Refuge Chambers, Escape and Rescue

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Ensure worker safety

At BBE, we understand and value the importance of protecting lives and minimizing risks particularly during mining emergencies. In the presence of toxic gases and fumes or in oxygen deficient atmospheres, workers use individually worn self-contained self-rescuers (SCSRs) to reach refuge chambers along established, demarcated escape routes during events that result in the generation of toxic cases and/or oxygen deficiency. The effectiveness of this approach is essential to ensure worker safety in such dire circumstances. BBE has been involved in the design and assessment of escape and rescue strategies combining the use of SCSRs and refuge chambers. Our experience is available to our clients for their specific emergency response requirements and preparation.

Some of our services include

Refuge Chambers Physical Conditions: Provide assurance that all working places are adequately served by satisfactorily sized and equipped refuge chambers that meet the anticipated fresh air demands based on occupancy.

Risk Assessments: Review and audit Escape and Rescue risk assessments and simulations on which plans have been based.

Personnel & Training: Review and assess worker training in the use of SCSRs and refuge chambers.

Refuge Chambers Life-Saving Effectiveness: Perform site audits to assess conditions and effectiveness of refuge chambers. Inspect the equipment in refuge chambers provided for air supply systems and any scrubbing mechanism and verify any instrument and control operation. Ensure that refuge chambers can be effectively isolated and are life-sustaining. Verify the robustness of the communication systems provided for the refuge chambers.

Escape Routes: Review the allocation of (primary and secondary) escape routes to suitably assigned and positioned refuge bays. Ensure that escape routes are accurately recorded in escape plans (in waiting places and control room) and visibly sign-posted underground.

Refuge Chambers Planning: Assessment of refuge chamber allocation strategies.

Hazard Analysis: Verification of known inherent hazards in current response.

Codes of Practice: Develop, update and review Mandatory Codes of Practice and Standard Operating Procedures relating to escape and rescue and refuge chambers.

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