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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
sec.268Controls and safety devices for conveyances
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### sec.268 Controls and safety devices for conveyances
The site senior executive for an underground mine must ensure the headframe, or tower, of a shaft used for winding at the mine contains the following—
apparatus that is designed and installed so a conveyance or counterweight will stop safely if the conveyance is overwound;
safety devices that are designed and installed so a conveyance or counterweight that has been brought to rest, or detached from the winding rope, is prevented from falling down the shaft;
a way of egress to enable persons to safely leave an overwound conveyance.
The site senior executive must ensure the shaft contains guides for each conveyance in the shaft if there is a possibility of uncontrolled contact between—
the conveyances; or
a conveyance and equipment installed in the shaft; or
a conveyance and the shaft side.
The site senior executive must ensure each winder has—
if the conveyance has doors—a device preventing the conveyance moving when the doors are not closed correctly; and
suspension equipment capable of withstanding stall conditions, or a hook, capable of detaching the ascending conveyance from the rope, if the conveyance overwinds.
(sec.268-ssec.1) The site senior executive for an underground mine must ensure the headframe, or tower, of a shaft used for winding at the mine contains the following— apparatus that is designed and installed so a conveyance or counterweight will stop safely if the conveyance is overwound; safety devices that are designed and installed so a conveyance or counterweight that has been brought to rest, or detached from the winding rope, is prevented from falling down the shaft; a way of egress to enable persons to safely leave an overwound conveyance.
(sec.268-ssec.2) The site senior executive must ensure the shaft contains guides for each conveyance in the shaft if there is a possibility of uncontrolled contact between— the conveyances; or a conveyance and equipment installed in the shaft; or a conveyance and the shaft side.
(sec.268-ssec.3) The site senior executive must ensure each winder has— if the conveyance has doors—a device preventing the conveyance moving when the doors are not closed correctly; and suspension equipment capable of withstanding stall conditions, or a hook, capable of detaching the ascending conveyance from the rope, if the conveyance overwinds.
- (a) apparatus that is designed and installed so a conveyance or counterweight will stop safely if the conveyance is overwound;
- (b) safety devices that are designed and installed so a conveyance or counterweight that has been brought to rest, or detached from the winding rope, is prevented from falling down the shaft;
- (c) a way of egress to enable persons to safely leave an overwound conveyance.
- (a) the conveyances; or
- (b) a conveyance and equipment installed in the shaft; or
- (c) a conveyance and the shaft side.
- (a) if the conveyance has doors—a device preventing the conveyance moving when the doors are not closed correctly; and
- (b) suspension equipment capable of withstanding stall conditions, or a hook, capable of detaching the ascending conveyance from the rope, if the conveyance overwinds.