Learning on ScreenSELF RESCUERS
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 16th Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: small filtering masks known as self-rescuers are being used at selected pits to combat carbon monoxide fumes.
NCB Commentary - Despite all our precautions, stringent safety regulations and attention to ventilation, fires and explosions underground can still happen - and sometimes cost lives.
But the biggest danger to life comes from the carbon monoxide fumes which are carried round the pit in front of a fire or explosion by the ventilation.
Experiments are being made at selected pits with small filtering masks, known as Self Recuers, which enable men to breathe in spite of the carbon monoxide.
In some countries self rescuers are already carried by all miners. This is a miner in Poland.
The new British Self Rescuer works like this. After breaking the seal, the rescuer is released instantly by pulling the metal tag which springs open the sealing band and breaks the case in two. Grip the mouthpiece firmly between the teeth and fit the flange of the mouthpiece between teeth and lips - making a good seal.
The nostrils are closed by the nose clip, making it impossible to breathe through the nose. The strap is now slipped on the head - taking the weight of the self rescuer.
Self rescuers are joining the safety lamp, helmet and safety boots. One more item to carry - but also one more weapon in the fight against nature; making mining safer by providing another answer to a hazard which has so often proved fatal. - Keywords
- Mining; Safety devices
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
The British National Film Catalogue Vol.1 1963, p.55
The National Archives COAL 32 /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
- Credits:
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- Camera
- John Reid
- Commentator
- John Slater
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Production Co.
- National Coal Board Film Unit
- Cutter
- Rhonda Small
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