🏗️ Introduction

Mines depend not only on machinery and technology but also on people. Personnel Management is about managing the workforce effectively to ensure safety, productivity, and statutory compliance. In the DGMS exam, personnel management is a common topic under Mine Management. This blog explains the basics, recruitment process, training, and DGMS focus areas with examples.

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🔹 What is Personnel Management?

• Definition: Personnel Management is the process of managing people at work to achieve organizational goals.
• Focus: Recruitment, training, motivation, safety, welfare.
• In Mines: Ensures that only qualified, trained, and healthy people are deployed in hazardous environments.

📌 DGMS Tip: Personnel management = “Right person at right job with right training.”

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🔹 Recruitment & Selection in Mines

• Recruitment: Identifying and attracting suitable candidates.
• Selection: Choosing the most suitable candidates based on qualifications, certificates, and medical fitness.
• Mining Example:
• Blasting job → Must appoint certified shotfirer.
• Mine Manager → Must hold First/Second Class Manager’s Certificate.
• Rescue team → Must be medically fit and trained at DGMS-approved center.

Statutory requirement: Certain posts in mines can only be filled by persons holding DGMS certificates of competency.

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🔹 Role of Training & Development

• Training → Imparts job-specific skills (e.g., blasting, equipment handling, first aid).
• Development → Improves leadership & managerial skills for higher roles.
• Types of Training in Mines:
1. Induction Training – for new workers (safety basics, PPE use).
2. Refresher Training – compulsory under Mines Vocational Training Rules.
3. Specialized Training – for rescue, gas testing, dust control.
• DGMS Mandate: PME/IME + refresher training = compulsory.

📌 Example: Dumper operators in OC mines undergo simulator training + refresher training every year.

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🔹 DGMS Exam Points

• DGMS exam often asks:
• “Define Personnel Management with mining example.”
• “Differentiate recruitment vs selection in mines.”
• “Explain role of training in mining safety.”
• Key focus areas:
• Statutory appointments.
• Training & welfare.
• PME/IME medical checks.

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🔹 Quick One-Liners (DGMS Revision)

1. Personnel management = managing workforce effectively.
2. Recruitment = attracting candidates.
3. Selection = choosing suitable candidates.
4. DGMS certificates compulsory for statutory posts.
5. Training types → induction, refresher, specialized.
6. PME/IME = compulsory health check-ups.
7. Shotfirer → must hold DGMS certificate.
8. Rescue team → must be DGMS trained.
9. Mine Manager → statutory appointment.
10. Right person + right training = safety + productivity.

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🔹Practice MCQs – Personnel Management      (25 Questions) 

Q1. Personnel management means:
A) Managing machines
B) Managing money
C) Managing people at work
D) Managing materials only
E) None
Answer: C
Solution: It is about managing workforce.

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Q2. Recruitment means:
A) Selecting workers only
B) Attracting suitable candidates
C) Medical check-up
D) Salary payment
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Recruitment = attracting people.

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Q3. Selection means:
A) Advertising jobs
B) Choosing most suitable candidates
C) Providing training only
D) Issuing wages
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Selection = choosing suitable candidate.

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Q4. Statutory posts in mines are filled by:
A) Any worker
B) Only certified persons by DGMS
C) Contractors
D) Unskilled labour
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: DGMS certificates compulsory.

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Q5. A person handling explosives must be:
A) Ordinary miner
B) Certified shotfirer
C) Foreman
D) Clerk
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Explosives → only certified shotfirer.

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Q6. PME stands for:
A) Preliminary Mine Entry
B) Periodical Medical Examination
C) Professional Mine Engineer
D) Personnel Management Entry
E) None

Answer: B
Solution: PME = statutory medical exam.

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Q7. Training required for new workers is:
A) Induction training
B) Specialized training
C) Rescue training
D) Audit training
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: Induction for all new workers.

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Q8. Refresher training is compulsory under:
A) Mines Act 1952
B) Mines Vocational Training Rules (MVTR)
C) CMR 2017
D) MMR 1961
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: MVTR → refresher training.

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Q9. Rescue training is given at:
A) DGMS-approved centers
B) Mine office only
C) Contractor premises
D) Owner’s house
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: Rescue → DGMS approved centers.

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Q10. Personnel management in mines focuses on:
A) Cost cutting only
B) Worker safety + welfare + productivity
C) Union control only
D) Only wages
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Personnel management = workforce + safety.

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Q11. Training improves:
A) Accident risk
B) Skills & safety awareness
C) Wages only
D) Downtime
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Training increases safety & skill.

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Q12. Recruitment and selection aim for:
A) Filling statutory posts with competent people
B) Temporary workers only
C) Low cost workers
D) Outsourcing only
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: Main aim = competency & compliance.

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Q13. Foreman certificate issued by:
A) Mine owner
B) DGMS
C) Contractor
D) Union
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: DGMS issues competency certificates.

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Q14. Personnel management ensures:
A) Right man at right job
B) Any man at any job
C) Machines run fast
D) DGMS inspections
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: Key principle = right man/job.

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Q15. Development means:
A) Building infrastructure only
B) Enhancing leadership & managerial skills
C) Salary hike
D) Safety audit
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Development → leadership/skills.

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Q16. Rescue team must be:
A) Medically fit + trained
B) Any worker group
C) Contractor appointed
D) Union nominated
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: Rescue requires training + PME.

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Q17. Personnel management contributes to:
A) Safety culture
B) Worker morale
C) Productivity
D) All of the above
E) None
Answer: D
Solution: It improves all.

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Q18. Medical unfit workers should be:
A) Terminated always
B) Shifted to light duty jobs
C) Promoted
D) Ignored
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: DGMS allows light duty.

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Q19. Training records are verified by:
A) DGMS inspectors
B) Accountant
C) Panchayat
D) Police
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: DGMS checks training records.

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Q20. Personnel management is part of:
A) Mine management
B) Finance
C) Sales
D) Transport
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: It is under mine management.

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Q21. Motivation in personnel management means:
A) Forcing work
B) Encouraging safe, productive work
C) Cutting costs
D) Giving punishments
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Motivation → positive work.

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Q22. PME detects:
A) Occupational diseases
B) Production delays
C) Overburden quality
D) Coal grade
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: PME → detects health issues.

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Q23. DGMS requires PME every:
A) 6 months
B) 3 years
C) 5 years
D) 10 years
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: PME every 3 years.

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Q24. Personnel management’s ultimate goal is:
A) Safety + productivity + compliance
B) Only wages
C) Only training
D) Only discipline
E) None
Answer: A
Solution: All combined.

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Q25. Final responsibility of personnel management rests with:
A) HR Officer
B) Mine Manager
C) DGMS
D) Workers
E) None
Answer: B
Solution: Manager is statutory head.

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🏁 Conclusion Personnel Management in Mines ensures that the workforce is skilled, healthy, and motivated. For DGMS exams, focus on definitions, statutory appointments, PME/IME, and training requirements.

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