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OSTRAVA – After seven years the Mining Rescue Service (HBZS) is busy again with the masks or personal rescue devices for mines. The old Ukrainian devices ŠSS – 1 PV type will be replaced with German Dräger OXY K 50 S. There will be 13.000 pieces delivered to OKD this year.... more

OSTRAVA – Like vitaminization in the mines or not, this three-month experimental campaign has been running in our coalfield from this year January, the preceding year alike. The coal getting, preparatory and transport staff are given five tablets of Juwital C, with 100 mg of vitamin C in each tablet, once a week. Their everyday consumption should increase their immunity partially and improve prevention of respiratory diseases and flu epidemics.... more

OSTRAVA – Supplies of personal protection articles and technical working aids to all mines will continue throughout this year as well. For example, the company management will buy 10,000 pairs of boots, 55,000 T-shirts, 20,000 shirts, 11,000 heavy-duty trousers and 5,000 helmets with a new shield.... more

LAZY – Eight large crates appeared in the lamp room of the Karviná Mine’s Lazy Shaft. They contained new OXY K50S/AS self-rescue breathing apparatuses (“masks” in the vernacular of miners) manufactured by Dräger, Germany, which will replace existing Ukrainian ŠSS 1/PV models that have been in service for close to nine years.... more

OSTRAVA – Compared to 2007, key safety indicators and injury incidence rates at OKD (including employees of contractors) showed positive trends last year. In 2008, there was a significant year-on-year decline of registered injuries at work, from 519 in 2007 to 416 in 2008, i.e. 20 percent less. The otherwise positive results were somewhat tainted by seven fatal injuries.... more

Dear colleagues,

We are now two weeks into the economically challenging year 2009 and we have already experienced a fatal accident. I would like to take the opportunity to ask every single one of you working underground or at the surface to stay on a high alert regarding safety. With every single step we should ask ourselves: Are we doing it safely? If not, we should reconsider how to do our job and then do it in the safest manner.... more

PASKOV MINE - The new vehicle made available recently to the rescue crew of Paskov Mine has not seen any „live action“ yet, so it shows an imaginary zero on its speedometer. This is an extended version of Volkswagen Crafter van worth more than a million, which only arrived in its garage at Chlebovice shaft near Frýdek-Místek for the first time on Friday, November 7. May it stay at a standstill there as long as possible!... more

OSTRAVA – In our mining district, the progress of the Production Optimization Program up to the year 2010 (POP 2010), which consists primarily in modernizing coal extraction as well as driving work at all OKD mines, proceeds hand in hand with replacements of our miners' protective and personal work aids. During the period of two years, this process will entail costs of half a billion Czech korunas.... more

KARVINÁ MINING PLANT – A special TV broadcasting, which all employees should spend some time watching either before or after the shift, is available at the ČSA and Lazy Mines of the Karviná Mining Plant. Its 106cm plasma screens, which are strategically placed close to vending machines located before the gates to the shaft,... more