Minerals and Mining (Health, Safety and Technical) Regulations, 2012 🇬🇭

Ghana

Preamble

Section REGULATION 1 — Powers and functions of the Inspectorate Division

Section REGULATION 2 — Powers of inspectors

Section REGULATION 3 — Powers of Chief Inspector of Mines to prepare guidelines

Section REGULATION 4 — Appeals against instructions of Inspectors or Chief Inspectors of Mines

Section REGULATION 5 — Fees

Section REGULATION 6 — Exploration Operating Plan and Exploration Operating Permit

Section REGULATION 7 — Content of Exploration Operating Plan

Section REGULATION 8 — Mining Operating Plan and Operating Permit

Section REGULATION 9 — Content of Mining Operating Plan

Section REGULATION 10 — Modification of operating plans

Section REGULATION 11 — Emergency Response Plan

Section REGULATION 12 — Type of inspections and investigations

Section REGULATION 13 — Notice of result of inspection

Section REGULATION 14 — Specialist authorised by Chief Inspector of Mines

Section REGULATION 15 — Obstruction of inspectors

Section REGULATION 16 — Power of inspector to hold inquiries

Section REGULATION 17 — Reports of inquiry to Chief Inspector of Mines

Section REGULATION 18 — Negligence or incompetence of person holding permit or certificate

Section REGULATION 19 — Inquest by coroner

Section REGULATION 20 — Participation of inspector at inquest

Section REGULATION 21 — Improvement notice

Section REGULATION 22 — Prohibition notice

Section REGULATION 23 — Notifications of activities and appointment of managers

Section REGULATION 24 — Notification of commencement or termination of employment of statutory personnel

Section REGULATION 25 — Plans to be deposited with the Chief Inspector of Mines

Section REGULATION 26 — Reporting of accidents

Section REGULATION 27 — Reporting of dangerous occurrences

Section REGULATION 28 — Monthly and quarterly returns

Section REGULATION 29 — Forms obtainable from Inspectorate Division

Section REGULATION 30 — Other returns to be submitted where required

Section REGULATION 31 — False returns

Section REGULATION 32 — Holder to make financial provision

Section REGULATION 33 — Appointment of Mine Manager

Section REGULATION 34 — Obligation of holder to always have a manager on site

Section REGULATION 35 — Responsibility for working

Section REGULATION 36 — Qualification of managers, underground managers and mine captain in underground mines.

Section REGULATION 37 — Qualification of managers, mine superintendent and mine captain in open pits

Section REGULATION 38 — Qualification of managers of quarries

Section REGULATION 39 — Appointments not to relieve manager of personal responsibility

Section REGULATION 40 — General responsibility of manager

Section REGULATION 41 — Responsibility for accidents which occur through incompetence of workmen

Section REGULATION 42 — Responsibility of manager for safety, health and environment

Section REGULATION 43 — Records to be kept by Mine Manager

Section REGULATION 44 — Manager to ensure duties are assigned to competent persons

Section REGULATION Regulation 45—Appointment and qualification of shift boss and mining foreman

Section REGULATION 46 — Manager or mine captain not to act as shift boss or mining foreman

Section REGULATION 47 — Duties of shift boss and mining foreman

Section REGULATION 48 — Continuity of responsibility of manager and mine captain

Section REGULATION 49 — Appointment of fire patrols in underground mines

Section REGULATION 50 — Machinery to be under charge of competent resident engineer

Section REGULATION 51 — Qualification of resident engineer

Section REGULATION 52 — Engineering personnel below the rank of resident engineers to be certified

Section REGULATION 53 — Inspecting engineer

Section REGULATION 54 — Qualification of inspecting engineer

Section REGULATION 55 — Responsibility of manager for persons employed by contractors

