FOREMAN EXAMINATION SYLLABUS

FOREMAN EXAMINATION

SYLLABUS 

(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 Metalliferous Mines Regulations, 1961, relating to opencast Metal mine working; 
• Explosives and Blasting; 
• 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 Foreman is responsible. 
• Writing of reports required to be made by Foreman 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; 
• First Aid. 
• Sanitation and health; 
• Miner’s diseases, their symptoms and preventions.
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Accident investigation – why and how?

(b) Methods of Working. 

• Nature of occurrence of ore deposits; 
• 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; 
• shovel and dumpers; 
• surface miner; 
• benching; 
• maintenance of haul roads; 
• methods of reclamation; 
• dump stability and dump construction and management;
• Safe handling and use of explosives; 
• simultaneous short firing; 
• Safety precautions. 
• Inspection of work place, transport and haul roads and their maintenance.,
• 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

Mining Books & Notes 

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