Stamp of India - 2002 - Colnect 158236 - 100 years of Directorate General of Mines Safety

The Directorate General of Mines Safety is an agency of the

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which administers the provisions of the government of India Mines Act, 1952 and, the Rules and Regulations framed there under. As per Constitution of India, occupational safety, welfare and health of workers employed in mines (coal, metalliferous and oil-mines) are the concern of the Central Government, under the Union Ministry of Labour & Employment. The directorate carries out the mandates of the Mine Act at all

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

and

mineral processing In the field of extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, also known as ore dressing, is the process of separating commercially valuable minerals from their ores. History Before the advent of heavy machinery the raw ore was broken up using ...

operations in the India, regardless of size, number of employees, commodity mined, or method of extraction. The organization has its headquarters at

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Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

) and is headed by Director-General of Mines Safety.

Mission

Their mission is of continuous improvement of ‘safety and health standards, practices and performances’ in mines and oil-fields of

. They implement ‘pro-active safety and health strategies’, and continuously improve their processes. They ensure ‘effective use of resources’ and behavioral change in its personnel.

Safety, health, and welfare legislation

The directorate administers the following acts and regulations:
. * The Mines Act, 1952 # Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, Coal Mines Regulations, 1957 # The Metalliferous Mines Regulations, 1961 # Oil Mines Regulations-1984 # Mines Rules, 1955 # Mines Vocational Training Rules, 1966 # The Mines Rescue Rules, 1985 # Mines Creche Rules, 1966 * Electricity Act, 2003 # Central Electricity Authority( Measures Relating to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations, 2010 * Allied Legislations #

Factories Act, 1948, India A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an Industry (manufacturing), industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with Outline of industrial machinery, machinery, where workers manufacturing, manuf ...

- Chapter III & IV # Manufacture, storage & import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989 * Under Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986 # Land Acquisition (Mines) Act, 1895 # The Coal Mines (Conservation & Development ) Act, 1974

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Mission

Safety, health, and welfare legislation

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