Mine emergency response duties require immediate rescue coordination, medical assistance, and supervised recovery operations under managerial control. On receiving information of an emergency likely to require a rescue team, the manager, or in the manager's absence the principal official present at the surface, must immediately inform the rescue room or rescue stations, summon rescue-trained persons, notify nearby mines if additional assistance is needed, call medical assistance, and send the occurrence report to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator. Rescue and recovery work in a below ground mine must remain under the control, direction and supervision of the manager or principal official, subject to guidance from a specified group in a major emergency.