132. Duties and responsibilities of Superintendent.- (1) The Superintendent shall be overall in charge for control of the rescue station and the rescue rooms served by such rescue station.

(2) The Superintendent shall ensure that all the rescue equipment and apparatus kept at the rescue station, rescue rooms and at the entrance of the below ground mine under their control are-

(i) maintained in proper working order;

(ii) inspected by instructors at specified intervals; and

(iii) tested and adjustments are made accordingly.

(3) The superintendent shall ensure that adequate stock of spare parts and supplies are kept for maintaining rescue equipment and apparatus in proper working order.

(4) The superintendent shall countersign the records maintained.

(5) The superintendent shall ensure that persons selected for initial training and those undergoing refresher training receive the course of instructions and practices as may be approved by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and are issued the certificates for the same.

(6) The superintendent shall make periodical inspection of rescue rooms and the apparatus and equipment under their control.

(7) When an emergency at a below ground mine, superintendent shall perform such rescue and recovery work as may be assigned by the manager or in absence of manager, by the principal official present at the surface.

(8) The superintendent shall send a daily report and a complete report within twenty-four hours after completion of the rescue or recovery work to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator or the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator.

(9) The superintendent shall maintain in a bound paged book or in retrievable and non-editable electronic form and shall record therein the results of each of their inspections and the action taken by them to rectify the defects observed during inspection.