Mines support is essential to the safety of every underground deployed people support to interact with the ground to create a stable rock structure. So that, the owner, agent, and manager of every mine shall prepare, formulate and implement a Strata Control and Monitoring Plan (SCAMP). It includes System and organization for procurement & supply, method of handling including assembling, dismantling & transport of support materials. The system & organization for maintenance & checking of supports dressing of roof & sides, erecting, examining, and retightening of supports & re-erecting dislodged supports. The manner setting & withdrawal of supports including the setting of extra supports to control the collapse of the roof from which supports are being withdrawn.
Mine supporting module would make you fully conversant with the plan of strata control and monitoring, support plan, and the codes of standing orders there-in to secure the roof and sides of belowground workplaces, and strata around mine openings.