechanic complete the special training successfully carried out by examination of the mining rescue at this mining rescue station.
(9) The head of the regional mining rescue station, his representative and chief mechanic can be established and the performance of this function relieved only with the prior approval of the Czech Mining Authority.
§ 17
Mining rescue corps of racing mining rescue station
(1) The members of the mining rescue corps are:
(a) the head of the racing mining rescue station and its representative,
(b) the leading mechanic of the racing mining rescue station and its representative, and possibly other mechanics;
(c) Sergeant,
(d) mining rescue workers,
(e) workers of the mining rescue station of other professions performing the tasks of the mining rescue service.
(2) The Mining Rescue Corps shall have at least 25 members of the Mining Rescue Station and shall be represented by experts of all essential professions which may occur in the course of rescue work. For a mine with a greater frequency of interventions, the number of mining rescue workers must be increased accordingly, for a mine with simple ratios and, in the cases referred to in § 5 (1) (c), (d) and (e), the number of mining rescue workers may be reduced accordingly; the number shall be determined by the Staff Regulations of the racing mining rescue station. If they are a common mining rescue station, the mining rescue workers of all these mines, quarries, or workplaces, must be included.
(3) A worker with a higher education in the relevant direction with at least three years of professional training, of which at least one year of rescue practice, or a worker with a full secondary vocational training in the relevant direction with a minimum of six years of professional training, of which at least two years of rescue practice, may be the head of a race mining rescue station and its representative. It must be a mining rescue officer and successfully pass the mining rescue exam before the District Mining Office committee.
(4) The head of the racing mining rescue station, its representative, the manager of the racing mining rescue station and its representative must have completed special training at the relevant regional mining rescue station for a period of no less than ten days before the provision to the office; the leading mechanic of the racing mining rescue station and its representative conclude the special training successfully carried out by the testing of the mining rescue station at this field mining rescue station.
(5) The head of the mining rescue station and its representative may be appointed and the performance of this function exempted only with the prior approval of the district mining office.
(6) The list of members of the Mining Rescue Centre, indicating the name, profession, residence, telephone numbers and function in the Mining Rescue Corps, must be posted at the Mining Rescue Station and at the dispatcher or at another location designated by the emergency plan. The amendments shall be included in the list without delay.
(7) Mining rescue workers must be apportioned accordingly into all working shifts. The inspection service or dispatcher shall be informed of the location of their workplace. In the exchange register of the stamp office, mining rescue workers must be recorded differently.
(8) The head of the mining rescue station and its representative shall know the emergency plans of all mines, quarries and other workplaces referred to in Section 5 (1) for which the mining rescue station is established.
§ 18
Mining Rescue Corps of the State Mining Administration
(1) The Mining Rescue Corps of the State Mining Administration shall consist of the Head, its Deputy and selected Mining Inspectors designated for the performance of the top supervision of the respiratory apparatus.
(2) The Czech Mining Authority provides:
(a) conditions for classification, performance of activities, including training and training of members of the Mining Rescue Corps;
(b) the number of members of the Mining Rescue Corps;
(c) the rights and obligations of the Head of the Mining Rescue Corps and its representative.
(3) Members of the Mining Rescue Corps of the State Mining Administration take the oath of the Mining Rescue Officer to the President of the Czech Mining Office.

