where is minning safety

Source excerpt

## Emergency warning system 703.1 (1) An employer must establish and implement an emergency warning system that alerts workers of an emergency that requires workers to be promptly evacuated. 703.1 (2) An employer must ensure the emergency warning system required by subsection (1) is inspected and tested at reasonably practicable intervals to ensure it is operating properly. AR 242/2022 s123 ## Evacuation 703.2 An employer must ensure that - (a) a mock exercise for evacuation of an underground mine is conducted with all workers at least annually, and - (b) a report is made of the exercise, including identifying any remedial actions undertaken to address any deficiencies. AR 242/2022 s123 ## Emergency response station 703.3 (1) An employer must establish, maintain and operate an emergency response station and provide facilities for conducting rescue operations and other emergency work. 703.3 (2) An employer must ensure that sufficient quantities of rescue equipment and personal protective equipment are available to workers for immediate use at an emergency response station. AR 242/2022 s123 ## Respiratory protective equipment for emergency escape 703.4 (1) An employer must ensure that - (a) each worker who goes underground is provided with self-rescue personal protective equipment that complies with Part 18 and is rated at a minimum of one hour, - (b) each worker is in possession of self-rescue personal protective equipment at all times when underground, and - (c) additional self-rescue personal protective equipment is stored and located at strategic places underground between the most distant working face and the exits. ## 703.4 (2) An employer must ensure that each worker - (a) receives training in the proper procedures for the use, donning and switch-over of self-rescue personal protective equipment during an emergency, and - (b) is aware of the locations of the additional self-rescue personal protective equipment referred to in subsection (1)(c). …

Source excerpt

## Working alone where coal is mined - 687 (1) An employer must ensure that no worker works alone at a working face where coal is mined. - 687 (2) Despite subsection (1), an employer may allow a worker who is sampling, testing or inspecting at a working face where coal is mined to work alone. AR 191/2021 s687;242/2022 ## 688 Repealed AR 242/2022 s115. ## Unsafe areas 689 An employer must ensure that entrances to any area determined to be unsafe are signed at sufficient distances and fenced, cordoned or taped off to prevent workers from entering the area. AR 191/2021 s689;242/2022 ## Work shift report and inspection 690 (1) During each work shift, an employer must ensure that a report is made and updated that includes - (a) the locations of any workers working underground at any given time, - (b) the times at which each worker checked in and out of the underground mine, - (c) the name of each worker who remains in the underground mine beyond the end of the work shift, and - (d) any hazards identified during the work shift. 690 (2) An employer must ensure that - (a) underground work areas are inspected before each work shift, and - (b) the report required in subsection (1) in respect of a work shift is - (i) updated to include the results of an inspection under clause (a), and - (ii) reviewed by the supervisor at the beginning of the subsequent work shift. AR 191/2021 s690;242/2022 691 and 692 Repealed AR 242/2022 s117. ## Fire Prevention ## Ignition source restricted 693 (1) An employer must ensure a worker does not bring an ignition source into an underground mine. 693 (2) A worker must not bring an ignition source into an underground mine. 693 (3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), a worker may bring an ignition source into an underground mine if it is required to perform the work and authorized by an employer. AR 191/2021 s693;242/2022

Source excerpt

## Gas and Dust Control ## Gas inspections 730 (1) An employer must ensure that, when workers are present underground, a competent worker - (a) is located underground, - (b) carries at all times a gas testing device for methane, carbon monoxide and oxygen, - (c) within 4 hours of each shift commencing work, uses the device referred to in clause (b) to inspect that part of the underground mine being worked, or intended to be worked, and all related roadways, and - (d) inspects for gas at the working face of every work area, at the edge of the gob, in roof cavities and anywhere else that gas may accumulate, at reasonably practicable intervals. 730 (2) An employer must ensure that the competent worker referred to in subsection (1) makes a report on the conditions of the areas inspected under subsection (1) and provides that report to the employer and a supervisor as soon as possible. AR 191/2021 s730;242/2022 ## Flammable gas levels - 731 Despite section 162, an employer must ensure that - (a) a bleeder system is designed, constructed, installed and operated such that the flammable or combustible gas level does not exceed 40 percent of the lower explosive limit, - (b) workers are withdrawn from a work area if the amount of flammable or combustible gas in the air exceeds 40 percent of the lower explosive limit, - (c) the supply of electrical power is automatically cut off if the amount of flammable or combustible gas in the air exceeds 25 percent of the lower explosive limit, and - (d) workers do not operate diesel engines if the amount of flammable or combustible gas in the air exceeds 20 percent of the lower explosive limit. AR 191/2021 s731;242/2022 ## Diesel vehicle roads 732 (1) If a diesel vehicle is operated in an underground mine, an employer must ensure that a competent worker tests the air flow and the percentage of flammable or combustible gas present in the air - (a) at least once each week, and - (b) whenever an alteration is made in the quantity…