Section REGULATION 56 — Offences

Section REGULATION 57 — Plans of underground mines

Section REGULATION 58 — Plans of surface mines

Section REGULATION 59 — Measurements

Section REGULATION 60 — Co-ordinates and records of surveys

Section REGULATION 61 — Permanent bench mark

Section REGULATION 62 — Establishment of beacon

Section REGULATION 63 — Temporary beacon

Section REGULATION 64 — Permanent beacon

Section REGULATION 65 — Maintenance of beacon

Section REGULATION 66 — Additional beacons

Section REGULATION 67 — Workings to be surveyed before abandoning

Section REGULATION 68 — Removal of beacon

Section REGULATION 69 — Plans to be produced for inspectors or authorised persons

Section REGULATION 70 — Power of Chief Inspector of Mines to order surveys

Section REGULATION 71 — Plans of dams, lakes, waste dumps

Section REGULATION 72 — Plans to be confidential

Section REGULATION 73 — Penalty on breach of obligations to keep and deposit correct plans

Section REGULATION 74 — Withholding or concealing plans, faulty plans

Section REGULATION 75 — Rules with regard to plans by Chief Inspector of Mines

Section REGULATION 76 — Cutting and use of grid lines

Section REGULATION 77 — Tracks

Section REGULATION 78 — Rehabilitation of tracks

Section REGULATION 79 — Drill pads

Section REGULATION 80 — Trenches and pits

Section REGULATION 81 — Rehabilitation and restoration of vegetation

Section REGULATION 82 — Design of surface mine

Section REGULATION 83 — Geotechnical considerations for surface operations

Section REGULATION 84—Design of haulage roads

Section REGULATION 85 — Safe means of access to be provided and maintained at surface workings

Section REGULATION 86—Boundary approach limit

Section REGULATION 87 — Mine boundaries

Section REGULATION 88 — Benches

Section REGULATION 89 — Maximum working face height

Section REGULATION 90 — Precautions in working at the edge of faces and benches

Section REGULATION 91—Slope of open pits in unconsolidated material

Section REGULATION 92 — Precautions to be taken against loose rock in open pits

Section REGULATION 93 — Life line for workers barring loose rock in a surface mine

Section REGULATION 94 — Manager responsible to avoid danger from falls

Section REGULATION 95 — Fall arrest equipment

Section REGULATION 96 — Lighting

REGULATION 97 Operation of vehicles

Section REGULATION 98 — Prohibition of riding on vehicles without passenger seat

Section REGULATION 99 — Traffic control plan

Section REGULATION 100 — General requirements for conveyor belts

Section REGULATION 101 — Start-up warning device for conveyor belts required

Section REGULATION 102 — Pull cords required

Section REGULATION 103 — Motor vehicle brakes

Section REGULATION 104 — Motor vehicle safety equipment

Section REGULATION 105 — Loading precautions

Section REGULATION 106 — Interpretation regarding dumps and stockpiles

Section REGULATION 107 — Mine waste rock dump

REGULATION 108 Discontinuance of waste dumps

Section REGULATION 109 — Temporary stockpiles

Section REGULATION 110 — Dumping precautions

Section REGULATION 111 — Dumping at stockpiles and feed bins The manager of a mine shall

Section REGULATION 112 — Stockpile safety precautions

Section REGULATION 113 — Precautions for works at water ponds

Section REGULATION 114 — Sluicing operations

Section REGULATION 115 — Restriction of access

Section REGULATION 116 — Sand pits

Section REGULATION 117 — Dredges

Section REGULATION 118 — Dredges to be approved

Section REGULATION 119 — Approval for use of a dredge

Section REGULATION 120 — Approval of repairs or modifications

Section REGULATION 121 — Dredging operations and maintenance

Section REGULATION 122 — Life saving equipment

Section REGULATION 123 — Maximum number of persons permitted on a dredge

Section REGULATION 124 — Testing and recording of test required on a dredge

Section REGULATION 125 — Head lines, side lines and mooring lines A manager shall ensure that,

