Ostrava – OKD Mining Company has issued an up-to-date report, according to which preventive measures, such as wear safety clothing which sewn-on high light reflective tapes, have been strengthened to reduce the number of industrial accidents in coal mining.
According to OKD spokesman Cobol, this year, 25 percent of injuries were less than in the same period of last year. While last year there were 256 injuries, this year only 190. It was not just OKD employees but also other companies working in mining. Fatal accidents were last year, three this year, from the supply companies.
“The extraordinary emphasis of OKD’s management on prevention and billion-dollar investment in new mining technologies and protective equipment brings its fruit. In the first nine months of this year, the number of registered injuries of OKD employees and workers in supplier organizations decreased by 25 percent year-on-year. The crash rate dropped by about 27 percent to 8.08. The most common cause of injuries is long-term poorly or poorly estimated risk or violation of work discipline. That is why we are trying to intimidate even more people that they are responsible for the health of their own and their colleagues underground. “Cobol said.
OKD has calculated from long-term statistics that the riskiest month is September. This month, she announced a month of work safety.
Significant reductions in industrial accidents are attributed to billions of investment in modern technologies that reduce the proportion of direct labor and the introduction of new protective equipment. Employees are also encouraged to avoid workplace accidents. Among other things, they compete for a car.
“Work safety at OKD definitely influenced the completion of the modernization of mining technologies, to which we have invested about 9 billion crowns since 2008. At the same time, it was a complete replacement of the protective and technical aid of miners for more than 0.5 billion crowns, which were the largest modern investment in this field within all Czech companies. Employees were given new work shoes, scarves, self-rescuers, personal flashlights, shirts and trinkets with reflective materials, dangerous gas detectors, and other tools and equipment. In addition to the car competition, the best teams of ten thousand dollars earn in the competition for a safe workplace. “added Cobol.