ČÁST PÁTÁ

PERFORMANCE OF BAN SAFEGUARD SERVICES
§ 19
Staff Regulations of the Mining Rescue Stations
(1) The organisation of a mining rescue station, a closer definition of its tasks, staffing, duties and rights of individual personnel and equipment of a mining rescue station shall be determined by the Staff Regulations issued by the Head of the mining rescue station.
(2) The Annex to the Staff Regulations is the Emergency, Alert and Intervention Regulations.
(3) The Staff Regulations of the Regional Mining Rescue Station are approved by the Czech Mining Authority. The rules of service of the racing mining rescue station after verification by the relevant regional mining rescue station shall be approved by the district mining office.
§ 20
Emergency services
(1) The emergency services of the mining rescue workers and the number of workers of the mining rescue service on standby shall be determined by the emergency rules.
(2) There must be a permanent emergency service for mining rescue workers at the local mining station; in a racing mining rescue station only when required by a special regulation (11) or when ordered by the district mining office.
(3) The organisation is required to transmit a specified number of mining rescue workers to the permanent emergency service according to the schedule of the relevant mining rescue station. Any mining rescue worker must be seconded to this service at least once every two years if he does not perform a permanent emergency service at a regional or racing mining rescue station.
(4) The emergency service of mining rescue workers at the racing mining rescue station may also be ordered by the head of the organisation or by its authorised staff.
§ 21
Call of the Mining Rescue Corps
(1) The procedure for calling the Mining Rescue Corps shall be laid down in an alarm system.
(2) In the event of an alarm, the organisation must ensure that the Mining Rescue Corps is convened quickly. (12) On request of the organisation and its costs to the head of the mining rescue station, its representatives, the chief and the manager of the mining rescue station and their representatives, telephone connections to their apartment. The telephone connection may be replaced by another telecommunication device.
(3) Upon notification of the alarm, members of the Mining Rescue Corps shall be required to use all available means to arrive immediately at the designated location. From the moment of notification of the alarm, the further activity of the mining rescue worker is considered to be the performance of the work.
(4) The mining paramedic must report immediately upon arrival to his supervisor whether he fulfils the conditions for entry into intervention (medical examination according to § 15 (3) and satisfactory medical condition).
§ 22
Principle of rescue in the mine
(1) Rescue intervention is governed by the intervention order.
(2) The activities of the mining rescue workers in the intervention are managed by the head of the mining rescue corps. This function is carried out by the head of the mining mining mining mining mining station at which the intervention is carried out, until the arrival of the mining rescue workers of the mining rescue station. It shall then be taken over by the head of a mining rescue station or its representative or, where appropriate, by another member designated by the head of the mining rescue station or its representative in agreement with the head of the destruction of the accident.
(3) Immediately before commencing the intervention of the working breathing apparatus, the Bany rescue workers will check the working breathing apparatus; The complete equipment of the platoon shall be checked by the sergeant.
(4) Mining rescue workers intervene in platoons under the command of a sergeant. In saving people's lives, the sergeant has the right to decide to split the platoon, even in an unbreathable environment.
(5) At least five-member rescue workers enter the breathing apparatus, three-member platoon only on condition that the mining rescue workers' workplaces are easily accessible and a permanent connection with the backup platoon at the base is ensured.
(6) In the event of interference in a non-breathable environment, the reserve platoon shall be at least the same number of mining protectors as the platoon in intervention. The backup platoon shall be equipped and prepared so that the platoon can provide immediate assistance in the intervention. Under the conditions specified by the intervention order, the base platoon can perform the function of backup platoon even for two platoons in intervention.
(7) In exceptional circumstances, especially at high temperatures and high concentrations of pollutants, a physician qualified as a mining paramedic must be present at the base; further conditions shall be laid down in the Staff Regulations.
(8) The head of the Mining Rescue Corps may decide on a procedure other than those provided for in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 where there is a risk of human life or delay.
(9) In the process of mining works in an environment with a visibility of less than one metre, the bane rescue workers must be connected to each other by connecting ropes.
(10) For the journey to and from the workplace and for the work of the platoon in intervention, if the work is carried out in a working breathing apparatus, a maximum of 80% of the total oxygen, air or mixture available to the mining rescue worker may be counted. The decision to return the platoon will be made by the sergeant according to the pressure level found on the pressure gauge of the mining rescue machine, which has the smallest supply of oxygen, air or mixture in the cylinder. In the event of failure of the part of the apparatus which could affect its function as well as after replacement of the cylinder, the platoon must return immediately to the base.
(11) When carrying out the tasks referred to in Article 6 in a working breathing apparatus, a mining ambulance may be sent into intervention more than once in 24 hours, provided that:
(a) in the first two days of the accident, the sum of the periods of intervention in the working breathing apparatus must not exceed 6 hours per 24 hours. They must have at least a one-hour break between each intervention. In the event of a danger of delay, more frequent intervention may be ordered by the head of the Mining Rescue Corps,
(b) in the following days of the accident and in the event of planned non-emergency interventions, the sum of the periods of intervention in the working breathing apparatus shall not exceed 4 hours per 24 hours. A break of at least the same duration as the time of intervention in the working breathing apparatus shall be included among each intervention. A mining rescue worker may be continuously broadcast to such interventions for a maximum period of 30 days. It may be sent to further interventions in the working breathing apparatus only after the expiry of the same number of days for which it has been continuously broadcast; However, at that time it may carry out a permanent emergency service.
(12) Rescue patrols intended, for example, for air control in an uncontaminated area or for surveillance of access to the safety circuit shall not be considered as rescue intervention.
(13) Planned non-emergency interventions in an environment in which the composition of the air does not comply with the provisions of the special regulation, 13) must be notified in advance to the Regional Mining Authority. For intervention, the organisation shall draw up an order identifying the necessary measures. The order is confirmed by the head of the county mining rescue station. Other planned non-emergency interventions must be considered as work linked to increased risk. 14) Permanent surveillance shall be performed by the Sergeant.
(14) If the intervention involves members of the Mining Rescue Corps of the State Mining Administration or other persons, they shall:
(a) to intervene with a team of mining rescue workers, not including the number of mining rescue workers set for the platoon;
(b) comply with the principles defined by the intervention rules of the mining rescue station;
(c) comply with the instructions and orders of the members of the Mining Rescue Corps.

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CitationDecree of the Czech Mining Office No. 341 / 1992 Coll., on the Mining Rescue Service
Regulation Type-
Author-
CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation01.07.1992
Effective from01.07.1992
Effective until-
Status Valid
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