New South Wales Repealed Regulations New South Wales Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
- Made under the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1982
- As at 23 December 2006
- Reg 433 of 1999
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
1. Name of Regulation
2. Commencement
3. Application
4. Definitions
5. Duty of mine manager to comply or ensure compliance with Regulation
PART 2 - OPERATIONS AND WORKING PRACTICES
Division 1 - General
6. Implementation of a management structure
7. Control of persons underground
7A. Age restriction on employment underground at a mine
8. Inexperienced persons not to work unaccompanied underground
9. Withdrawal of persons from mines
10. Duties of mining officials
11. Cutting or welding underground
12. Continuous miners-driver protection
13. Diesel engines underground
14. Monitoring for diesel exhaust emissions
15. Mining in outburst prone areas
Division 2 - Inspection systems
16. Implementation of mine inspection systems
17. Employees’ representatives to be consulted
18. Copy to be supplied to district inspector and district check inspector
19. Competency and training of personnel
20. Production districts
Division 3 - Deputies
21. Deputies to be in charge of one production district only
22. Deputies to be present whenever mining is taking place
23. Definition of duties
24. Compliance with Act and Regulations
25. Deputies not to engage in other activities
26. Electrical power to be isolated at end of shift
27. Persons entering production districts to report to deputies
Division 4 - Inspections
28. Inspections of production districts
29. Belt conveyor inspections
30. Other inspections
31. Pre-entry inspection after interruption
32. Reading of recording barometer
33. Records and evidence of inspections
Division 5 - Notification of dangerous occurrences
34. Notification of dangerous occurrences
34A. Notifiable incidents
34B. Notification of other incidents
Division 6 - Information and communication
35. Communication of information to deputies and other officials
36. Communication of information to employees
37. Communication between personnel on successive shifts
Division 7 - Working dimensions and breakaway rules
38. Dimensions of pillars
39. Roadways-dimensions and breakaway rules
Division 8 - Inrush
40. Implementation of an inrush prevention system
41. Employees’ representatives to be consulted
42. Copy to be supplied to district inspector and district check inspector
43. Competency and training of personnel
44. Inrush risk assessments
45. Removal or rendering harmless potential inrush sources
46. Inrush control zones
47. Mining in inrush control zones
Division 9 - Support
48. Support rules
49. No entry to improperly supported places
50. Provision of material
51. Additional supports
PART 3 - TRANSPORT
Division 1 - Preliminary
52. Definition
Division 2 - General
53. Provision for the conveyance of persons underground
54. Aid systems where grades excessive
55. Persons being transported to obey instructions of operators
56. Objects not to be carried with passengers
Division 3 - Powered winding systems
57. Definitions
58. Powered winding systems to be approved
Division 4 - Underground transport
59. Application of this Division
60. Transport rules
61. General requirements
62. Operation of transport
63. Roadways and trackworks
64. Trains
65. Appointment of operators
66. Information and training
67. Schemes for the examination or testing of apparatus
68. Controlling hazards arising from inspecting, maintaining, repairing, refuelling and charging transport
69. Diesel fuel
Division 5 - Surface transport
70. Transport rules
PART 4 - VENTILATION
Division 1 - Ventilation control systems
71. Implementation of ventilation control system
72. Employees’ representatives to be consulted
73. Copy to be supplied to district inspector and district check inspector
74. Parts of a mine not to be worked unless sufficiently ventilated
Division 2 - Ventilation officers
75. Appointment and qualifications of ventilation officer
76. Duties of ventilation officer
77. Measurement of concentrations of gases in air
78. Measurements to be recorded
79. Monthly status reports
Division 3 - Regulation of ventilation
80. Regulators
81. Procedure where ventilation inadequate
82. Temperatures in a mine
83. Precautions against dangerous emissions of flammable or noxious gas
84. Ventilation at commencement of hazardous zone
85. Special ventilation required at certain places
Division 4 - Mine ventilation failures
86. Failure of ventilation fans
87. Failure of main ventilation system
88. Deputy’s duties where failure of main ventilation system
89. Restoration of electric power supply
Division 5 - Fan installations
90. Ventilation fans
91. Provision and maintenance of airlocks
92. Provision and maintenance of certain equipment
93. Installation of monitoring system
94. Auxiliary fans
95. Booster fans
Division 6 - Doors, sheets, stoppings and air crossings
96. Provision of fireproof doors
97. Ventilating sheet and non-metallic ventilating ducting
98. Leakage of air through sheets or ducts to be minimised
99. Stoppings and air crossings
Division 7 - Conditions of danger
100. Procedure where dangerous conditions exist by reason of the presence of flammable or noxious gases
101. Procedure where other dangerous conditions exist
PART 5 - EMERGENCY PROVISIONS
102. Implementation of underground emergency systems
103. Employees’ representatives to be consulted
