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hi I'm Andy Sawyer's with the Virginia
Department of Mines minerals and energy
and this is your mind safety minute
today we're going to be talking about
mine rescue equipment GMM II provides
mine rescue coverage for Virginia
underground mines that need assistance
in their mine rescue coverage we inspect
our equipment to make sure that it's
functioning properly that there are no
air leaks that everything works the way
that it's designed to work so that if we
were to encounter a bad atmosphere we
would be safe and we would be able to do
the job that we're there to perform EV
our we check our oxygen bottles oxygen
levels we check to make sure that
there's no holes we've got the mask this
mask is is used to of course keep out
the bad elements we check and inspect to
make sure there's no holes but it fits
properly we have these gas detectors gas
detectors that will tell us the the
levels of the gases in the mine which
would of course be your methane your
oxygen or Co levels we we use all of
this equipment to make sure that we're
safe but then to also make sure that
you're safe when we're in some kind of a
mine rescue situation
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