sec.68Mine vehicles and equipment used for manufacturing, storing and transporting explosives

sec.68 Mine vehicles and equipment used for manufacturing, storing and transporting explosives

The site senior executive for a mine must ensure mine vehicles and equipment used to manufacture, store or transport explosives at the mine are equipped, maintained and inspected to manage the risk of fire or explosion. The site senior executive for a mine must also ensure mine vehicles and equipment used to manufacture, store or transport explosives at the mine are— in sound mechanical condition and repair; and designed, maintained and used in a way that protects the explosives against friction, heat, incompatible materials, pressure, shock, sparks and extraneous electricity; and designed and maintained to provide adequate segregation of detonators from other explosives during manufacture, storage or transport. The site senior executive for a mine must also ensure that, before a mine vehicle or equipment that has been used to manufacture, store or transport explosives at the mine is repaired on-site or sent off-site for repair, the vehicle or equipment is— thoroughly cleaned; and inspected by a person who has the necessary competence; and certified to be free of explosive residues. In this section— Australian explosives code means the third edition of the ‘Australian Code for the Transport of Explosives by Road and Rail’ approved by the Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council. mine vehicle means a vehicle at a mine, other than— a road vehicle or vehicle as defined under the ADG Code; or a special vehicle or vehicle as defined under the Australian explosives code. s 68 amd 2019 SL No. 140 s 21 sch 1 (sec.68-ssec.1) The site senior executive for a mine must ensure mine vehicles and equipment used to manufacture, store or transport explosives at the mine are equipped, maintained and inspected to manage the risk of fire or explosion. (sec.68-ssec.2) The site senior executive for a mine must also ensure mine vehicles and equipment used to manufacture, store or transport explosives at the mine are— in sound mechanical condition and repair; and designed, maintained and used in a way that protects the explosives against friction, heat, incompatible materials, pressure, shock, sparks and extraneous electricity; and designed and maintained to provide adequate segregation of detonators from other explosives during manufacture, storage or transport. (sec.68-ssec.3) The site senior executive for a mine must also ensure that, before a mine vehicle or equipment that has been used to manufacture, store or transport explosives at the mine is repaired on-site or sent off-site for repair, the vehicle or equipment is— thoroughly cleaned; and inspected by a person who has the necessary competence; and certified to be free of explosive residues. (sec.68-ssec.4) In this section— Australian explosives code means the third edition of the ‘Australian Code for the Transport of Explosives by Road and Rail’ approved by the Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council. mine vehicle means a vehicle at a mine, other than— a road vehicle or vehicle as defined under the ADG Code; or a special vehicle or vehicle as defined under the Australian explosives code.