Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 370
(1) The engineering manager of a mine shall ensure that electrical conductors or other electrical equipment in the mine are
(a) sufficient in size and have adequate current-carrying capacity for the work they are required to perform;
(b) efficiently covered or safeguarded;
(c) installed, worked and maintained in a manner that enables them to reduce, as far as is practicable, to the minimum any danger from accidental shock or fire or over-heating; and
(d) constructed and worked in a manner that ensure that any rise in temperature due to ordinary working does not damage any insulating material employed in the construction or installation of the conductor or equipment.
(2) The engineering manager of a mine shall ensure that in the mine
(a) the size of any copper conductor used except in the case of overhead wires used on the surface, conforms to
(i) the maximum current of electricity which the conductor is required to transmit;
(ii) the class of insulation which it possesses; and
(iii) the dimensions set out in any applicable standards that are prescribed in these Regulations, or as otherwise directed by the Chief Inspector;
(b) except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, conductors, are continuously covered with insulating material;
(c) each conductor is maintained completely insulated from earth, except that
(i) the concentric system with earthed outer conductor may be used if arrangements are made to ensure that any danger from fire or shock is reduced to a minimum; and
(ii) the neutral point of a polyphase system, and the middle wire of a three-wire continuous-current system, may be earthed at one point;
(d) each conductor, which is not an armoured cable and which is intended for a higher voltage than low voltage is protected with a suitable covering in addition to the proper insulation; and
(e) every precaution is taken to prevent electric signal and telephone wires from coming into contact with other electric conductors, whether insulated or not.
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Responsible Institution
36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra
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- Telephone: 030 277 1318
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