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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
sec.200Switching and isolating electricity supply
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### sec.200 Switching and isolating electricity supply
The underground mine manager for an underground mine must ensure the mine has, at each place where persons enter underground from the surface—
a suitable communication method for advising a person to switch off the electricity supply to underground electrical equipment and cables; or
a way to switch off the electricity supply.
The electrical engineering manager must ensure a notice giving instructions for subsection (1) (a) and (b) is placed on the noticeboard—
at the surface of the mine where coal mine workers assemble before going underground; and
in each underground crib room.
(sec.200-ssec.1) The underground mine manager for an underground mine must ensure the mine has, at each place where persons enter underground from the surface— a suitable communication method for advising a person to switch off the electricity supply to underground electrical equipment and cables; or a way to switch off the electricity supply.
(sec.200-ssec.2) The electrical engineering manager must ensure a notice giving instructions for subsection (1) (a) and (b) is placed on the noticeboard— at the surface of the mine where coal mine workers assemble before going underground; and in each underground crib room.
- (a) a suitable communication method for advising a person to switch off the electricity supply to underground electrical equipment and cables; or
- (b) a way to switch off the electricity supply.
- (a) at the surface of the mine where coal mine workers assemble before going underground; and
- (b) in each underground crib room.