Name: Geoff Nugent            
Title: Operations Manager (Operations)
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Emergency (underground coal mine) Risk Management facilitation and modeling
• Emergency Decision making modeling for emergency re-entry to underground coal mine
• Mine Re-entry Action System (MRAS- computer based tool for re-entry decision making)
• Re-entry planning following incidents in underground coal
• Mine ventilation modeling
  

Location: Dysart Mines Rescue Station – central Queensland (QMRS)
E-mail address: gnugent@qmrs.com.au
Contact Information (mailing address):

Queensland Mines Rescue Service
P.O. Box 156
49 Garnham Drive
Dysart Qld 4745
Australia
61 7 49582244

Name: Wayne W Hartley             
Title: CEO
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Emergency management systems
• Senior executive management
• Corporate management and risk management modeling
• Financial and business management systems
• Funding modeling
• Organisational structuring and emergency modeling

Location:  QMRS Head Office; Dysart; Mines Rescue Service
E-mail address: whartley@qmrs.com.au
Contact Information (mailing address):

Queensland Mines Rescue Service
49 Garnham Drive
P.O. Box 156
Dysart Qld 4745
Australia
61 7 49582244

Name: Alex Gryska               
Title: Manager Mine Rescue & Secretary Treasurer of International Mine Rescue Body (IMRB)
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Emergency preparedness and response
• International Mines Rescue Body Affairs
• Underground and surface mine rescue
• Mine Rescue Program Development
• Competency based emergency response training

Location: Sudbury Ontario Canada
E-mail address: alexgryska@workplacesafetynorth.ca
Contact Information (mailing address):

WORKPLACE SAFETY NORTH
760 Notre Dame Avenue, Unit M
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
P3A 2T4

T 705 671-6360 ext 330
M 705 665-5408
F 705 671-6398

Name: Barrie Simoneau               
Title: Director of Risk Management
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Safety, Risk Management,
• Emergency Preparedness & Response,
• Mine Rescue,
• Training and Incident Investigation,
• Auditing

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
E-mail address: bsimoneau@mines.ca
Contact Information (mailing address):

700 – 305 Broadway,     
Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada R3C 3J7
1 (204) 989 – 1890 Work telephone
1 (204) 299 – 9409 Mobile Phone

Name: Helmut Ehnes         
Title: Managing Director, Safety and Health Department, BG RCI
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Workplace Safety and Health,
• Contact to ISSA Mining Sector

Location: Germany, Langenhagen (next to City of Hannover)
E-mail address: helmut.ehnes@bgrci.de
Contact Information (mailing address):

D - 30853 Langenhagen, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 160

Name: Wolfgang Roehl           
Title: Manager
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Mine Rescue and Self Rescue Strategies and Systems,
• Emergency (Disaster) Management Systems,
• Use of Breathing Device and
• Fall Protection Systems

Location: Central Mine Rescue Organisation, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, BG RCI. Germany, Clausthal-Zellerfeld
E-mail address: wolfgang.roehl@bgrci.de
Contact Information (mailing address):                

D - 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Berliner Straße 2

Name: Georg Bresser                   
Title: Manager of the mines rescue station of Ruhrkohle AG
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Expert for mines rescue strategies and firefighting in coal mines

Location: Germany, City of Herne
E-mail address: georg.bresser@rag.de
Contact Information (mailing address):                

D - 44623 Herne, Shamrockring 1

Name: Dr.Eng. Piotr Buchwald          
Title: CEO
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Conducting rescue action and preventive works
• Hazard which might occur in underground mines.
• Rescue equipment (rescue communication, equipment for measuring physical parameters of mine air, other rescue equipment used during rescue operations).
• Specialization : Equipment for respiratory protection used in underground mines.

Location: Bytom, Poland
E-mail address: p.buchwald@csrg.bytom.pl,  sekretariat@csrg.bytom.pl 
Contact Information (mailing address):

Central Mines Rescue Station (jsc)
Chorzowska 25 Str.
41-902 Bytom
POLAND

Name: Tomasz Twardokęs           
Title: Eng.
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Rescue equipment (rescue communication, equipment for respiratory protection used in underground mines, equipment for measuring physical parameters of mine air, other rescue equipment used during rescue operations).

Location: Bytom, Poland
E-mail address: laboratorium@csrg.bytom.pl
Contact Information (mailing address):                

Central Mines Rescue Station (jsc)
Chorzowska 25 Str.
41-902 Bytom
POLAND

Name: Christo de Klerk         
Title: General Manager Mines Rescue Services South Africa
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• all areas of mines rescue

Location: South Africa
E-mail address: christo@minesrescue.co.za
Contact Information (mailing address):

P.O. Box 1635
Carletonville
2500
South Africa

Name: Jack Rowland           
Title: Superintendent Technical and Training
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• All areas of mines rescue

Location: South Africa
E-mail address: jack@minesrescue.co.za
Contact Information (mailing address):                

P.O. Box 1635
Carletonville
2500
South Africa

Name: Mr. Alexander Sin        
Title: Head of Department of Mines Rescue Services of Emercom of Russia.
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• All areas of Mine Rescue
  

Location: Moscow, Russia
E-mail address:  uvgsch1@gmail.com
Contact Information (mailing address):

3 Teatralny proezd,
Moscow, Russia, 109012

Name:  Mr. Vasily Evseev          
Title: Chief of analytical and planning section. Department of Mines Rescue Services of Emercom of Russia
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Mines Rescue Services of Emercom of Russia
• statistics
• international mine rescue activity
• international liaison
  

Location: Moscow, Russia
E-mail address: uvgsch1@gmail.com, vv_evseev@mail.ru
Contact Information (mailing address):

3 Teatralny proezd,
Moscow, Russia, 109012

Name:  Barrie Jones           
Title: Chief Operating Officer
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Strategy
• Planning
• Technical mining
• Operational control
• Underground environment
• Mining systems
  

Location: United Kingdom
E-mail address:  Barrie.jones@minesrescue.com
Contact Information (mailing address):

Mines Rescue Service Limited,
Leeming Lane South, Mansfield Woodhouse,
Mansfield, Nottingham,
NG199AQ

Name:  Andrew Watson          
Title: Centre Co-ordinator
Topics/Areas of Mine Rescue Knowledge Expertise:

• Spontaneous Combustion
• Nitrogen injection
• Rescue Competence
• Operational control
• Rescue equipment
• Rescue standards
  

Location: United Kingdom
E-mail address: andrew.watson@minesrescue.com
Contact Information (mailing address):

Mines Rescue Service Limited,
Leeming Lane South, Mansfield Woodhouse,
Mansfield, Nottingham,
NG199AQ