104. Copy to be supplied to district inspector and district check inspector
105. Competency and training of personnel
106. Escape equipment and self rescuers
107. Egress plans
PART 6 - FIRE CONTROL
Division 1 - Fire officers and fire brigades
108. Appointment of fire officers
109. Duties of fire officers
110. Establishment of fire brigades
111. Fire brigades to practise periodically
112. Conformity of fittings on firefighting equipment
Division 2 - Fire station, substations and depots
113. Establishment of a fire station at a mine
114. Establishment of fire substations at a mine
115. Establishment of fire depots at a mine
115A. Protection of belt conveyors
Division 3 - Water supply system, rules and plans
116. Requirements of firefighting water supply system
117. Firefighting plans to be prepared
PART 7 - CONTROLLED MATERIALS
Division 1 - Prohibition of smoking materials
118. Definitions
119. Smoking material not to be taken underground or into designated areas
120. Searching for, and confiscation of, smoking material
121. Refusal to be searched
Division 2 - Use or storage of certain materials underground
122. Prohibition on use of aluminium and light metal alloys
123. Storage and location of flammable material
124. Flammable liquid storage
125. Fire resistant fluids
PART 8 - MONITORING AND DETECTING EQUIPMENT
126. Provision of air monitoring equipment
127. Certain transport to be provided with automatic methane detectors
128. Continuous mining machine to be equipped with automatic methane monitor
129. Automatic methane monitor to be installed on longwall working
130. Installation and use of automatic methane monitors
131. Gas content of air to be monitored and recorded
132. Gas monitoring systems
PART 9 - ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
133. Definitions
134. System to regulate the use of portable electrical apparatus
135. Procedure if gas detected
136. Checking for methane before introduction of power into a mine
137. Provision for cutting off power
138. Separate power supply in sections of mine
139. Explosion protection
140. Requirements for electrical apparatus
141. Requirements for electric cables
142. Earthing of electrical equipment
143. Protection against earth fault
144. Transformers
145. Batteries
146. Facilities for maintenance
147. Means of communication
PART 10 - SHOTFIRING AND EXPLOSIVES
Division 1 - Preliminary
148. Definitions
Division 2 - Shotfiring
149. Electric shotfiring apparatus
150. Appointment of shotfirers
151. Firing of shots by trainee
152. Shotfirer to be employed by mine owner
153. Other persons may perform certain shotfiring functions under supervision
Division 3 - Shotfiring and explosives systems
154. Implementation of shotfiring and explosives systems
155. Employees’ representatives to be consulted
156. Copy to be supplied to district inspector and district check inspector
157. Competency and training of personnel
Division 4 - Explosives
158. Approval of explosives
159. Maximum weight of explosive to be used
160. Records
PART 11 - AIRBORNE DUST
Division 1 - Preliminary
161. Definitions
Division 2 - Working practices
162. Working practices
163. Airborne dust rules
Division 3 - Collection and analysis of dust samples
164. Appointment of persons to collect and analyse samples
165. Collection and analysis of samples
166. Action to be taken following analysis of samples
167. Further samples and analysis
Division 4 - General provisions
168. Prevention of dust entering intake airways
169. Provision of plant to control dust at surface works
PART 12 - COAL DUST EXPLOSION PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION
Division 1 - Preliminary
170. Definitions
Division 2 - General
171. Explosion prevention and suppression generally
172. Implementation of explosion suppression systems
173. Employees’ representatives to be consulted
174. Copy to be supplied to district inspector and district check inspector
175. Periodic audits of explosion suppression systems
176. Maintenance of incombustible content of roadway dust
177. Reduction of levels of incombustible content of roadway dust in certain circumstances
178. Review of mine manager’s determinations of maximum likely gas concentrations
179. Restrictions on use of stone dust
180. Explosion barriers and other explosion suppression measures in roadways
Division 3 - Sampling and testing of roadway dust
181. Appointment of departmental roadway dust examiners
182. Functions of departmental roadway dust examiners
183. Appointment of persons to collect roadway dust samples
184. Person to accompany departmental roadway dust examiner on visits to mine
185. Method of taking roadway dust samples
186. Testing roadway dust samples
PART 13 - SINKING OF SHAFTS
187. Opening of new shafts
188. Guides and guide attachments
189. Scheme for examination and testing of plant
190. Lining
191. Cradles and platforms
192. Banksperson’s duties
193. Engines
194. Signals
195. Loads
196. Persons not to ride on kibbles or buckets
197. Stopping of kibbles or buckets
PART 14 - BELT CONVEYORS
198. Application of Part
199. Use of conveyors in dusty places
200. Requirement for provision of additional airway
201. Reduction of air velocity in underground roadway
202. Installation and operation of belt conveyors
203. Maintenance of belt conveyor systems
204. Cleaning of underground roadways
PART 15 - EXEMPTIONS
205. Exemptions from complying with provisions of this Regulation
SCHEDULE 1