Section REGULATION 127 — Design of underground mine

Section REGULATION 128 — Two outlets from mine to surface necessary

Section REGULATION 129 — Exemption regarding outlets of underground mines

Section REGULATION 130 — Removal of pillars

Section REGULATION 131 — Two independent outlets from the mine to surface required

Section REGULATION 132 — Responsibility for maintenance of outlets in different mines

Section REGULATION 133 — Access to underground workings

Section REGULATION 134 — Exemptions regarding provisions for two outlets

Section REGULATION 135 — Shaft landings

Section REGULATION 136 — Headgear to be equipped with ladder-ways and fenced platforms

Section REGULATION 137 — Ladder-ways to be provided in all shafts

Section REGULATION 138 — Platforms to be provided in ladder-ways A manager of a mine shall ensure that in the mine,

Section REGULATION 139 — Travelling ways in steeply inclined shafts to be bratticed off

Section REGULATION 140 — Special travelling ways to be used

Section REGULATION 141 — Carrying of tools or loose materials on ladder ways prohibited

Section REGULATION 142 — Crossing winding compartments

Section REGULATION 143 — When crossing permitted

Section REGULATION 144 — Protection for sinkers and travelling in sinking shafts

Section REGULATION 145 — Refuge holes and minimum clearance locomotive transport

Section REGULATION 146 — Minimum clearance trackless transport

Section REGULATION 147 — Underground mine roads

Section REGULATION 148 — Refuge holes

Section REGULATION 149 — Movement of persons prohibited

Section REGULATION 150 — Trackless vehicles and trolley lines

Section REGULATION 151 — Trackless vehicle requirements

Section REGULATION 152 — Requirements for scoops

Section REGULATION 153 — Requirements for drill jumbos

Section REGULATION 154 — Requirements for locomotives

Section REGULATION 155 — Duties of a driver

Section REGULATION 156 — Fire extinguishers

Section REGULATION 157 — Speed limit, speed indicator and operating hour meter

Section REGULATION 159 — Unobstructed view for driver or guidance by authorised person

Section REGULATION 160 — Underground vehicles and accessories to be built of non-flammable materials

Section REGULATION 161 — Regular technical inspection of underground vehicles

Section REGULATION 162 — Underground workshops for vehicles

Section REGULATION 163 — Only diesel engines permitted underground

Section REGULATION 164 — Diesel engine requirements

Section REGULATION 165 — Rules of discipline to be observed regarding vehicles

Section REGULATION 166 — Haulage in inclines

Section REGULATION 167 — Riding on vehicles

Section REGULATION 168 — Signalling for traction other than a locomotive

Section REGULATION 169 — Material exceeding length of truck

Section REGULATION 170 — Arrangement of control levers

Section REGULATION 171 — Defective and non-maintained vehicles not to be used

Section REGULATION 172 — Storage of fuel oil in locked enclosure

Section REGULATION 173 — Filling stations underground

Section REGULATION 174 — Securing of workings with unsafe ground conditions.

Section REGULATION 175 — Reporting danger and books for complaint

Section REGULATION 176 — Safety pillars between adjoining properties

Section REGULATION 177 — Material used for underground backfill

Section REGULATION 178 — Stagnant water to be drained off

Section REGULATION 179 — Quality of underground mine air

Section REGULATION 180 — Temperatures

Section REGULATION 181 — Person not allowed to stay in foul air

Section REGULATION 182 — Duty of manager to ensure acceptable mine air quality

Section REGULATION 184 — Power of Chief Inspector to prescribe minimum mine air quality

Section REGULATION 185 — Obligation of workmen to inform manager and duty of manager

Section REGULATION 186 — Control of underground mine ventilation system

Section REGULATION 187 — Ventilation of adjoining mines

Section REGULATION 188 — Regular analysis of mine air samples

Section REGULATION 189 — Inspectorate Division Diesel Log Book

Section REGULATION 190 — Adequate ventilation, a requirement for operation of diesel engine

Section REGULATION 191 — Diesel engines not to be operated on failure of ventilation

