CONTENTS
Preface = ⅴ
1. Definitions = 1
2. General duties = 4
2.1. Duties of governments where coal is mined = 4
2.2. Duties of mine operators = 6
2.3. Duties of mine managers and supervisory officals = 7
2.4. Duties of workers = 12
3. Surveyors and plans = 13
3.1. Appointment of duly qualified surveyor = 13
3.2. Duties of mine surveyor = 13
3.3. Plans : general = 13
3.4. Faulty plans = 14
3.5. Abandonment plans = 14
3.6. Small mines = 15
4. Commencement and cessation of mining operations ; posting of notices ; records and notification of accidents, dangerous occurrences and notifiable diseases = 16
4.1. Commencement and cessation of mining operations = 16
4.2. Posting of notices = 17
4.3. Records and returns = 17
4.4. Notification of accidents, dangerous occurrences and noti-fiable diseases = 18
5. Measn of access and egressm inclading winding of persons and material = 20
5.1. Provision of means of access and egress = 20
5.2. Ladderways = 23
5.3. Winding installations at shafts and unwalkable outlets = 24
5.4. Guides = 28
5.5. Sumps = 28
5.6. Keps, safety stops = 29
5.7. Headgear and rope pulleys = 29
5.8. Cages = 29
5.9. Detaching gear = 30
5.10. Suspension gear = 31
5.11. Winding ropes = 32
5.12. Tail rpes = 34
5.13. Duties of winding enginemen at shafts or unwalkable outlets = 35
5.14. Signalling appliances = 36
5.15. Signalling operations = 36
5.16. Man-winding operations = 38
5.17. Shaft sinking or deepening : general = 38
5.18. Winding or hoisting of persons and materials at sinking shafts = 40
5.19. Sinking shafts = 41
5.20. Winding engines or winches at sinking shafts = 41
5.21. Suspension gear at sinking shafts = 42
5.22. Signalling applicances at sinking shafts = 42
5.23. Winding operations at sinking shafts = 42
5.24. Shotfiring at sinking shafts = 44
6. Roads = 45
6.1. Safety of roads = 45
6.2. Height and width of travelling roads = 45
6.3. Fencing or sealling of unfit parts of mine roadways = 45
6.4. Inclined roadways and workplaces = 46
7. Haulage and transport = 47
7.1. Transprot Rules = 47
7.2. Haulage plant inspection and maintenance scheme = 47
7.3. Haulage : general provisions = 48
7.4. Hand and animal haulage = 50
7.5. Mechanical haulage : general provisions = 50
7.6. Trolley locomotive haulage = 52
7.7. Storage-battery locomotives = 54
7.8. Diesel vehicles, including locomotives and trackless vehicles = 55
7.9. Compressed-air locomotives = 57
7.10. Conveyors = 58
7.11. Haulage on inclines = 60
7.12. Face haulage = 61
7.13. Travel and transportation of persons on roads and inclines : general provisions = 62
7.14. Travel on foot = 63
7.15. Mechanical passenger haulage (man-riding) = 64
7.16. Man-riding on conveyors = 67
8. Support = 68
8.1. Duty to secure safety of each working place = 68
8.2. Support Rules = 68
8.3. Setting of supports = 69
8.4. Powered supports : general provisions = 71
8.5. Installation and withdrawal of powered supports = 73
8.6. Provision of roof canopies or cabs = 74
8.7. Precautions where falls of roof or side have occurred = 74
9. Ventilation and firedamp control = 75
9.1. General provisions = 75
9.2. Booster fan control = 79
9.3. Auxiliary fan control = 80
9.4. Air measurements and firedamp determinations = 83
9.5. Withdrawal of persons from a mine or part of a mine endangered by firedamp = 84
9.6. Sudden outbursts of coal, firedamp or other harmful gases = 85
9.7. Firedamp detectors = 86
9.8. Firedamp drainage = 87
10. Precautions against flammable coal dust = 90
10.1. General provisions = 90
10.2. Maintenance of safe, incombustible-dust conditions along mine roadways = 90
10.3. Means of arresting explosions = 91
11. Precautions against respirable dust = 93
11.1. Prevention and suppression of respirable dust = 93
11.2. Sampling of respirable dust = 93
