Underground Rescue: Equipped for Every Emergency
—Every mine is different and yet they all have one thing in common: if an emergency occurs, the goal is to get everyone to safety quickly. Mining rescue plans depends on a variety of factors including whether the site involves an open-pit mine, above or underground rescue, metal/non-metal mines. The mining rescue equipment and solutions you use will be as unique as your own mine.
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Dräger BG ProAir
The Dräger BG ProAir is a positive pressure closed circuit breathing apparatus that combines uncompromising safety with the highest level of breathing and carrying comfort. Easier to carry, easier to breathe – giving you more time to get the job done and return safely.
Mine Rescue
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Emergency Response Equipment
When an alarm goes off, everything runs at top speed: from the search for source of the alarm to the communication with the emergency control center. Safety management must quickly decide what options within the mine emergency plan are viable and, if necessary what escape or rescue measures for effected mine workers should be taken. High levels of knowledge and experience are needed, as well as the optimal provision of reliable safety and rescue equipment.
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Dräger refuge chambers for mining
During an emergency, Dräger-Simsa mine refuge chambers provide mining personnel both shelter and breathing protection with the highest quality and safety standards.
Individual refuge chambers
Dräger Engineered Refuge Solutions (ERS) provide a safe haven for miners in emergency situations, that is fully customized to the individual mine requirements.
Mine Rescue Vehicles
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Dräger MRV 9000
The Dräger MRV 9000 is the answer in an ever-changing mining environment. Innovative and customer driven – this Mine Rescue Vehicle is a unique solution in the field of mine rescue worldwide.
Dräger Mine Rescue Support Trailer
The Dräger Mine Rescue Support Trailer is a mobile, fully self-supporting work center designed to conduct full maintenance and repair of our PSS® BG4 plus closed-circuit breathing apparatus and related equipment.
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Effective Escape Planning
—Self-escape or rescue mission?
Above ground, emergency response plans generally anticipate self-escape and the provision of designated assembly points for mine personnel. Risk analysis provides information about potential risks or hazards involved. In downstream processing facilities, particularly with toxic hazards or the risk of explosions. Third-party rescue becomes necessary when personnel are unable to rescue themselves by escaping to a safe location.
Appropriate escape or rescue equipment depends on the results of risk assessment and the emergency response plan. The relevant criteria here are the degree of contamination with hazardous substances, the length of escape routes, possible oxygen deficiency, or fire.
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Emergency management at your side
We invest in training and equipment. It pays off when something goes wrong.
Getting out safely – our escape solutions
At Dräger, we know that sudden and fully unplanned situations with hazardous substances can occur within seconds and that no escape scenario is the same.
Panic – or cool, calm and collected?
Three myths about human behaviour during emergencies
Emergency Escape
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Emergency Escape Equipment
Within the scope of the risk assessment, the specific risks associated with a particular method of mining and the type of resource mined must be analyzed. This assessment forms the basis for the escape and rescue concepts to be used in the mine.
Solutions for escape and rescue concepts in the mining industry
Draeger Saver CF N (NIOSH) - safe, effective, and uncomplicated
Dräger Mine Refuge Chamber Solutions
Deep Mining
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Mines change and evolve. They become longer and deeper, more complex. These changes need to taken into account, when engineering new processes but it is also a challenge for mine rescue teams. In case of a mine emergency, they gain an overview of the situation, evaluate potential risks, examine different scenarios and then decide – based on the specific mine emergency response plan – on the optimal rescue mission.
Deep, deeper, deepest
The international trend of “deep mining” continues: Increasingly deeper seams are being mined, with the result that escape and rescue routes are becoming longer.
This has implications for the mine emergency response concept: Strategic planning of fresh air stations, refill stations for breathing air and refuge chambers are becoming more important. It is obvious that: Mine rescue teams have to travel longer distances to reach the incident site with only a limited amount of time available.
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Challenges of Mines Rescue in Expanding Mine Operations
Success begins with getting rescue teams to the action quickly and safely. As mining operations develop, the underground workings extend farther from the shaft or portal, and become more complex as they continue to expand. Travel distances and time increase.
Portrait: No Fear of Great Depths
Kent Armstrong, Global Business Development Manager of Mining, is something of an institution in this industry. He has been working in the mining industry for 42 years.
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