Section REGULATION 192 — Operation of defective diesel engines prohibited

Section REGULATION 193 — Ventilation plans and records

Section REGULATION 194 — Ventilation doors provisions

Section REGULATION 195 — Fire doors provisions

Section REGULATION 196 — Auxiliary ventilation provisions

Section REGULATION 197 — Maximum length of auxiliary ventilation

Section REGULATION 198 — Conditions for grant of permission for extension

Section REGULATION 199 — Underground areas not part of ventilation system

Section REGULATION 200 — Fire extinguishers to be approved by Chief Inspector of Mines

Section REGULATION 201 — Blasting schedule

Section REGULATION 202 — Vitiated air to be replaced after blasting

Section REGULATION 203 — Device for sweeping the face of development works

Section REGULATION 204 — Obligatory activation of face sweeping device in development works

Section REGULATION 205 — Control and removal of gas, fumes and dust

Section REGULATION 206 — Dust collectors

Section REGULATION 207 — Re-entry period

Section REGULATION 208 — Excavation through abandoned areas to be ventilated

Section REGULATION 209 — Water supply for dust suppression

Section REGULATION 210 — Removal or suppression of dust The manager of a mine shall

Section REGULATION 211 — Use of wet swab

Section REGULATION 212 — Use of compressed air for cleaning underground prohibited

Section REGULATION 213 — Rock drills

Section REGULATION 214 — Light to be carried underground

Section REGULATION 215 — Permanent lighting at specific places underground

Section REGULATION 216 — Lamp room for underground mines

Section REGULATION 217 — General provisions for processing plants

Section REGULATION 218 — Responsibilities of a manager of a processing plant

Section REGULATION 219 — Management of cyanide

Section REGULATION 220 — Risk assessment for gold processing plants that use cyanide

Section REGULATION Regulation 221—Training of staff working in gold processing plants that use cyanide

Section REGULATION 222 — First aid in gold processing plants that use cyanide

Section REGULATION 223 — Personal protective equipment

Section REGULATION 224 — Technical support to be supplied by manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of cyanide

Section REGULATION 225 — Procurement of cyanide

Section REGULATION 226 — Transportation of cyanide

Section REGULATION 227 — Warehousing of cyanide

Section REGULATION 228 — Packaging of cyanide

Section REGULATION 229 — Security of cyanide

Section REGULATION 230 — Off-loading of cyanide

Section REGULATION 231 — Storage at the cyanide leaching plant

Section REGULATION 232 — Transfer of cyanide to process

Section REGULATION 233 — General use of cyanide

Section REGULATION 234 — Bunded areas and leak detection and recovery systems

Section REGULATION 235 — Emergency ponds at gold processing plants that use cyanide

Section REGULATION 236 — Hazardous chemical response unit

Section REGULATION 237 — Emergency preparedness and response at gold processing plant that uses cyanide

Section REGULATION 238 — Maintenance of gold processing plants that use cyanide

Section REGULATION 239 — Cyanide measurement and monitoring

Section REGULATION 240 — Detoxification

Section REGULATION 241 — Environmental management of processing plant The manager of a processing plant shall in relation to that plant

Section REGULATION 242 — Tailing pipelines of processing plants that use cyanide

Section REGULATION 243 — Backfill

Section REGULATION 244 — Electro-winning and smelting

Section REGULATION 245 — Heap leach pads general provisions

Section REGULATION 246 — Design of heap leach pad

Section REGLATION 247 — Operation of heap leach pad

Section REGULATION 248 — Ventilation in surface plants

Section REGULATION 249 — Discharge of dust, gas and fumes into the atmosphere

Section REGULATION 250 — Removal of toxic substances

Section REGULATION 251 — Washing facilities where toxic substance is handled

Section REGULATION 252 — Workshops

Section REGULATION 253 — Electric power stations

Section REGULATION 254 — Compressor stations

Section REGULATION 255 — Fuel filling stations

Section REGULATION 256 — Water-oil separator

Section REGULATION 257 — Warehouses and stockyards

Section REGULATION 258 — Working in confined spaces

Section REGULATION 259 — Working in confined spaces in which hazards could exist

Section REGULATION 260 — Working in confined spaces where hazards which cannot be purged could exist

