OREANDA-NEWS. March 14, 2012. Under a campaign for improvement of safety and labor protection, 120 overmen from units of G. Omarov shaft mining trust of LLP "Corporation Kazakhmys" in Karagandy, Zheskazgan and Balkhash took a special course and became paramedics - specialists able to provide urgent medical aid, reported the press-centre of KASE.

Each paramedic in a uniform with special labels will be equipped with medical kits necessary for urgent medical aid, including a bag containing medicines, whose completeness will be regularly checked. Dispatchers on site will be updated on a paramedic's location. It is expected that paramedics will later be provided with special vehicles suitable for mines.

Paramedics training is one of measures taken at facilities of the mining trust (MT) in order to minimize consequences of traumatism, accident rate and improve labor conditions. Also, modern individual rescue kits and illumination devices are on duty at the facilities. For instance, all drivers of loading-unloading vehicles and dumper truck drivers are provided with full-face masks with damp-proof glasses protecting them from aerosols, exhaust gases. Also, MT units now use dry-cell torches, more functional and safer compared with alkaline-based devices used in the past. Great attention is paid at the trust's facilities to employee training with over KZT10 m spent on it last year.