sec.266Safety and health management system for permanent underground workshops

### sec.266 Safety and health management system for permanent underground workshops An underground mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the following for each permanent underground workshop at the mine— constructing, maintaining and operating the workshop; carrying out hot work in the workshop. The system must provide for the following— restricting the workshop location to a NERZ; stopping work and quenching hot material if the general body concentration of methane in the workshop exceeds 0.5%. The system must also provide for a person with a first or second class, or deputy’s, certificate of competency to— inspect the workshop for flammable gas before hot work is started in the workshop; and carry out any other inspections identified as necessary under a risk assessment. Nothing in this section prevents another person also inspecting the workshop for methane while hot work is being carried out in the workshop. (sec.266-ssec.1) An underground mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the following for each permanent underground workshop at the mine— constructing, maintaining and operating the workshop; carrying out hot work in the workshop. (sec.266-ssec.2) The system must provide for the following— restricting the workshop location to a NERZ; stopping work and quenching hot material if the general body concentration of methane in the workshop exceeds 0.5%. (sec.266-ssec.3) The system must also provide for a person with a first or second class, or deputy’s, certificate of competency to— inspect the workshop for flammable gas before hot work is started in the workshop; and carry out any other inspections identified as necessary under a risk assessment. (sec.266-ssec.4) Nothing in this section prevents another person also inspecting the workshop for methane while hot work is being carried out in the workshop. - (a) constructing, maintaining and operating the workshop; - (b) carrying out hot work in the workshop. - (a) restricting the workshop location to a NERZ; - (b) stopping work and quenching hot material if the general body concentration of methane in the workshop exceeds 0.5%. - (a) inspect the workshop for flammable gas before hot work is started in the workshop; and - (b) carry out any other inspections identified as necessary under a risk assessment.