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Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 65
65 (1) Every surface hoist shall meet the following standards: (a) the engine shall be installed on a concrete or other rigid foundation; (b) hoisting drums on which the rope is coiled shall be provided with flanges or horns and, where a hoisting drum is conical, with such other safety devices as will prevent the rope from slipping; (c) the hoist shall be equipped with a device that (i) clearly indicates to the hoist operator the location of the cage or trip, and (ii) where a trip may be used on more than one track, is of a type that indicates on which track the trip is being hoisted; (d) the hoist shall be equipped with a braking system that (i) stops cages or trips within the deceleration rates set out in the procedures referred to in subsection 59(1) for both the descending and ascending modes, (ii) is automatically applied in the event of a power failure, and (iii) may be applied by the hoist operator in the event of an emergency; (e) the hoist shall be equipped with an overwind preventor and a speed controller that shut off the power and apply the braking system when the cage or trip travels (i) beyond the top or bottom of the run, or (ii) at a speed in excess of the maximum speed for the cage or trip set out in the procedures referred to in subsection 59(1); (f) unless the overwind preventor and speed controller referred to in paragraph (e) are in full and fixed engagement with the hoisting engine, the overwind preventor and speed controller shall be (i) designed to be fully engaged automatically or by the hoist operator whenever persons are to be transported, and (ii) provided with an automatic device that indicates to the hoist operator and all persons responsible for the loading of the cage or trip that the overwind preventor and speed controller have been fully engaged; and (g) where used for transporting persons, the hoist shall be equipped with at least two brakes that meet the requirements of subparagraphs (d)(i) to (iii). (2) Every device referred to in paragraph (1)(c) shall be tested for effective functioning after every adjustment to the length of the hoist rope.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 66
66 (1) During each shift, a hoist operator shall test the surface hoist, including the safety devices connected to it. (2) Where tests are performed in accordance with subsection (1), the hoist operator shall test (a) the overwind preventor to verify that the cage or trip does not travel more than 0.6 m past the top or the bottom of the run; and (b) the speed controller with the cage midway in the shaft or with the trip part of the way along the run. (3) Subject to subsection (4), where a surface hoist has not been operated for more than four hours, before persons are transported on that hoist, a trial wind shall be carried out over the lesser of (a) the complete run of the cage or trip, or (b) 400 m. (4) Except in the case of an emergency, where a surface hoist has not been operated for any period because of an accident or defect, a full trial wind shall be carried out before lowering or hoisting is resumed. (5) A qualified person shall test (a) at least once every 24 hours, the overwind preventor, speed controller and other safety devices of a surface hoist that is used only for transporting persons; (b) at least once every week, the overwind preventor, speed controller and other safety devices of a surface hoist that is used for hoisting materials; and (c) at least once every month, the braking system of every surface hoist, including the emergency brake, overwind preventor, speed controller, other safety devices and the devices referred to in paragraph 65(1)(c) and subparagraph 65(1)(f)(ii). (6) The hoist operator or qualified person who carries out the tests referred to in subsections (1) to (5) shall make a record of those tests in a book kept for that purpose.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 67
67 At least once every 24 hours, a mine mechanic shall (a) inspect the external parts of all surface hoists, including cages, mine cars, tackling equipment, head gear, ropes, sockets, rope paths and couplings, that are in use in the coal mine; and (b) make a record of the inspection referred to in paragraph (a) in a book kept for that purpose.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 68
68 Every hoist rope shall be made of steel and have a factor of safety of not less than six.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 69
69 (1) No hoist rope shall be placed in service unless it has been tested for breaking strength by a rope-testing laboratory. (2) The employer shall keep, for every hoist rope, every test certificate issued in respect of the rope by a rope-testing laboratory and a certificate from the manufacturer of the rope. (3) The certificates referred to in subsection (2) shall contain the following information in respect of the hoist rope: (a) the name and address of the manufacturer; (b) the manufacturer’s rope number; (c) the date of manufacture; (d) the diameter, expressed in millimetres; (e) the mass per unit length, expressed in kilograms per metre; (f) the number of strands; (g) the class of core; (h) the percentage by mass of lubricant in the core; (i) the trade name of the interior rope lubricant; (j) the number of wires in a strand; (k) the diameter of the wires, expressed in millimetres; (l) the breaking strength of steel from which the wire is made, expressed in kilopascals; (m) the results of the standard torsion test of the wires; (n) the actual breaking strength; and (o) the extension of a test piece when tested to destruction. (4) For every hoist rope, the following information shall be recorded in a record book: (a) the name of the company from which the rope was purchased; (b) the date of purchase; (c) the manufacturer’s rope number; (d) the date on which the rope is installed in or removed from a particular location; (e) the location referred to in paragraph (d); (f) the mass of the cage or mine car in respect of which the rope is installed; (g) the maximum load for which the rope is designed; (h) the maximum length of rope in service below the sheave; (i) the maximum mass of rope in service below the sheave; (j) the factor of safety of the rope in each location where it is installed; (k) the dates on which rope samples are taken; (l) the dates and results of tests for breaking strength; and (m) where applicable, the date of permanent removal from service and the reasons therefor. (5) The employer shall keep the record book referred to in subsection (4) at the coal mine in which the rope is in service (a) during the period in which the rope is in service; and (b) during the five-year period immediately following the day on which the rope is permanently removed from service.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 70
