Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 121
A manager shall ensure that in the mine,
(a) the hull of a dredge is maintained in a sound and watertight condition;
(b) buoyancy compartments and ballast compartments are maintained in a manner that ensures the stability of the dredge;
(c) freeboard is maintained to suit the prevailing operating conditions;
(d) suitable means are provided to prevent persons from falling overboard;
(e) warning systems or devices are provided to give a warning when the machinery is about to be started;
(f) automatic electrical or mechanical devices are provided that immediately stop any apparatus from breaking out or raising material from the working face in the event of an overload which might affect the stability of the dredge;
(g) devices are provided that indicate variations in the list and the fore and aft trim of the dredge;
(h) the stability and structure of the dredge are maintained when materials, plant, equipment or other loads are transferred to it or removed from it;
(i) sounding probes are provided for hourly or regular soundings and the readings are recorded in a book that is kept for the purpose by the inspector;
(j) hatchways and other deck openings are fitted with watertight seals, or safeguarded by coamings not less than four hundred millimetres in height unless otherwise approved by the Chief Inspector;
(k) the man-holes connecting the compartments are closed at all times, unless they are ready for inspection;
(l) each member of the crew wears a lifejacket when employed in a boat work or out-boat work;
(m) a dredge at the mine which works close to a bank is provided with a gangway of not less than three-quarters of a metre wide and long enough to reach from the dredge to the bank;
(n) the following safety appliances are provided and maintained in good working order in connection with every dredge used,
(i) a lifebuoy, a light line and a boat hook near the bow of the dredge;
(ii) a lifebuoy, a light line and a boat hook near the sterm of the dredge;
(iii) a boat containing a light line and a boat hook; and
(iv) a looped wire line securely fastened about one hundred and fifty millimetres above the water line around the outside of a pontoon; and
(o) where a dredge at the mine is not entirely covered, the sides of the uncovered portion of the hull are fitted with:
(i) stanchions which are not more than two and a half metres apart; and
(ii) two substantial hand rails or tightly sprung wires or chains, the lower rail, wire or chain not being more than two hundred and fifty millimetres above the deck.
(2) A gangway provided under sub-regulation (1) (m) shall have a substantial hand rail at each side and be secured to the deck of the dredge.
(3) The fittings referred to in this regulation may be
(a) movable; and
(b) moved when taking material on board the dredge but shall be kept in position at all other times.
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