SAFETY ORANIZATION

Directorate General of Mines Safety, DGMS

in short, is the Regulatory Agency under
the Ministry of labour and employment,
Government of India in matters pertaining
to occupational safety, health and welfare
of persons employed in mines (Coal,
Metalliferous and oil-mines)
• The organization has its headquarters at Dhanbad
(Jharkhand)
• headed by Director-General of Mines Safety.
• At the headquarter, the Director-General is assisted
by specialist staff-officers in mining, electrical and
mechanical, occupational health, law, survey,
statistics, administration and accounts disciplines.
• The headquarters has also a technical library and S&T
laboratories as a back-up support to the organization
 Vision of DGMS

• To attain risk and hazard free conditions of work

and welfare of persons employed in mines
• To identify and reduce risk of accidents and diseases
in and around the mine through:- Development of
suitable legislation, rules, regulations, standards
and guidelines
• Adequate measures to ensure compliance and
Awareness initiatives to inculcate safety and health
culture amongst work-persons and stakeholders.
• Operationsn and systems to be planned and
designed to eliminate reducing mininig
hazards.
• Efficient
 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;
 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 in accordance with the procedure
prescribed in clause (a) of sub-rule(1) of rule
29Q for nomination of Workmen’s Inspector;
• (d) Workmen’s Inspector where so designated;
and
• (e) the Safety Officer, or where there is no
Safety Officer, the senior most mine official
next to the manager, who shall act as
Secretary to the Committee;
 Functions of Safety Committee
• (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 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;
• 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
implement the recommendations
 Duties of safety officer.-
• (a) to visit surface and underground parts of the mine
with a view to meet the workers on the spot, to talk to
them on matters of safety and invite suggestions thereon;
• (b) to take charge of the newly recruited staff and show
them around the mine pointing out the safe and unsafe
acts during the course of their work in the mine;
• (c) to investigate all types of accidents and incidents in the
mine including minor accidents and analyse the same
with a view to pinpoint the nature and common causes of
accidents in the mine;
• (d) to maintain detailed statistics about mine
accidents and to analyse the same with a view to
pinpoint the nature and common causes of the
accidents in the mine;
• (e) to study and apprise the manager of all possible
sources of danger such as inundation, fire, failure of
slope, benches and dumps, dust and others;
• (f) to hold safety classes and give safety talks and
lectures to the members of the supervisory staff;
• (g) to organise safety weeks and other safety education
and propaganda programmes in mine;
• (h) to see that all concerned mine employees are fully
conversant with various standing orders (such as those
relating to stoppage of mine mechanical ventilators and to
the occurrence of a fire or other emergency in the mine),
codes of practices and support plan;
• (i) to provide assistance in the formulation of programme
for training at the mine level, including vocational training,
training in gas testing, and training in First Aid, etc
• (j) to report to the manager as a result of his visits to the
various parts of the mine, as to whether the provisions of
the Act, and the rules and regulations made there under
are being complied with in the mine;
• (k) to promote safe practices generally and to lend active
support to all measures intended for furthering the cause
of safety in the mine and follow up measures for
compliance to the recommendations of the Safety
Committee and Workman’s Inspectors; and
• (l) to assist the manager in any other matter relating to
safety in the mine.
• (2) The safety officer shall ensure that an appropriate
emergency plan as required under these regulations
is put in place and the requirements of the same are
implemented.
• (3) Except in an emergency, no duties other than
those specified above shall be assigned to the safety
officer.
• (4) The safety officer shall maintain in a bound paged
book a detailed record of the work performed by him
every day.