Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017
sec.41Mine rescue plan
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sec.41 Mine rescue plan
The site senior executive for a mine must ensure the mine has a current rescue plan showing the mine’s emergency facilities, including relevant services reticulation and communication arrangements. For an underground mine, the plan must also show the following things— the direction and quantity of the ventilating airflow; the location of ventilation controls. In an emergency, the site senior executive must make available to the persons carrying out the rescue a sufficient number of copies of the plan at a scale suitable for use by the persons in the emergency. s 41 amd 2019 SL No. 140 s 21 sch 1 (sec.41-ssec.1) The site senior executive for a mine must ensure the mine has a current rescue plan showing the mine’s emergency facilities, including relevant services reticulation and communication arrangements. (sec.41-ssec.2) For an underground mine, the plan must also show the following things— the direction and quantity of the ventilating airflow; the location of ventilation controls. (sec.41-ssec.3) In an emergency, the site senior executive must make available to the persons carrying out the rescue a sufficient number of copies of the plan at a scale suitable for use by the persons in the emergency.
- (a) the direction and quantity of the ventilating airflow;
- (b) the location of ventilation controls.