NOVENEX Toolbox Talk — Your Self-Rescuer — The Thirty Minutes That Get You Out
Mining & Confined Spaces · ±6 minutes · novenex.tech/toolbox-talks
After a fire or explosion underground, carbon monoxide moves through workings faster than a person can walk. Your self-rescuer buys the minutes to reach fresh air or a refuge chamber — but only if it is with you, in condition, and you can don it blind.
Carry and care
- •On your belt everywhere underground — not in the cubby, not on the machine.
- •Check the seal, indicator and casing daily; dents and broken seals get exchanged.
- •Never open it to look inside — an opened unit is a used unit.
Use it right
- •Don at the FIRST sign of smoke or the alarm — not when breathing gets hard.
- •It gets hot in use. That means it is working. Do not remove it to cool down.
- •Walk, don't run — exertion burns your duration. Know your escape route and refuge locations by heart.
Discussion — ask the crew
- When did you last practise donning blindfolded, and what was your time?
- Trace tonight's escape route from your working place to the refuge chamber.
- What conditions get a self-rescuer exchanged at the lamp room?
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Requisition the self rescuer and related equipment from the Supply Register.