NO: MSE-29022|61296|2022|MSE(HQ)

Dhanbad, Date: 29/08/2022

DGMS APPROVAL NO.-M_30998/2

From

Chief Inspector of Mines & Director General of Mines Safety
Directorate General of Mines Safety,
P.O & Distt: Dhanbad - 826 001.

To

ANTON SCHROFNER, Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Drager Safety AG& CO,  KGaA Revalstrasse 1, 
Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck, Germany-23560

Sub:  Approval of  Draeger Mobile Gas Detector Model Pac 6*00/8*00 (MOG 00*) for use in belowground Coal and Metalliferious Mines, manufactured by M/s Drager Safety AG & Co., Germany

Sir,

Please refer to your online ID No. 61296 dated 26.7.2022 and offline reference No.-DSIPL/MG/DGMS/2022/PAC/11 dated 26.7.2022 on the above subject.

In view of the satisfactory field trial performance reports received from Jamadoba Mine of M/s Tata Steel Ltd; Narwapahar Mine of M/s UCIL, and test reports from M/s CSA Group, Canada vide Test certificate No. IECEx CSA 16.0054, dated 03.05.2017 and QAR issued from M/s IECEx Quality Assesment Report Summary, Germany vide certificate No. DE/BVS/QAR06.0001/17; I, in exercise of the powers conferred on Chief Inspector of Mines (also designated as Director General of Mines Safety) under Regulation 208(3) of the Coal Mines Regulations, 2017 and Regulation 122, 126(3)(b) & 141 of the Metalliferous Mines Regulations, 1961 hereby approve the use of Mobile Gas Detector Pac 6*00/8*00 (MOG 00*) for detection of gases Carbon Monoxide (CO) & Oxygen (O₂) in Coal & Metalliferious Mines for a period of five years subject to strict compliance of the following conditions:-

1. 0  The Portable Gas Detector  Mobile Gas Detector Pac 6*00/8*00 (MOG 00*) use  for  detection of Carbon Mono Oxide (CO) & Oxygen (O₂) in Coal & Metalliferious Mines shall be identical in construction to those tested at test laboratory CSA Group, Canada.

2.0   DGMS approval number SA-03/2022 shall be marked on every Portable Gas Detector Mobile Gas Detector Pac 6*00/8*00 (MOG 00*).

        3.0   No change in the design or construction including the material etc. shall be made unless an approval from the same is obtained from this Directorate in writing.

        4.0    Any replacement of part required for maintenance of the equipment which is directly or indirectly connected to the FLP/IS features thereof shall be supplied by the manufacture as and when required.

        5.0 An officer of this Directorate may, at any time draw sample(s) from the supplier or from the user and get it tested at the cost of manufacture. If the test report is not satisfactory this approval shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

        6.0 The product shall be tested at any Govt. approved laboratory whenever standard of the testing regime change and the approval is revalidated from the Directorate under new/revised testing standard(s).

7.0 The minimum life of the Gas detector shall be atleast five years. The sensors shall  operate satisfactory at a temperature up-to 50 degree centigrade .

8.0 The Mobile Gas Detector Pac 6*00/8*00 (MOG 00*) shall be critically examined and subjected to through overhaul by the manufacturer atleast once in six months.

9.0 Every customer shall be provided at the time of delivery of each of the equipments referred to above with an instruction manual on the maintenance, handling, installation and operation of the equipment.

            10.0 To ensure proper quality of the product supplied to the user, routine quality control tests shall be carried out and record there of kept maintained. A certificate  to this effect shall also be furnished with each consignment. However, the test for acceptability of            the equipment as may be considered necessary shall also be carried out at the above referred laboratory or test house agreed to between the users and the suppliers.

            11.0 Any complaint from the consumer about the quality of the gas detector shall be promptly attended to and also be brought to the notice of this Directorate  immediately. 

            12.0  The manufacture and their Indian counterpart M/s Draeger Safety India Private Limited,  Mumbai, shall jointly ensure provision of the following amenities   to cover all the mines where the instrument has been supplied.

1.   Adequate arrangement for after sales, service and maintenance of the instruments.
2. Adequate facilities for training on use and care of the instruments and
3. Prompt supply of the spares.

             13.0  Please note that the above approval is also subject to the following additional conditions.

1. If any time any of the conditions subject to which this approval has been granted is violated or not complied with this approval shall deemed to have been revoked with immediate effect.

2. This approval is being accorded without prejudice to any other provisions of any statute which may be or may becomes applicable at any time.

        c This approval may be amended or withdrawn at any time if considered necessary in interest of safety.