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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
sec.270Safety devices
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### 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.