Section REGULATION 261 — Permanent lighting at specific stationary machinery and surface installations

Section REGULATION 262 — Emergency lighting in buildings

Section REGULATION 263 — Hazard classes

Section REGULATION 264 — Embankments

Section REGULATION 265 — Tailings storage facility impoundment

Section REGULATION 266 — Tailings discharge system

Section REGULATION 267 — Safety arrangements of tailings storage facilities

Section REGULATION 268 — Monitoring of tailings storage facilities

Section REGULATION 269 — Design and construction of tailings storage facilities to be done by qualified engineer

Section REGULATION 270 — Plans and audits for tailings storage facilities

Section REGULATION 271 — Plans and specifications of tailings dam

Section REGULATION 272 — Commissioning and audit of tailings dam

Section REGULATION 273 — Discontinuance of dam

Section REGULATION 274 — General provisions for mine site rehabilitation and closure

Section REGULATION 275 — Mine closure plan for intended closing or abandonment

Section REGULATION 276 — Submission of plans before closure of a mine

Section REGULATION 277 — Closure of open pit mines

Section REGULATION 278 — Openings to underground mines

Section REGULATION 279 — Disposal of explosives

Section REGULATION 281 — Securing Hazardous plants

Section REGULATION 282 — Closure of ancillary facilities

Section REGULATION 283 — Closure of heap leach pad

Section REGULATION 284 — Closure of tailings storage facilities

Section REGULATION 285 — Closure of process ponds

Section REGULATION 286 — Closure of waste dumps

Section REGULATION 287 — Code of safe working practice

Section REGULATION 288 — Responsibility of engineering manager

Section REGULATION 289 — Condition of safety appliances

Section REGULATION 290 — Competent person to be in charge

Section REGULATION 291 — Continuous supervision necessary

Section REGULATION 292 — Efficient guards to be provided

Section REGULATION 293 — Fences and guards not to be removed

Section REGULATION 294 — No interference with machinery

Section REGULATION 295 — Repairing, lubrication of machinery in motion

Section REGULATION 296 — Belt-driven machinery

Section REGULATION 297 — Loose outer clothing not allowed in proximity of machines

Section REGULATION 298 — Personal protective equipment to be provided

Section REGULATION 299 — Safety tags and locks

Section REGULATION 300 — Work procedure and work permits for hot works and in restricted areas

Section REGULATION 301 — Labelling of electrical distribution system and piping network

Section REGULATION 302 — Safety Signs

Section REGULATION 303 — Warning signal before starting a machine

Section REGULATION 304 — Elevators not to be used for transport of persons without permission

Section REGULATION 305 — Precautions for safety of persons in vicinity of elevator

Section REGULATION 306 — Periodic examination of elevator

Section REGULATION 307 — Locking doors of entrances to hatchway

Section REGULATION 308 — Construction and safety catches of elevator car

Section REGULATION 309 — General provisions of lifting machines

Section REGULATION 310 — Lifting machines to be erected or dismantled under supervision of competent person

Section REGULATION 311 — Examination of lifting machines by competent person

Section REGULATION 312 — Design of controls of lifting machines to prevent accidental operation

Section REGULATION 313 — Suitable diameter of drum or pulley

Section REGULATION 314 — Three last turns to remain on a winding drum

Section REGULATION 315 — No unattended load permitted from any lifting machine

Section REGULATION 316 — Person not allowed to be carried by lifting machine

Section REGULATION 317 — Safety factors for cranes

Section REGULATION 318 — Lifting machines to be operated by or under supervision of competent person

Section REGULATION 319 — Signals for lifting machines

Section REGULATION 320 — Persons to observe safety distance to working lifting machines

