Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 90
(1) A manager shall ensure that in the mine,
(a) loose material is scaled or trimmed from the edge of an open pit or a quarry where a worker is required or permitted to be present;
(b) except for berms, equipment, unconsolidated material, rocks and construction materials are kept at least two metres from the edge of the open pit or quarry;
(c) the slope of any pile of unconsolidated material adjacent to the edge of open pit or quarry is at an angle not steeper than the least of
(i) one horizontal to one vertical; and
(ii) the natural angle of repose
(d) a vehicle is not operated or located, and a heavy load is not located near the edge of an open pit mine so as to affect the stability of the walls of the open pit mine.
(2) A manager shall ensure that in the mine
(a) where necessary, appropriate methods and equipment are used to scale down bench faces above the benches on which a person is required to work;
(b) where a bench is or a series of benches are left un-worked in a mining operation,
(i) the height of the bench faces and the width of the benches are of a nature that enables the localised failures of the benches to be contained as far as is practicable in order to avoid a hazard to a person who works deeper in the pit; and
(ii) equipment is available to a person at the benches to enable that person to make the area safe;
(c) where the vertical height of the face exceeds three metres and explosives are used, bench drilling is carried out from the top of the bench;
(d) a face is not drilled or otherwise worked in a manner which will create an overhang of the face, and if unconsolidated rock is mined the face and sides are battered to prevent a collapse;
(e) a face is not undercut by the excavation of a slot at the toe or in any other part of the face;
(f) where a person on foot is required to work at the toe of a face or on the face itself, the face is scaled of loose rock which could fall on that person; and
(g) trees at or near the face or sides of the open pit working, quarry, trench or other similar working is cleared back to a sufficient distance to avoid danger from falls.
(3) Any drilling or firing of toe required in subregulation (2) (a) shall only be carried out on the express authority of the manager of the mine.
(4) Sub-regulation (2) (e) does not prevent a tunnel or an adit being driven into the face.
(5) This regulation does not apply to a mine where the rock is mined or sluiced by jets of water or like material.
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