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DGMS OVERMAN RESTRICTED EXAM SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS FOR EXAMINATION FOR OVERMAN’S

CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY RESTRICTED TO MINES HAVING

OPENCAST WORKING ONLY

(Under Coal Mines Regulation, 2017)

(a) General Safety and Legislation

Duties and responsibilities of workmen, competent persons and officials (excluding managers, assistant managers);

discipline amongst workers and control of staff.

Provisions of the Coal Mines Regulations, 2017, relating to opencast Coal mine working; explosives and shotfiring;

loading, transportation and dumping; precautions against danger from fire, dust, gas and water and of other provisions

and Rules, enforcement of and compliance of provisions under the regulations to which overman is responsible.

Writing of reports required to be made by overman under the regulations.

Hazard Identification, risk assessment and risk management, safety management plan

Dangerous occurrences in mines and dealing with the same; accidents, their causes and preventions; accident reports;

not disturbing the place of accident.

First Aid.

Sanitation and health; miners’ diseases, their symptoms and preventions.

Emergency preparedness and response

Accident investigation – why and how?

(b) Methods of Working.

Nature of occurrence of coal seams; geological disturbances and their effects on working conditions; dangers and

precautionary measures while approaching geological disturbances areas.

The purpose and utility of boreholes in mines.

Opencast methods of mining; mechanized and manual methods; deep hole drilling and blasting; blast exclusion zones,

shovel and dumpers; dragline; bucket wheel excavators; surface miner; benching; maintenance of haul roads;

precautions while extracting developed pillars by opencast method and other safety precautions; methods of

reclamation; dump stability and dump construction and management; high wall mining.

Safe handling and use of explosives; simultaneous short firing; blasting in fire areas in opencast mines; safety

precautions.

Suppression and treatment of mine dust.

Sources of danger from surface water; precaution to prevent inundation and irruption of water; water dams, water

danger plans.

Gates and fencing, different kind of fences.

Inspection of opencast workings

Reading of statutory plans.

(c) Elements of Mining Machinery.

Safety aspects and safe use of different kinds of machinery used in opencast mines e.g. blast hole drills, rippers;