70 No spliced hoist rope, other than an endless hoist rope, shall be used for transporting persons.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 71
71 (1) Where a cage or trip is at its lowest point on the run, the drum shall have remaining on it at least five turns of hoist rope. (2) The diameter of a hoist rope sheave shall be not less than (a) for a rope 25 mm or more in diameter, 80 times the rope diameter; and (b) for a rope less than 25 mm in diameter, 60 times the rope diameter. (3) Every hoist rope sheave shall be machined to fit the rope that is used on it.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 72
72 No direct hoist rope shall be reversed on the drum of a hoist.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 73
73 (1) Every hoist rope shall be kept lubricated. (2) The lubricant that is used on a hoist rope shall be (a) suitable for the conditions under which the rope is used; and (b) used in accordance with the recommendations of the manufacturer of the rope.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 74
74 (1) A rope sample shall be taken at least once every month from every hoist rope in service in a coal mine, except where the rope is used in (a) an endless hoist rope system; or (b) an auxiliary hoist that is used for localized movement of material and for which no rope sample is required by the plans referred to in subsection 52(1). (2) The rope sample referred to in subsection (1) shall consist of at least 4 m of hoist rope cut from the end at which the hoist rope is attached to the cage or trip. (3) A test piece of the rope sample referred to in subsection (1) shall be (a) cut from the end of the rope sample that was attached to the cage or trip; (b) at least 2 m in length; and (c) tested by a rope-testing laboratory. (4) The ends of the rope sample referred to in subsection (1) and of the test piece referred to in subsection (3) shall be bound with soft wire to prevent them from unravelling.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 75
75 Endless hoist ropes that are more than 19 mm in diameter or that are used to transport persons on grades exceeding 4 per cent shall be non-destructively tested at least once every three months.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 76
76 A hoist rope shall be removed from service where (a) the extension of a test piece of the rope, when tested to destruction, has decreased to less than 60 per cent of its original extension; (b) the number of broken wires in any section of the rope that is equal to the length of one lay of the rope exceeds six; (c) marked corrosion of the rope has occurred; (d) the core of the rope is ineffectually lubricated; or (e) the breaking strength of the rope has decreased to 85 per cent of the breaking strength for the rope set out in the manufacturer’s certificate referred to in subsection 69(2).
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 77
77 (1) Detaching hooks of a hoist shall be (a) installed between the socket and safety chains on all cages; and (b) cleaned, refitted and tested by a qualified person at least once every month. (2) The detaching plate of a hoist shall be (a) placed as high as is practicable above the decking level; (b) capable of holding the mass of the cage if overwinding occurs; and (c) tested once every month by a qualified person using calipers or gauges. (3) The clearance between the head sheave and the top of a cage that is stopped at the top of the run shall be not less than 5 m. (4) The qualified person referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (2)(c) shall record the results of the tests in a hoisting machinery record book kept for that purpose.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 78
78 (1) All hoist ropes, other than endless hoist ropes, shall be connected to their loads by means of a socket that is designed and installed in accordance with good engineering practice. (2) Hoist ropes shall, at least once every month, be fitted with new sockets or sockets that have been cleaned and tested. (3) The drum end of a hoist rope shall be fastened to the drum by not less than two clamps.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 79
79 (1) The connecting attachments between a newly installed or newly cut hoist rope and a cage or trip and between the hoist rope and the drum shall be inspected by a qualified person before the hoist is used. (2) No hoist rope referred to in subsection (1) shall be used for the transportation of persons in a shaft unless two trial winds have been made with the cage or trip loaded to the maximum authorized load of the hoist. (3) The trial winds referred to in subsection (2) shall be made over the lesser of (a) the complete run of the cage or trip, or (b) 1 500 m.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 80
80 (1) The qualified person referred to in subsection 79(1) shall record the results of the inspection of the connecting attachments in the hoisting machinery record book referred to in subsection 77(4). (2) The results of the trial winds referred to in subsection 79(2) shall be recorded by the hoist operator in a hoist operator’s record book kept for that purpose.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 81