Source excerpt

## Part 36 Mining Division 1 General ## Application 531 This Part applies to mines and mine sites. ## Building safety 532 An employer must ensure that a processing plant, other facility or building is - (a) kept as free as is reasonably practicable of dust, and - (b) cleaned at reasonably practicable intervals to prevent any dust from becoming a hazard to workers. AR 191/2021 s532;242/2022 ## Mine plan 533 (1) An employer must make and maintain a mine plan that includes - (a) the workings surveyed, current to within 3 months of the previous survey, - (b) extensions to the workings sketched in, current to within one month of the previous survey, - (c) the general direction and inclination of the strata and thickness of the bed or strata being worked, - (d) the legal description of the land making up the mine and mine site, - (e) any right of way on the land for a pipeline or other utility corridor, and - (f) the locations of exploration drill holes drilled for any purpose. 533 (2) An employer must ensure that the mine plan is reviewed and updated at reasonably practicable intervals. AR 191/2021 s533;242/2022 ## Specifications or procedures 533.1 Where this Part requires specifications or procedures, or both, certified by a professional engineer, an employer must ensure that those specifications or procedures, or both, are implemented and followed. AR 242/2022 s72 ## Reports 534 (1) An employer must ensure that a report is made for any training, inspection, test, examination, review, maintenance, installation, re-installation, repairs, modification or monitoring required by this Part.

Source excerpt

## Explosion Control ## Explosion barriers 745 (1) An employer must develop an explosion prevention plan to specifications certified by a professional engineer that includes the measures to be taken for the design, erection, location and maintenance of an explosion barrier. 745 (2) An employer must ensure that the condition and position of the explosion barriers required by subsection (1) are inspected by a competent person at reasonably practicable intervals. AR 191/2021 s745;242/2022 - 746 Repealed AR 242/2022 s147. ## Spacing between adjoining mining operations - 747 Where interactions between adjoining underground mines may compromise the structural integrity of the underground mines or create other hazards to workers, any employer at such an adjoining underground mine must ensure - (a) an adequate distance is maintained between adjoining underground mines, or - (b) procedures are developed in accordance with specifications certified by a professional engineer that include the measures to be taken to protect the health and safety of workers at adjoining underground mines. AR 191/2021 s747;242/2022 ## Drill holes 748 An employer must ensure that underground mines are not operated within 100 metres of a hole drilled or being drilled for oil or gas. AR 191/2021 s748;242/2022 ## Water or gas - 749 The employer must ensure that the working face is not advanced to within 50 metres of the surface or to within 100 metres horizontally of - (a) a projection onto the working face of a place that is likely to contain a dangerous accumulation of water or gas, - (b) inactive workings that have not been examined and found free from accumulations of water or gas, or - (c) the seam outcrop or subcrop. ## Shaft access and hoisting equipment - 749.1 An employer must ensure that shaft access and mine hoisting equipment, including rope haulage, is designed, constructed and installed to and otherwise meets specifications certified by a professional engineer. AR 191/20…

Source excerpt

## Division 2 Repealed AR 242/2022 s106. ## Division 3 Underground Mines ## Application 680 This Division applies to underground mines. ## Mine Workers ## Supervision 683 An employer must ensure that workers working underground are supervised by a supervisor who is an underground mine manager or an underground mine foreman. AR 191/2021 s683;242/2022 ## 684 Repealed AR 242/2022 s112. ## Underground mine manager 685 (1) An employer must appoint an underground mine manager to supervise workers and oversee daily activities at a mine or mine site. 685 (2) An employer may appoint an underground mine foreman as a temporary underground mine manager. AR 191/2021 s685;242/2022 ## Combined operations 686 An employer must ensure that surface mining operations and underground mining operations are coordinated if - (a) surface mining operations and underground mining operations take place simultaneously, and - (b) those operations are in such proximity that mining in one may affect the health and safety of workers in the other. AR 191/2021 s686;242/2022 AR 191/2021 s680;242/2022 ## Annual plan - 681 An employer must ensure that a mine plan required by section 533 is certified by a professional engineer, is submitted to a Director before the last day in September in each year and includes - (a) a proposed underground operations working plan for the next year of operation, - (b) a ventilation plan for the next year of operation, and - (c) the locations of all firefighting pipelines, water control valves, fire stations and fire cabinets. AR 191/2021 s681;242/2022 - 682 Repealed AR 242/2022 s110.