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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
sec.63Mine rescue plan
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### sec.63 Mine rescue plan
The site senior executive for a coal mine must ensure a mine rescue plan showing the mine’s water reticulation and communication arrangements and main access roads is kept at the mine.
For an underground mine, the plan must also show the following—
the location of—
each entry to the mine workings; and
each ventilation fan installation;
each access road to the mine surface infrastructure;
each surface installation, administration building and other infrastructure.
The scale of the plan must be sufficient to enable the plan to be overlaid on the plan of the mine workings.
In an emergency, the site senior executive must make available to the mine rescue team a sufficient number of copies of the plan at a scale suitable for use by the team in the emergency.
(sec.63-ssec.1) The site senior executive for a coal mine must ensure a mine rescue plan showing the mine’s water reticulation and communication arrangements and main access roads is kept at the mine.
(sec.63-ssec.2) For an underground mine, the plan must also show the following— the location of— each entry to the mine workings; and each ventilation fan installation; each access road to the mine surface infrastructure; each surface installation, administration building and other infrastructure.
(sec.63-ssec.3) The scale of the plan must be sufficient to enable the plan to be overlaid on the plan of the mine workings.
(sec.63-ssec.4) In an emergency, the site senior executive must make available to the mine rescue team a sufficient number of copies of the plan at a scale suitable for use by the team in the emergency.
- (a) the location of— (i) each entry to the mine workings; and (ii) each ventilation fan installation;
- (i) each entry to the mine workings; and
- (ii) each ventilation fan installation;
- (b) each access road to the mine surface infrastructure;
- (c) each surface installation, administration building and other infrastructure.
- (i) each entry to the mine workings; and
- (ii) each ventilation fan installation;