81 Every mine car shall be so constructed that any coupling, shackle pin or safety chain is visible for inspection.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 82
82 Effective on October 1, 1993, every mine car shall have a name-plate that indicates (a) the manufacturer’s name and address; (b) the tare weight of the fitted mine car; (c) the maximum load for which the mine car is designed, expressed (i) in the case of a material car, in tonnes, and (ii) in the case of a man car, in number of persons, calculated on the basis of 81.7 kg per person; (d) the maximum speed for which the mine car is designed, expressed in metres per second; and (e) the month and year of manufacture.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 83
83 (1) Every man car shall be equipped with seats that are secured to the body of the man car. (2) At least one man car that is part of a trip of man cars shall be designed to transport an injured person on a stretcher. (3) The first man car of a trip shall be secured by a primary fastening arrangement that is (a) in the case of a direct hoist rope system, a rope socket; (b) in the case of an endless hoist rope system, a rope clamp; and (c) in the case of a locomotive system, a coupling.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 84
84 (1) Where a man car is used on a gradient exceeding 4 per cent, it shall, for the purpose of coupling it with other mine cars, be equipped with (a) three continuous draw-bars made of steel; or (b) a single draw-bar composite of rolled steel sections and rolled steel plate. (2) The continuous draw-bars referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall be (a) extended the full length of the man car; (b) securely bolted to the floor and base sills of the man car; and (c) visible for inspection. (3) Where man cars of a trip are used on a gradient exceeding 4 per cent, the man cars shall be equipped with safety brakes that are (a) interconnected and operated simultaneously with the safety brakes of the other man cars of the trip; (b) manually operable from at least one man car of the trip; (c) automatically operable by an overspeed governor on one of the man cars of the trip in the event of a 20 per cent overspeed; (d) capable of stopping the maximum load of the man car at the maximum gradient of the roadway at the maximum overspeed governor setting; and (e) of a fail-safe design.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 85
85 (1) Where man cars that are equipped with three continuous draw-bars are adjacent in a trip, they shall be connected to each other by (a) couplings at the centre draw-bar; and (b) safety chains at the two side draw-bars. (2) Where man cars that are equipped with a single draw-bar are adjacent in a trip, they shall be connected to each other by (a) couplings at each end of the draw-bars; and (b) safety chains at two attachments on the chassis of each adjacent man car. (3) The safety chains referred to in paragraphs (1)(b) and (2)(b) shall be slack during normal operation.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 86
86 Effective on October 1, 1993, (a) every man car shall be equipped with a canopy; and (b) the first man car of a trip on a direct hoist rope system shall be secured, in addition to the primary fastening arrangement referred to in paragraph 83(3)(a), by a secondary fastening arrangement that is capable of holding at least 200 per cent of the maximum tensile load of the trip in the event of a failure of the primary fastening arrangement.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 87
87 Effective on October 1, 1993, where material cars of a trip are used on a gradient exceeding 4 per cent, (a) material cars that are adjacent in the trip shall be connected by (i) in the case of a material car that is equipped with three continuous draw-bars, safety chains at the two side draw-bars, and (ii) in the case of a material car that is equipped with a single draw-bar composite, safety chains at two attachments on the chassis of each adjacent mine car; and (b) at least one material car of the trip shall be equipped with brakes that are (i) capable of stopping the trip in the event of a runaway, (ii) manually operable, (iii) automatically operable by a speed governor in the event of a 20 per cent overspeed, and (iv) of a fail-safe design.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 88
88 (1) No single-link chain, other than a coupling attached to a cage or mine car, shall be installed on any equipment that is used for transporting persons. (2) Subject to subsection 89(2), the couplings of a cage or mine car shall be used only in conjunction with safety chains or safety ropes that are of sufficient strength to hold the maximum load for which the cage or mine car is designed in the event that the coupling chain breaks. (3) Every draw-bar of a three-draw-bar man car and every coupling, pin, safety chain, rope clamp and other tackling equipment that is used on a cage or mine car shall be made of steel. (4) The steel referred to in subsection (3) shall be (a) certified by its manufacturer not to require heat treatment to remove stresses that are due to cold working; or (b) heat treated at least once every six months in accordance with the recommendations of the manufacturer. (5) The employer shall keep a record of the heat treatment referred to in paragraph (4)(b) at the coal mine in which the equipment that is heat treated is used. (6) No draw-bar, coupling, pin, safety chain, rope clamp or other tackling equipment shall be used on a cage or mine car unless (a) its design has been tested by the manufacturer to withstand a proof load of 40 per cent of its breaking strength without any permanent set; (b) a certificate of the test referred to in paragraph (a) has been provided to the employer by the manufacturer; and (c) the equipment has been legibly and permanently marked to identify it with the manufacturer’s certificate.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 89
