Respirator, Research and Manufacturing Association for Mine Rescue Operations

Director - Oleksandr S. Chumak

Products:
- mine fire extinguishers: bomb, portable, mobile, stationary ones, including automatic installations (fire extinguishing agents are water, air- and inert-mechanical foam, powders, aerosols and their combinations);
- mine stop and control pipe-line valves ;
- breathing apparatus of compressed and chemical oxygen type;
- self-contained self-rescuers;
- heat protective suits and jackets;
- dust masks;
- medical equipment for helping victims at pre-hospital stage;
- emergency communication facilities;
- efficient technology of carrying-out emergency rescue operations.


Services:
- development and expertise of projects of fire protection of coal mines, concentrating mills and briquet-making plants, other industrial enterprises;
- development of systems of fire-sprinkling water supply of coal mines;
- development of power-saving technological schemes of water supply for fire extinguishing and drainage of mines;
- installation, adjustment, maintenance and repairs of fire protection and fire-fighting facilities in coal mines and other industrial sites;
- maintenance of the ShSS-1 mine self-rescuers to prolong their service life;
- certification tests of means of individual protection, rescue of the victims and fighting the fires;
- estimation of fire hazard of materials, articles and equipment permissible to use underground, including carrying-out the certification tests. Development of recommendations on improving their fire safety;
- metrological support of research, production, tests and operation of mine-rescue and mine fire-fighting equipment.