Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 173
(1) A manager of a mine shall ensure that in the mine
(a) each filling station underground
(i) is built according to an approved construction;
(ii) is operated according to safe work procedures established by the manager and approved by the Chief Inspector of Mines;
(iii) is constructed of non-flammable material;
(iv) is provided with not less than two means of egress;
(v) is ventilated by a current of air sufficient to dilute and render harmless all gases emitted during filling operations;
(vi) has a concrete floor; and
(vii) is provided with a fire extinguishing system and portable fire extinguishers;
(b) fuel oil is only stored underground in a filling station if that oil is stored in a suitable container or tank that does not leak;
(c) where oil is spilt in a place within the mine, the spilt is oil cleaned up immediately with dry sand or another suitable material, and if in the process of cleaning the oil, any material is contaminated, that material is placed in a suitable container and removed from the mine; and
(d) shall ensure that oil spillage on a diesel engine or diesel unit is immediately cleaned.
(2) A person who is underground in a mine shall not take any fuel oil from a container at a filling station while a diesel engine is running within five meters of that container.
(3) A person in a mine shall not light or use a naked light in a filling station or oil storage compartment and the manager of the mine shall post and maintain suitable notices to this effect at the entrances of that station or compartment.
(4) The manager of a mine shall ensure that
(a) a filling station underground in the mine is equipped with suitable electric lighting and the bulbs or tubes used in the lighting are adequately protected;
(b) a container or tank used for transporting fuel oil underground in the mine is suitably constructed leak proof and provided with positive locking device; and
(c) fuel oil is not delivered underground in the mine through a pipe in a downcast shaft or transported underground in an intake airway, except where that means of delivery or transportation does not constitute a hazard.
(5) The Chief Inspector of Mines may give approval for the means of delivery or transportation referred to in sub-regulation (4)(b).
(6) Despite sub-regulation (4), subject to conditions determined by the Chief Inspector, oil may be transferred in a pipe from
(a) an underground container to an oil mine storage compartment;
(b) an oil storage compartment to a filling station; and
(c) an oil filling station to a trackless vehicle,
if the length of the pipe by which the transfer is done does not exceed thirty metres.
(7) The manager of the mine shall ensure that fuel oil used underground in the mine if it is diesel or used for diesel engines
(a) has a flash point of not less than 60°C; and
(b) has a sulphur content which is not greater than 0.5% by weight; and
(c) does not contain an additive except with the written permission of the Chief Inspector.
(8) The manager of the mine shall ensure that the suitable container or tank referred to in sub-regulation (4) is kept in or adjacent to a filling station in an enclosed storage compartment which
(a) if located beyond ten metres from the entrance of the filling station, is provided with two means of egress;
(b) is constructed of non-flammable materials;
(c) is situated in a well ventilated place, the return air of which is satisfactorily diluted; and
(d) has walls constructed in a manner that
(i) makes the walls form a liquid-tight joint with the floor, and
(ii) openings through the walls are not at a height which is less than that necessary to form a reservoir of greater capacity than the maximum volume of diesel fuel contained in that compartment;
(9) Despite sub-regulation (8), where the container or tank is buried in concrete, or material having no cavities within or adjacent to the filling station, the manager of the mine shall provide the container with a breather pipe loading from the top of that container or tank to a through airway.
(10) The manager of the mine shall ensure that in the mine
(a) a fuel oil storage compartment is provided with a suitable mechanism for extinguishing fires and that the mechanism is positioned immediately adjacent to the air inlet end of that storage compartment;
(b) a fire extinguishing mechanism kept under paragraph (a) is of a type that triggers automatically when fire or smoke is present and is capable of foaming to completely cover the storage tank or the filling Station within seconds of a fire or smoke;
(c) in addition to the type of fire extinguisher required by paragraph(b), a manually operated fire extinguisher is provided; and
(d) a transfer or filling operation that involves fuel oil does not take place within three metres of a live trolley line conductor.
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