sec.270Safety devices

### sec.270 Safety devices The site senior executive for an underground mine must ensure each friction winding system at the mine has a device that causes each of the following to happen before the conveyance, counterweight or rope attachment reaches a permanent obstruction to its passage in the shaft— the power to be cut off from the winder; the brakes to be automatically applied to bring the winding drum or sheave to rest. The site senior executive must also ensure— each winder has a way of automatically synchronising the conveyance’s position indicator and automatic safety devices with the conveyance’s position; and any synchronising adjustment is done only while the brakes are applied and the winder is stationary. (sec.270-ssec.1) The site senior executive for an underground mine must ensure each friction winding system at the mine has a device that causes each of the following to happen before the conveyance, counterweight or rope attachment reaches a permanent obstruction to its passage in the shaft— the power to be cut off from the winder; the brakes to be automatically applied to bring the winding drum or sheave to rest. (sec.270-ssec.2) The site senior executive must also ensure— each winder has a way of automatically synchronising the conveyance’s position indicator and automatic safety devices with the conveyance’s position; and any synchronising adjustment is done only while the brakes are applied and the winder is stationary. - (a) the power to be cut off from the winder; - (b) the brakes to be automatically applied to bring the winding drum or sheave to rest. - (a) each winder has a way of automatically synchronising the conveyance’s position indicator and automatic safety devices with the conveyance’s position; and - (b) any synchronising adjustment is done only while the brakes are applied and the winder is stationary.