Talked with my dad today, told him about what I was doing. He was happy to hear I was doing good, and taking class's. Since he has worked with OSHA for a number of years doing air test, and testing for different atmospheric gas's. He knew already what I told him what I learned today, so this is really cool. It will help me down the road when I have any questions on any of the different gas's and minerals I'll be around. (ch4,coal dust, rock dust,co2,h2) which all these are bad at you! and yet the $ people get paid doing this kind of work has made me interested in it.
yesterday at class we learned about the ventilation of the coal mines and how the methane gas along with all the others i mentioned above gets disposed of properly. and learned a little bit about the machines.
Today we learned about the miners law, and msha, sorta the same people as osha. (look them up). so for my safety and the safety of everyone down there, so they are there to protect me from injury and death to myself or my fellow.
We watched videos and did examples on testing the air, where to test it, and how frequently you should test it. also what to do when the man blowers/fans stop working?, well its a very bad idea to continue working without fresh air being pumped inby towards the face your drilling from.
it's an art in it's self describing on the mine ventilation system. it's a maze of temp stoppings, and perm stoppings to direct the air flow. from the fresh and the exhaust.
also yesterday we all went into the underground simulator which looks just like a mine! so it was cool.
tomorrow we are going back and going to do some first responder type shit, and learn about the masks, and what to do in an emergency. also CPR. there are zero girls in my class so hope we use a dummy. lol
then thursday i'll take the exam
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yesterday at class we learned about the ventilation of the coal mines and how the methane gas along with all the others i mentioned above gets disposed of properly. and learned a little bit about the machines.
Today we learned about the miners law, and msha, sorta the same people as osha. (look them up). so for my safety and the safety of everyone down there, so they are there to protect me from injury and death to myself or my fellow.
We watched videos and did examples on testing the air, where to test it, and how frequently you should test it. also what to do when the man blowers/fans stop working?, well its a very bad idea to continue working without fresh air being pumped inby towards the face your drilling from.
it's an art in it's self describing on the mine ventilation system. it's a maze of temp stoppings, and perm stoppings to direct the air flow. from the fresh and the exhaust.
also yesterday we all went into the underground simulator which looks just like a mine! so it was cool.
tomorrow we are going back and going to do some first responder type shit, and learn about the masks, and what to do in an emergency. also CPR. there are zero girls in my class so hope we use a dummy. lol
then thursday i'll take the exam
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