Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 211
(1) A person in an underground mine shall not use or cause or permit a subordinate to use any hand drill, moil or a similar tool except in sampling or cutting of hitches unless water is applied or a wet swab is used around the drill at the collar of the hole so as to reduce dust.
(2) Except where the nature of the ground is likely to make wetting dangerous,
(a) a person shall not commence or continue to drill any hole underground in a mine or cause or permit the commencement or continuation of drilling unless the floor, roof, sides, other surfaces, and broken rock of the working place, have been thoroughly wetted and kept wet, to a distance of at least ten metres;
(b) a person shall not, in an underground working of a mine,
(i) move a broken rock or ground that is likely to generate dust, or
(ii) cause or allow broken rock or ground to be moved if the rock or ground is in a dusty condition
unless the broken rock or ground and the floor, roof, sides, packs and other surfaces of the working place are effectively wetted to a distance of at least ten metres in either direction from the working place so as to prevent the escape of dust into the air during the removal; and
(c) a person who is underground in a mine shall not perform or cause or permit to be performed work of any kind that creates dust unless
(i) the floor, roof and sides, packs and other surfaces of the working place have been effectively wetted and kept wet to a distance of at least ten metres in either direction,
(ii) the working place is naturally sufficiently wet to render the formation of dust impossible, or
(iii) the working place is of a nature that might make wetting dangerous.
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