GAS TESTING EXAM SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS FOR EXAMINATION FOR GAS TESTING CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY

(Under Coal Mines Regulations, 2017)

1. Gases:

• Occurrence of gases in mines, 
• their properties and physiological effects; 
• detection and measurement 

2. Use of gas detectors such as 

• methanometers, 
• Multi Gas Detectors, 
• Toximeter, 
• Oximeter, 
• Explosimeter, 
• Tele-monitoring system, etc. for detection of mine gases.

3. Effect of inflammable gas in different percentages and the difference between combustion and explosion.

4. Flame Safety Lamp :

• Construction, 
• assembly and working principle of flame safety lamp, 
• methods of testing for inflammable gas with a flame safety lamp.

5. Provisions of the Coal Mines Regulations, 2017, made under the Mines Act, 1952, relating to safety lamps and to the presence of inflammable and noxious gas in a mine.

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