Section REGULATION 321 — Load to be adequately secured

Section REGULATION 322 — Containers to be designed to prevent spillage

Section REGULATION 323 — Register for lifting machines

Section REGULATION 324 — Hooks

Section REGULATION 325 — First examination of chains and ropes

Section REGULATION 327 — Warning device on specific lifting machines

Section REGULATION 328 — Lifting appliances

Section REGULATION 329 — Platforms for the operation of lifting appliances

Section REGULATION 330 — Safe working load to be plainly marked

Section REGULATION 331 — Clearance of aerial ropeways

Section REGULATION 332 — General provisions for steam boiler

Section REGULATION 333 — Safety valves and pressure gauges for steam boiler

Section REGULATION 334 — safety devices for steam boiler

Section REGULATION 335 — Precautions before opening steam boiler

Section REGULATION 336 — Examination of steam boiler

Section REGULATION 337 — Examination of used steam boiler

Section REGULATION 338 — Manufacturer's certificate for new steam boiler

Section REGULATION 339 — Notice of use of steam boiler

Section REGULATION 340 — Inspection of steam boiler

Section REGULATION 341 — Record book for steam boiler

Section REGULATION 342 — Notice before start of repair of steam boiler

Section REGULATION 343 — General provisions for air receiver

Section REGULATION 344 — Testing air receiver

Section REGULATION 345 — Records of tests of air receiver

Section REGULATION 346 — Inspection of air plant and record of inspections

Section REGULATION 347 — Supply of air for compressors

Section REGULATION 348 — Fusible plugs and thermometers

Section REGULATION 349 — Shell of air receiver to be visible for external inspection

Section REGULATION 350 — Safety devices of air receiver

Section REGULATION 351 — Drain valve of air receiver

Section REGULATION 352 — Competent electrical engineer

Section REGULATION 353 — Manager to ensure good conditions of electrical apparatus

Section REGULATION 354 — Annual examination of electrical systems

Section REGULATION 355 — Scheme for installation, use and examination of electrical apparatus

Section REGULATION 356 — Notice of electrical installations

Section REGULATION 357 — Plans of electrical apparatus operating at a voltage in excess of 220 V

Section REGULATION 358 — Switchgear and cable connections to be protected

Section REGULATION 359 — Use of electrical equipment

Section REGULATION 360 — Faulty electrical equipment

Section REGULATION 361 — Examination and repairs

Section REGULATION 362 — Electrical control gear

Section REGULATION 363 — Motors

Section REGULATION 364 — Insulation of electrical equipment

Section REGULATION 365 — Electrical equipment to be earthed

Section REGULATION 366 — Earth leakage protection

Section REGULATION 367 — Interference with electrical equipment

Section REGULATION 368 — Unauthorised and unsafe switching and interruption to electricity supply

Section REGULATION 369 — Lightning and surge protection

Section REGULATION 370 — Conductors

Section REGULATION 371 — Cables

Section REGULATION 372 — Flexible and trailing cables

Section REGULATION 373 — Electrical requirements for trackless vehicles

Section REGULATION 374 — Permitted voltage

Section REGULATION 375 — Transformed energy

Section REGULATION 376 — Protection of electrical equipment

Section REGULATION 377 — Switchgear and transformer premises

Section REGULATION 378 — Notices to be posted

Section REGULATION 379 — Generating plants and sub-stations to be adequately fenced off or enclosed