11.3. Allowable maximum respirable dust concentrations = 94
11.4. Provision of dust respirators = 95
11.5. Medical supervision = 95
11.6. Provision for small mines = 95
12. Miners' lamps, flame safety lamps and general lighting = 97
12.1. Miners' lamps = 97
12.2. Maintenacne of lighting performance = 98
12.3. Provision of general lighting = 98
12.4. Provision of coal-face mains lighting = 99
12.5. Places which should be whitewashed = 99
13. Mine fires = 100
13.1. General provisions = 100
13.2. Fireproof construction = 101
13.3. Fire-fighting equipment = 101
13.4. Storage of flammable materials = 102
13.5. Precautions against spontaneous combustion of coal = 103
13.6. Procedure in case of fire = 104
13.7. Procedure for reopening districts which have been sealed = 105
14. Precantions against inrushes of water, gas or other material which flows when wet = 106
14.1. General provisions = 106
14.2. Working under the sea or other body of water = 107
14.3. Precautions where salt deposits are present = 107
15. Electricity = 109
15.1. General provisions = 109
15.2. Electrical systems = 111
15.3. Additional precautions against firedamp and coal-dust explosions = 113
15.4. Operating regulations = 114
15.5. Additional measures = 114
16. Machinery and plant = 115
16.1. General provisions = 115
16.2. Fencing of machinery = 116
16.3. Internal combustion engines = 117
16.4. Boiler and steam plant = 117
16.5. Compressed-air equipment = 118
16.6. Cranes and lifting gear = 119
17. Explosives and shotfiring = 120
17.1. General provisions for explosives = 120
17.2. Conveyance of explosives and detonators to the magazine = 121
17.3. Issue, return and recording of explosives and detonators = 122
17.4. Keeping of explosives during the shift = 124
17.5. General provisions for shotflring = 125
17.6. Equipment of a shotfirer = 125
17.7. Charging, tamping and firing = 126
17.8. Water-infusion shotfiring = 127
17.9. Protection against flying fragments = 127
17.10. Procedure after shotfiring = 128
17.11. Misfired shots = 129
17.12. Miscellaneous provisions for shotfiring = 129
17.13. Special provisions for shotfiring in stone drifts = 130
17.14. Additional precautions during shotfiring = 131
18. First aid = 134
18.1. Surface organisation = 134
18.2. Underground organisation = 136
18.3. Transport of cases of accident or sickness = 137
18.4. Inspection = 138
18.5. Training and retraining = 138
18.6. Reporting of injuries = 139
19. Mines rescue = 140
19.1. General organisation = 140
19.2. Selection of rescue workers = 140
19.3. Instruction and practice = 141
19.4. Rescur apparatus and equipment = 142
19.5. Conduct of mine rescue work = 143
20. surface buildings, structures and means of access = 145
20.1. Safety of buildings = 145
20.2. Safe means of access = 145
21. Tips, dams and lagoons = 146
21.1. Tips = 146
21.2. Dams and lagoons = 147
21.3. Reporting of dangerous occurrences = 147
22. Surface railway sidings and other vehicular traffic = 148
22.1. Railway sidings = 148
22.2. Other Vehicular traffic = 148
23. Training = 149
23.1. General requirement = 149
23.2. Specific traning requirements = 149
24. Miscellaneous = 151
24.1. General duties and condut = 151
24.2. Carrying of matches, smokers materials and lighters, and search for contraband = 152
24.3. Medical examinations = 153
24.4. Welfare facilities = 154
24.5. Noise and vibration = 154
24.6. Safety and health committees = 155
24.7. Other matters = 156
25. Regulations relating to opencast coal mines = 159
Appendix A : ILO Conventions, Recommendations, codes of practice and guides = 163
Appendix B : List of publications on the prevention and control of mine fires supplementing the provisions of Chapter 13, "Mine fires" = 165
Index = 167