89 (1) Couplings, pins and rope clamps shall be designed with a factor of safety of not less than six. (2) Safety chains and safety ropes shall be designed with a factor of safety of not less than two. (3) Draw-bars that are manufactured from steel that is certified by the manufacturer not to require heat treatment to remove stresses that are due to cold working shall be designed with a factor of safety of not less than six. (4) Draw-bars that are manufactured from steel that requires heat treatment every six months to remove stresses that are due to cold working and draw-bars that are made of rolled steel sections and plates shall be designed with a factor of safety of not less than 10. (5) Subsections (1) to (4) apply on and after October 1, 1993.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 90
90 (1) Every trip shall be under the supervision of a qualified person who shall (a) verify that all couplings and safety chains are secured to the mine cars; (b) verify that all persons are properly seated; (c) verify that all loads are secured; (d) signal for the trip to stop or start; and (e) operate track switches and sampsons. (2) No person shall get into or out of a trip while it is in motion. (3) Before a mine car is detached from its rope or locomotive and is parked on an incline, its wheels shall be sampsoned and braked or shall be spragged.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 91
91 (1) At least once every day of operation of a coal mine, a qualified person shall inspect the couplings, pins, safety chains, draw-gear, rope clamps and safety brakes of all mine cars in use on gradients exceeding four per cent. (2) At least once every month, a qualified person shall test the overspeed governor referred to in paragraph 84(3)(c). (3) At least once every three months, a qualified person shall carry out a dynamic test on the safety brake system referred to in subsection 84(3). (4) The qualified person referred to in subsections (1) to (3) shall make a record of each inspection and test carried out by the person in a book kept for that purpose.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 92
92 At least once every three months, the position of the clamps that attach a trip to the hoist rope on an endless hoist rope system shall be moved to a new point of attachment that is at a distance of not less than the maximum length of the trip, and each movement of the position shall be made in the same direction along the hoist rope.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 93
93 Every opening to a vertical shaft or to an airway that is used only for ventilation shall be fenced.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 94
94 Every vertical shaft that is a working shaft shall be provided with stops or gates that prevent a cage or mine car from being pushed unintentionally beyond the landings of the shaft.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 95
95 All landings of vertical shafts that are working shafts shall be lighted with permanent light fixtures.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 96
96 (1) Every working shaft shall be provided with a means of communication between the top, bottom and landings of the shaft, and, where applicable, with the hoist operator. (2) The mine manager shall establish a code of signals for the purposes of subsection (1). (3) The employer shall post a copy of the code referred to in subsection (2) in a conspicuous place at all locations where a means of communication is provided.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 97
97 Where a cage or mine car in a vertical shaft is used for transporting persons and is also used for transporting materials, the cage or mine car shall not be used for transporting persons at the same time as materials are being transported.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 98
98 (1) A cage or mine car that is used for transporting persons shall be in the charge of a qualified person. (2) Subject to subsection (3), no person shall be transported underground at a speed greater than 6 m/s unless (a) the hoisting engine, including the safety devices connected thereto, is designed for speeds greater than 6 m/s; and (b) where rail tracks are used, the rail track is ballasted, graded and fish-plated and is designed for mine cars travelling at speeds greater than 6 m/s. (3) No person shall be transported underground at a speed greater than the speed for which the cage or mine car is designed.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 99
99 Every diesel engine that is used underground shall be fitted with an inlet and exhaust-flame trap.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 100
100 (1) The mine manager shall prepare in writing and implement safe procedures for the operation of diesel locomotives and internal combustion engines underground. (2) The procedures referred to in subsection (1) shall specify (a) the location and method of refuelling the locomotives and engines; (b) that no operator of a diesel engine shall leave it unattended while the engine is running; and (c) that there shall always be an adequate supply of dry sand to enable the diesel locomotive to complete any journey that it begins.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 101
101 The employer shall submit a copy of the procedures referred to in subsection 100(1) and any changes in those procedures to the Coal Mining Safety Commission for approval at least 30 days before the implementation of the procedures or changed procedures.
Coal Mining Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 102
102 No person shall operate a diesel locomotive in any underground portion of a coal mine unless the person (a) has at least one year’s experience in a coal mine of which at least 90 days have been spent in work associated with the undergound operation of a diesel locomotive; and (b) is trained and authorized to operate the diesel locomotive in that portion of the coal mine.