Section REGULATION 380 — Trolley lines

Section REGULATION 381 — Fire prevention in electrical installations

Section REGULATION 382 — Factors of safety for overhead lines

Section REGULATION 383 — Distances from roads and railways of overhead lines

Section REGULATION 384 — Distance from explosive magazines of overhead lines

Section REGULATION 385 — Clearance of overhead lines

Section REGULATION 386 — Design of overhead line

Section REGULATION 387 — Breakage of conductors

Section REGULATION 388 — Line conductors to be rendered inaccessible

Section REGULATION 389 — Supports of overhead lines

Section REGULATION 390 — Service line

Section REGULATION 391 — Telephone lines

Section REGULATION 392 — Lines crossing other lines

Section REGULATION 393 — Inspection and maintenance of overhead lines

Section REGULATION 394 — Appointment of Winding Operations Manager

Section REGULATION 395 — Approval of installation of winding systems

Section REGULATION 396 — Approval of components of winding systems

Section REGULATION 398 — Winding apparatus to be provided with suitable locking device or brake

Section REGULATION 399 — Brakes, devices, minimum rope and sheaves

Section REGULATION 400 — Single gear drum winding

Section REGULATION 401 — Permission required for raising or lowering of persons

Section REGULATION 403 — Manipulation of winder

Section REGULATION 404 — Depth and speed indicator

Section REGULATION 405 — Clutch of winding drums to be provided with locking arrangement

Section REGULATION 406 — Opening clutch of winding drum

Section REGULATION 407 — Over-winding and over-speeding

Section REGULATION 408—Quality of winding ropes

Section REGULATION 409 — Particulars of new winding ropes

Section REGULATION 410 — Examination of new ropes and connecting apparatus

Section REGULATION 411 — Records of winding ropes

Section REGULATION 412 — Testing of winding ropes

Section REGULATION 413 — Winding ropes to be tested if required by Chief Inspector of Mines

Section REGULATION 414 — Spare ropes to be kept where persons are hoisted

Section REGULATION 415 — Retirement criteria of winding ropes

Section REGULATION 416 — Capping of winding ropes

Section REGULATION 417 — Cage and skip attachments

Section REGULATION 418 — Life of rope

Section REGULATION 419 — Used ropes prohibited

Section REGULATION 420 — Spliced ropes prohibited in shafts and winzes

Section REGULATION 421 — Guide ropes to be provided

Section REGULATION 422 — Conveyances

Section REGULATION 423 — Secure connection between rope and conveyance

Section REGULATION 424 — Securing of projecting materials during winding

Section REGULATION 425 — Restrictions regarding persons allowed to travel with mineral or explosives

Section REGULATION 426 — Restrictions regarding man-riding

Section REGULATION 427 — Man-riding in skips

Section REGULATION 428 — Acts prohibited while cage is in motion

Section REGULATION 429 — Filling, hooking, steadying, stopping and starting of sinking bucket

Section REGULATION 430 — Responsibility of manager for transportation of persons in a conveyance

Section REGULATION 431 — Covers and doors of cages, skips and other conveyances

Section REGULATION 432 — Automatic operation of keps

Section REGULATION 433 — Winding during repairs

Section REGULATION 434 — Precautions in the case of shaft repairs

Section REGULATION 435 — Completion of shaft repairs

Section REGULATION 436 — Support of cages during repairs

Section REGULATION 437 — Brass token to be kept in conspicuous place in winding engine room

Section REGULATION 438 — Signals when brass token removed

Section REGULATION 439 — Precautions to be taken against fire where flame cutting or welding apparatus is used

Section REGULATION 440 — Commencement of winding after stoppage

Section REGULATION 441 — Shaft signals required

Section REGULATION 442 — Each winding engine to be provided with a separate signalling system

Section REGULATION 443 — Unauthorised persons not to signal

Section REGULATION 444 — Code of shaft signals

Section REGULATION 445 — Signals during blasting

Section REGULATION 446 — Legible notice of signals

Section REGULATION 447 — Authorisation of persons appointed to give signals

Section REGULATION 448 — Duties of persons authorised to give signals

Section REGULATION 449 — Winch drivers

Section REGULATION 450 — Winding engine drivers

Section REGULATION 451 — Winding engine driver to undergo regular medical examination

Section REGULATION 452 — Certificate to be withdrawn in certain cases

Section REGULATION 453 — Tests to be recorded in winding engine driver's certificate

