sec.288ERZ1

### sec.288 ERZ1 An underground mine, or any part of an underground mine, where the general body concentration of methane is known to range, or is shown by a risk assessment as likely to range, from 0.5% to 2% is an ERZ1. Also, each of the following places is an ERZ1— a workplace where coal or other material is being mined, other than by brushing in an outbye location; a place where the ventilation does not meet the requirements for ventilation mentioned in section 343 or 344 ; a place where connections, or repairs, to a methane drainage pipeline are being carried out; a place where holes are being drilled underground in the coal seam or adjacent strata for exploration or seam drainage; a place, in a panel, other than a longwall panel that is being extracted, inbye the panel’s last completed cut-through; a goaf area; each place on the return air side of a place mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f) , unless the place is an ERZ0 under section 287 ; the part of a single entry drive with exhaust ventilation inbye the last fixed ventilation ducting in the drive. Subsection (2) (a) does not apply to a workplace that is a shaft or roadway driven— from the surface in material other than coal; or between seams that are predominantly driven in material other than coal. In this section— brushing means removing a layer of material from the floor, roof or side of a heading or cut-through. (sec.288-ssec.1) An underground mine, or any part of an underground mine, where the general body concentration of methane is known to range, or is shown by a risk assessment as likely to range, from 0.5% to 2% is an ERZ1. (sec.288-ssec.2) Also, each of the following places is an ERZ1— a workplace where coal or other material is being mined, other than by brushing in an outbye location; a place where the ventilation does not meet the requirements for ventilation mentioned in section 343 or 344 ; a place where connections, or repairs, to a methane drainage pipeline are being carried out; a place where holes are being drilled underground in the coal seam or adjacent strata for exploration or seam drainage; a place, in a panel, other than a longwall panel that is being extracted, inbye the panel’s last completed cut-through; a goaf area; each place on the return air side of a place mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f) , unless the place is an ERZ0 under section 287 ; the part of a single entry drive with exhaust ventilation inbye the last fixed ventilation ducting in the drive. (sec.288-ssec.3) Subsection (2) (a) does not apply to a workplace that is a shaft or roadway driven— from the surface in material other than coal; or between seams that are predominantly driven in material other than coal. (sec.288-ssec.4) In this section— brushing means removing a layer of material from the floor, roof or side of a heading or cut-through. - (a) a workplace where coal or other material is being mined, other than by brushing in an outbye location; - (b) a place where the ventilation does not meet the requirements for ventilation mentioned in section 343 or 344 ; - (c) a place where connections, or repairs, to a methane drainage pipeline are being carried out; - (d) a place where holes are being drilled underground in the coal seam or adjacent strata for exploration or seam drainage; - (e) a place, in a panel, other than a longwall panel that is being extracted, inbye the panel’s last completed cut-through; - (f) a goaf area; - (g) each place on the return air side of a place mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f) , unless the place is an ERZ0 under section 287 ; - (h) the part of a single entry drive with exhaust ventilation inbye the last fixed ventilation ducting in the drive. - (a) from the surface in material other than coal; or - (b) between seams that are predominantly driven in material other than coal.