Interview Preparation CMR/MMR First Class/Second Class Part-1

1. What is Safety management plan?

  • Safety management plan is a detailed guideline to be followed to ensure maximum safety in mining operations to create a hazard free working environment and reduce the likelihood and impact of mishaps of all kinds in Indian Mines.
  • Ninth Conference on Safety in Mines recommended to adopt Risk Management as a tool for development of appropriate health & safety management systems in Indian mines.

 

2. How Safety management plan should be prepared?

  • It shall be prepared by management of Mines (i.e Owner/Agent/Manager)
  • First step: To undertake a formal risk assessment process with the help of guidelines which have been issued by DGMS.
  • Second step: Preparation of ‘Risk Management Plans’
  • Third step: Implementation of Risk Management Plans.

 

3. What is Safety Management system?

  • The infrastructure to be placed in a mining organization in order to ensure flawless implementation of safety management plan

 

4. What does Safety Management system include?

  • Attitude of workforce at all levels
  • Competent people
  • Fit-for-purpose equipment
  • Suitable work methods (or processes and procedures)
  • Planned and controlled work environments

In nutshell SMS includes manpower, equipment as well as mining techniques.

 

5. What is Safety manual?

  • Safety Manual is an integral part of Safety Management Plan.
  • The manual would outline the operational procedures to comply with the overall and specific hazard management plans.
  • It is the document that would be available to all workers on site and should enable them to be aware of not only the framework within which they have to do their work but also what is expected from them to ensure a safe and healthy work environment.
  • It could contain: – Relevant Acts, Regulations and Circulars, Emergency Procedures, Standing Orders, Individual Job Procedures, Process for introducing new methods, equipment or materials etc., Training Requirements, Hazard Identification and Risk Management Process, Safety Management Forms (accident investigation, hazard analysis, reporting etc.), Medical examinations, Entitlements for employees injured or suffering health impacts at the mine.

 

6. What are different types of leadership?

Different writers have classified types of leadership differently but broadly three types of

leadership style are recognized. These are Democratic, Autocratic and Laissez faire.

7. What are the characteristics of democratic style of leadership?

Democratic: Also called Participative style of leadership.

Characteristics:

·             It values the input of team members and peers, but the responsibility of making the final decision rests with the participative leader.

·             Participative leadership boosts employee morale because employees make contributions to the decision-making process.

·             It causes them to feel as if their opinions matter.

·             When a company needs to make changes within the organization, the participative leadership style helps employees accept changes easily because they play a role in the process.

·             This style meets challenges when companies need to make a decision in a short period

8. What are the characteristics of autocratic style of leadership?

Characteristics:

·             The autocratic leadership style allows managers to make decisions alone without the input of others.

·             Managers possess total authority and impose their will on employees.

·             No one challenges the decisions of autocratic leaders.

·             This leadership style benefits employees who require close supervision.

·             Creative employees who thrive in group functions detest this leadership style.

9. What are the characteristics of Laissez-Faire style of leadership?

·             A laissez-faire leader lacks direct supervision of employees and fails to provide regular feedback to those under his supervision.

·             Highly experienced and trained employees requiring little supervision fall under the laissez-faire leadership style.

·             However, not all employees possess those characteristics.

·             This leadership style hinders the production of employees needing supervision.

·             The laissez-faire style produces no leadership or supervision efforts from managers, which can lead to poor production, lack of control and increasing costs.

10. What is corporate social responsibility?

CSR refers to activities done by a company to give social-economic-environmental benefits to the society.

 

11. What are the examples of CSR?

Indian Oil gives special allotment of petrol/diesel station dealerships and LPG distributorships to beneficiaries from among SC/ST/PH/Ex-servicemen, war widows, etc.

Installation of hand pumps/bore well/tube wells/submersible pumps

Rainwater harvesting projects,

Aquaguard water purifiers/water coolers to schools/community center etc.

Organising Medical/Health Camps on Family Planning,

Immunization, AIDS awareness

Big companies like Coal India Limited, Tata, Wipro, Birla, Essar have done many such projects.

12. Why CSR is needed?

·              The issue of Corporate social responsibility was raised in Rio Earth Summit (1992).

CSR is done for

·             Pure philanthropic reasons.

·             Earning Good will among customers and local community members.

·             In long term it benefits the company itself by providing skilled labour, better purchasing capacity of community etc.

·             Getting tax-benefits from Government.

13. What are the provisions of CSR in India?

The Companies Act contains provisions regarding CSR.

Who is covered?

