sec.171Safety and health management system for emergency evacuation

### sec.171 Safety and health management system for emergency evacuation An underground mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the emergency evacuation of persons from the mine, or a part of the mine, to a place of safety. The system must provide for the following— the designation of places of safety where persons may assemble in an emergency; the trigger points for evacuating the mine or a part of the mine; periodic exercises to demonstrate the effectiveness of the emergency evacuation system to respond to potential emergencies at the mine. The site senior executive for the mine must consult with workers at the mine in developing the part of the safety and health management system that provides for the trigger points mentioned in subsection (2) (b) (the trigger point provisions ). In establishing the trigger points, the site senior executive must comply with section 10 , other than section 10 (1) (a) , as if— a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the trigger point provisions; and a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers. In this section— trigger point means an indicator that the level of risk for a particular hazard is unacceptable. (sec.171-ssec.1) An underground mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the emergency evacuation of persons from the mine, or a part of the mine, to a place of safety. (sec.171-ssec.2) The system must provide for the following— the designation of places of safety where persons may assemble in an emergency; the trigger points for evacuating the mine or a part of the mine; periodic exercises to demonstrate the effectiveness of the emergency evacuation system to respond to potential emergencies at the mine. (sec.171-ssec.3) The site senior executive for the mine must consult with workers at the mine in developing the part of the safety and health management system that provides for the trigger points mentioned in subsection (2) (b) (the trigger point provisions ). (sec.171-ssec.4) In establishing the trigger points, the site senior executive must comply with section 10 , other than section 10 (1) (a) , as if— a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the trigger point provisions; and a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers. (sec.171-ssec.5) In this section— trigger point means an indicator that the level of risk for a particular hazard is unacceptable. - (a) the designation of places of safety where persons may assemble in an emergency; - (b) the trigger points for evacuating the mine or a part of the mine; - (c) periodic exercises to demonstrate the effectiveness of the emergency evacuation system to respond to potential emergencies at the mine. - (a) a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the trigger point provisions; and - (b) a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers.