Syllabus - Mine Safety Engineering (MI703 (B))

Safety management systems in Indian mining industry; engineering aspects of safety management

Basic concept of risk, reliability and hazard potential; elements of risk management; statistical methods; control charts; appraisal of advanced techniques – fault tree analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, quantitative structure activity relationship analysis; fuzzy model for risk management. Measurement of safety efficiency; safety audit methods; safety record management. Safety legislations, Safety meetings, constitution of safety committees, functions, pit safety committee Ergonomics, Safety practices in various operations, blasting, drilling, equipment and machine handling, site specific safety, ground control, ventilation and gases; safety codes, implementation and monitoring of safety programmes Recent Trends of development of Safety engineering approaches. Safety training