  • Companies that have a turnover of over Rs 1,000 crore
  • or have a net worth of Rs 500 crore
  • or that have recorded a net profit of Rs 5 crore

What are the provisions?

These companies are expected to spend 2 per cent of their profit in preceding three financial years towards CSR.

What are the punishments?

  • The Act says, they’re “expected” to…meaning it is not compulsory to spend money. BUT, the same bill provides that
  • Board of directors will be responsible for seeing that company spends money for CSR.
  • It is compulsory to send report on the CSR-spending to the Corporate Affairs Minister.
  • If company is not spending money for CSR, it’ll have to explain why they are not doing so.
  • Companies that do not report will face a penalty ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 25 lakh or even imprisonment of up to three years

14. What is capital budgeting?

Capital Budgeting is the process of making investment decision in fixed assets or capital expenditure. Capital Budgeting is also known as investment, decision making, planning of capital acquisition, planning and analysis of capital expenditure etc.

15. What is ABC analysis?

In materials management, the ABC analysis (or Selective Inventory Control) is an inventory categorization technique.

The ABC analysis suggests that inventories of an organization are not of equal value. Thus, the inventory is grouped into three categories (A, B, and C) in order of their estimated importance.

'A' items are very important for an organization. Because of the high value of these 'A' items, frequent value analysis is required. An organization needs to avoid excess capacity. 'B' items are important, but of course less important than 'A' items and more important than 'C' items. Therefore, 'B' items are intergroup items. 'C' items are marginally important.

16. What is XYZ analysis?        

XYZ analysis is one of the basic supply chain techniques, often used to determine the inventory valuation for an organization.

X class items which are critically important and require close monitoring and tight control – while this may account for large value these will typically comprise a small percentage of the overall inventory count.

      Y class is of lower criticality requiring standard controls and periodic reviews of usage.

      Z class require the least controls, are sometimes issues as “free stock” or forward holding.

17. What is national grid?

National grid is nationwide synchronous power grid, interconnecting all the five regional grids (Northern, Southern, Eastern, North-eastern and Western) to enable scheduled/ unscheduled exchange of power as well as for providing open access to encourage competition in power market.

18. What is open access in electricity market?

What is open access– simple- open to access electricity from any seller i.e. consumers being able to purchase directly from power producers rather than distribution companies.

Advantage- As it allows generators to sell power to the highest bidders while consumers can source their needs from the most economic seller, it promotes competition and efficiency

Open Access (OA) policy introduced under Electricity Act 2003, allows consumers with electricity load above 1 MW to procure electricity directly from electricity markets.

19. What is contour line?

contour line of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value. It is an imaginary line which connects points of equal elevation.

It is a crossdimensional sea map, which thus

shows valleys and hills, and the steepness of slopes.

The contour interval of a contour map is the difference in elevation between successive contour

lines.

The principal characteristics of contour lines which help in plotting or reading a contour map are as

follows:

  • Contour lines must close, not necessarily in the limits of the plan.
  • The horizontal distance between any two contour lines indicates the amount of slope and varies inversely on the amount of slope.
  • Widely spaced contour indicates flat surface.
  • Closely spaced contour indicates steep slope ground.
  • Equally spaced contour indicates uniform slope.
  • Irregular contours indicate uneven surface.
  • Approximately concentric closed contours with increasing values towards centre indicate hills.

Contour lines generally do not meet or intersect each other. If contour lines are meeting in some portion, it shows existence of a vertical cliff. 

20. What are the provisions of first aid station in Mines rule?

At every mine there shall be provided and maintained first-aid equipment as prescribed in the Third Schedule, at conveniently accessible stations where injured persons may receive first-aid treatment, as follows:

(a) above ground, a first- aid station –

i) at the top of every shaft or incline where men or material are normally wound or hauled;

ii) in every workshop;

iii) at every screening plant and loading place; and

iv) at every other place where more than 50 persons are employed at any one time.

(b) In every opencast working, one first-aid station for every 50 persons or part thereof, employed at any one time; and

below ground, one first-aid station –

  1. at the bottom of every shaft where men or material are normally wound, and at or near every plant;
  2. near the drive end of every haulage;
  3. in or at the entrance to every district or section of the mine:
  1. Provided that nothing in this sub-rule shall be construed to require the provision of a first-aid station within 300 metres of another first-aid station.
  2. It shall be the duty of the persons appointed to be in charge of a first-aid station under rule 42, to see that the equipment provided at the station is kept in good order and that it is replenished whenever necessary.
  3. An up-to-date list of all first-aid stations provided in the mine shall be kept in the office of the mine and also displayed prominently at the first-aid room) 

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