A mine as an object of crisis management

The article deals with problems connected to crisis management regarding mining companies. In accordance with adequate decrees, mining companies, including mining plants, belong to objects towards which crisis management rules should be applied. In mining plants, apart from underground threats, ground threats that lead to a crisis situation might also emerge on the entrepreneur’s territory. By this reason, they should be guided by the principles for the preparation for their special protection through conceptual, planning, organizational, logistic, technical, training and control activities taken to develop, agree and update specific protection plans, implement projects under the alert and notification system, and exchange information on threats. A summary of possible hazards to a particular site and a separate mining plant facility, assessment and risk control are essential to develop a safety concept and prevent risks. There is a need of continual analyses of potential threats and actions taken to eliminate them, and if they occur the rapid response of individual services and appropriate integrated rescue operations.