Mining Industry Unites At DGMS Seminar To Tackle Safety In Bulk Material Handling

Directorate General of Mines Safety, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India organised two day National Seminar on 16th & 17th April 2025 at Bengaluru, on “Safety challenges in Bulk Material Handling Equipment of Mining (Coal and Non-coal)” under the guidance of Ujjwal Tah, DG, DGMS as Chief patron.

D Bageshwar Naik, DDG(Mech) as Chairman, Ajay Singh, DDG (Elec), R T Mandekar, DDG, NW Zone, as co-convenor, P.M. Prasad, CMD, CIL, Amitava Mukherjee, CMD, NMDC, Uday A. Kaole, CMD, MCL, N. Balram, CMD, SCCL are patrons to this seminar.

Dignitaries Vinay Kumar, Director (Technical), NMDC, S.K. Sinha, Director (Operations), HCL, Nirbhay Sancheti, Director (SMS), R.A. Meena, DDG(WZ), Suprio Chakraborty, DDG (EZ), Neeraj Kumar, DDG (NZ), Satyanarayana, Director, SCCL, presided in the seminar.

Officials from Mining companies, including CIL, NMDC, SCCL, HZL, HCL, MCL, Tata Steel, JSW, faculty members from premier mining institutes, experts from global mining safety organisations and research institutes and equipment manufacturers participated in the seminar.

In the seminar, 30 technical papers were presented, and a total of 58 papers were published in the souvenir for understanding and analysing the present safety challenges in Bulk Material handling in the mining industry, and deliberations were made to find out a way forward to mitigate associated risks.

This seminar provided a framework to ameliorate safety standards and to strengthen the implementation of statutory provisions to improve the safety and health of persons employed in the mining industry. The seminar concluded with a valedictory function and felicitation of the participants.