POP 2010
Thousands of heavy-duty trousers, boots and helmets this year
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.
“Now it will be up to each mine. The mines that will place their orders of the new aids earlier can count on earlier deliveries,” said Petr Svrčina, advisor of the Head of the Department of Work Safety and Health Protection.
Additional purchases of technical working aids, including 4,000 T 1005.1 lamps, 400 Dräger X-am 5000 indicators/detectors, and 12,000 OXY K 50 self-rescue breathing apparatuses, are planned.
“We believe the purchases of the new personal protection articles and technical working aids will make a substantial contribution to improved safety of underground personnel and make them feel more comfortable at work,” added member of OKD’s Safety and Security Department Pavel Beránek.
This year’s deliveries represent a smooth continuation of the working and safety aids renovation programme launched last year. By the end of 2008, 7,541 pairs of boots, 9,124 T-shirts, 9,452 shirts and 9,496 helmets with an eye shield were delivered to OKD’s mines and distributed to underground personnel. The first batch of 3,500 of heavy-duty overalls and trousers will be delivered to mining plants in the fifth week of 2009.
The year 2008 also marked the beginning of deliveries of technical aids. By the end of the year, underground personnel received 2,000 T 1005.1 lamps, 500 K 07 lamps, 160 Dräger X-am 5000 indicators/detectors and 400 Signal 5 indicators/detectors, as well as 500 OXY K 50 self-rescue breathing apparatuses.
OKD’s management made the decision to purchase new and safer personal protection articles in mid-2008, with deliveries taking place between 2008 and 2010. Ensuing tenders resulted in the selection of three types of heavy-duty boots (Bridget, Malenka and Jano), two types of cotton T-shirts, one shirt with reflective strips and OKD’s logo, black heavy-duty overalls and trousers with silver and yellow-green reflective strips and two types of helmets with an eye shield.
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