Mining and quarrying.

The defining problem at a mine or a quarry is distance. When the nearest hospital is an hour away, the first hour has to happen on site, which changes what has to be resident rather than reachable. The second problem is slower: dust that takes fifteen years to show up on a chest film.

Physician and safety engineer Two-week assessment Every register, obligation by obligation No obligation

What hurts people here

The hazard, before the package

Transfer time
Where the hospital is an hour away, stabilisation on site is the service. Resident clinical staff, an equipped centre and an ambulance already on shift.
Dust and silica
Spirometry and chest imaging at the interval the exposure sets, with a baseline taken at hire so a change can be read against something.
Remote deployment
A containerised unit where no building exists, set down and staffed from the first shift.
Contractor populations
Screening at scale for workforces that turn over, so that cover does not depend on who is on the muster roll this month.

Where the obligation bites

Statutory reading

Mining sites are governed by their own statutory regime as well as the Factories Act where a factory is attached, and the assessment reads both against the specific operation rather than assuming one applies.

Which provisions apply to your site?

The assessment maps them provision by provision, marks the gaps in whatever arrangement is in place now, and hands you the register to keep — whether or not you appoint Statura.

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What Statura operates on a site like yours

The service

Occupational health
The centre the site is required to have, designed, fitted out, staffed on every shift and then run.
Emergency response
A nurse at the incident in five minutes, a physician on the line in ten, an ambulance departing in fifteen, entered as a schedule to the agreement.
Compliance and safety
A live obligation register with a date and an owner on every line, the statutory safety roles filled, audits and quarterly drills.

Questions

Our site has no building to convert. What do you do?

A mobile medical unit: a twenty-foot container fitted as a compliant health centre, specified against the state ambulance-room schedule, delivered in weeks and staffed from the morning it is set down.

How is dust surveillance actually run at a remote site?

On site. Samples are drawn on site and tested at accredited laboratories, spirometry is conducted in the unit, and every result is read by a physician rather than filed. A baseline is taken at hire so later readings mean something.

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Start with one site.

Send us one site. A physician and an industrial safety engineer walk it over two weeks and hand back a written report: the statutory obligations that apply, where the current arrangement falls short, the staffing and equipment required, and a recommended operating model. No charge, no obligation, and the report is yours to keep either way.

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Enquiries
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Statura Health LLP
Industrial sites across India