SYLLABUS FOR EXAM।NAT।ON FOR F।RST CLASS MANAGER’S CERT।F।CATE (Under Metalliferous Mines Regulations, 1961)

📘 Detailed Syllabus – DGMS Exam (Mine Management, Legislation & General Safety)

🔹 1. Mine Management Introduction

• Evolution of Management – history, theory and practice.
• Principles of Scientific Management.
• Elements of management functions → planning, organizing, controlling.
• Structure & design of organizations for mining enterprises.

Personal Management & Organizational Behaviour (OB)

• Human Resource Management: Selection, training, and development.
• Leadership: Traditional leadership styles – Autocratic, Democratic, Laissez-Faire.
• Conflict Management: Sources of conflict, organizational conflict, methods of handling, conflict resolution, conflict and growth.
• Motivation: Theories of individual motivation.
• Communication: Two-way personal communication in organizations.

Production Management

• Work study → Determination of norms and operational standards.
• Mine capacity & capability analysis.
• Production planning: short-term & long-term planning.
• Scheduling and control.
• Productivity: concepts & measurement.
• Ergonomics: application in mining operations.

Financial Management

• Capital budgeting for mining projects.
• Project evaluation techniques: Payback period, Internal Rate of Return (IRR).
• Cost analysis and cost control.
• Break-even analysis & charts.
• Working capital management.
• ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in mining.

Mining Environment

• Environmental assessment: EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), EMP (Environmental Management Plan).
• Pollution control: ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant), STP (Sewerage Treatment Plant).
• Environmental threats from underground & opencast mining.
• Mitigation measures & pollution treatment.
• Monitoring systems.
• Water management.
• Mine closure plans.
• R&R (Rehabilitation & Resettlement).
• RFCTLARR Act, 2013 (land acquisition & forest land laws).
• Reclamation: technical, biological, topsoil management.

Economic Impact of Mining

• Community impact before, during & after mining.
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in mining sector.

Materials Management

• ABC analysis.
• Inventory management in mining.

Industrial Accidents

• Human factors in industrial accidents.
• Causes & remedies.

🔹 2. Legislation

• The Mines Act, 1952
• Mines Rules, 1955
• Metalliferous Mines Regulations, 1961
• Mines Rescue Rules, 1985
• CEA (Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations, 2010 (as applicable to mines).
• Mine Vocational Training Rules, 1966
• Other safety & labour legislation applicable to Metalliferous Mines.

🔹 3. General Safety Safety in Mines

• Duty of care in mines.
• Occupational hazards of mining.
• Causes & prevention of accidents.
• Accident classification.
• Accident statistics: frequency rate, severity rate, cause-wise analysis.
• Accident investigation & reporting.
• Cost of accidents.
• TRAP (Take Responsibility in Accident Prevention).
• SMP (Safety Management Plan): Elements, SOP, Hazard Management Plans.
• Accident & emergency management (especially in opencast mines).
• Human factors in mine safety.

Workers’ Participation in Safety

• Safety Committees: bipartite, tripartite.
• Safety conferences.

Modern Safety Tools

• ISO standards.
• Safety audits.
• IT applications in safety management.

🔹 4. Risk Management

• Theory & application.
• Risk assessments: Baseline, continuous & issue-based.
• Hazard identification.
• Risk Assessment Techniques:
• WRAC (Workplace Risk Assessment & Control)
• JSA (Job Safety Analysis)
• Risk Matrix
• Risk Control: Options, hierarchy of controls, control effectiveness.
• Risk reduction: Minimization & elimination.
• Use of computers & simulations.
• Manager’s role in risk management.
• Due diligence in mining.
• Triggered Action Response Plan (TARP).

🔹 5. Dust, Fires & Water Hazards Airborne Dust

• Generation & dispersion.
• Sampling, measurement & analysis.
• Control: suppression, ventilation, treatment.
• Hazards: Silicosis, pneumoconiosis, explosions.

Mine Fires

• Causes: spontaneous heating, equipment sparks, dumps, pillars.
• Hazards: toxic gases, fiery seams, hot strata.
• Mitigation: Firefighting organizations, fire suppression systems, inertization.

Inrush of Water

• Hazards in underground & opencast mining near water bodies or loose strata.
• Mitigation: dams, pumping, drainage, exploration precautions, water danger plans.

🔹 6. Bench & Dump Failures

• Hazards & risks of slope failure in opencast benches & dumps.
• Strata management & monitoring.
• Stability precautions.

🔹 7. Other Hazards

• Extreme Weather: rain, floods, heat, lightning → effects & mitigation.
• Occupational Hazards: biological (diseases, insects), chemical (toxic exposure), working at heights.
• Mine Gases: generation, properties, physiological effects.
• Detection: Methanometers, Multi-gas detectors, Gas Chromatograph, Flame Safety Lamp.
• Mine Explosions: causes, preventive measures, firefighting & rescue.

🔹 8. Disaster Management

• CMP (Crisis Management Plan).
• Emergency services, procedures, control rooms.
• Rescue & recovery operations.
• Rescue equipment: breathing apparatus, resuscitation equipment.
• Training & selection for rescue teams.
• Safety of rescue workers.
• Damage assessment & reporting.

🔹 9. Health, Diseases & First Aid

• First Aid & Ambulance Services: resuscitation, revival, patient transport.
• Notified Diseases: Silicosis, pneumoconiosis, other occupational diseases.
• Dust inhalation – physiological aspects.
• Dust sampling & analysis.
• Symptoms, prevention & treatment.

🔹 10. Miscellaneous Safety

• Lighting: Artificial lighting principles, standards, lux measurement.
• Sanitation & Health: water, toilets, drainage, hygiene.
• Crushing & Transport Safety: conveyor belts, crushers, haulage → risks & precautions.