Section REGULATION 454 — Distinct signals to be received before starting engine

Section REGULATION 455 — Testing of brakes by driver

Section REGULATION 456 — Speed of winding of persons and precaution against shocks

Section REGULATION 457 — Winding engine drivers log book

Section REGULATION 458 — Winding engine driver to observe certain provisions

Section REGULATION 459 — Examination of winding equipment

Section REGULATION 460 — Testing of winding plant, brake components, ropes and attachments

Section REGULATION 461 — Duty when defect is discovered

Section REGULATION 462 — Machinery Record Book and Shaft Log Book

Section REGULATION 463 — Hydraulic Excavators

Section REGULATION 464 — Draglines

Section REGULATION 465 — Vehicles in surface mines

Section REGULATION 466 —Trucks

Section REGULATION 467 — Drill rigs in surface mines

Section REGULATION 468 — Conveyor belts in surface mines

Section REGULATION 469 — Application

Section REGULATION 470 — Competency of small scale miners

Section REGULATION 471 — Blasting in small scale mines

Section REGULATION 472 — General duties of small scale miners

Section REGULATION 473 — Health and safety rules for small scale mining

Section REGULATION 474 — General health and safety duties

Section REGULATION 475 — Health and Safety Code for small scale mining

Section REGULATION 476 — Machinery for small scale mining

Section REGULATION 477 — Inspection of small scale mining

Section REGULATION 478 — Overhanging

Section REGULATION 479 — Slope of pits

Section REGULATION 480 — Environmental protection provisions for small scale mining

Section REGULATION 481 — General duties of underground small scale miners

Section REGULATION 482 — Two outlets from mine to surface necessary

Section REGULATION 483 — Access to underground workings

Section REGULATION 484 — Securing of workings with unsafe ground conditions

Section REGULATION 485 — Stagnant water

Section REGULATION 486 — Quality of underground mine air

Section REGULATION 487 — Persons not allowed to stay in foul air

Section REGULATION 488 — Powers of Chief Inspector of Mines to prescribe minimum underground mine air quality

Section REGULATION 489 — Use of air under pressure for cleaning underground prohibited

Section REGULATION 490 — Light to be carried underground

Section REGULATION 491 — Provision for processing plants

Section REGULATION 492 — Crushing, screening and mechanical processing plant

Section REGULATION 493 — Employment of a tributer

Section REGULATION 494 — Token to be issued to tributer

Section REGULATION 495 — Tributer's register

Section REGULATION 496 — Removal of name from Register

Section REGULATION 497 — Offences in respect of registration and token

Section REGULATION 498 — Duties of a holder who employs a tributer

Section REGULATION 499 — Limitation of hours of work and movement of mineral of tributer

Section REGULATION 500 — Tributer to work only on assigned portion of mine

Section REGULATION 501 — Delivery of mineral

Section REGULATION 502 — Limitation on receipt or mineral

Section REGULATION 503 — Duties of a receiver

Section REGULATION 504 — Disclosure of mineral won

Section REGULATION 505 — Place of receipt mineral

Section REGULATION 506 — Tributer system prohibited in exploration

Section REGULATION 507 — Minimum age of workmen

Section REGULATION 508 — Language

Section REGULATION 509 — Records of employees to be kept

Section REGULATION 510 — Maximum working time of employees

Section REGULATIO 511 — Overseer to ensure compliance with condition of employment

Section REGULATION 512 — Medical examinations

Section REGULATION 513 — Offences against condition of employment provisions

Section REGULATION 514 — Warning signs

Section REGULATION 515 — Code of safe working practice

Section REGULATION 516 — Amenities to be provided by owner

Section REGULATION 517 — Emergency fire procedures

Section REGULATION 518 — General provisions regarding fire protection in mines

Section REGULATION 519 — Fire protection underground

Section REGULATION 520 — Fan houses

Section REGULATION 521 — Fire hazard areas

Section REGULATION 522 — Procedures in case of encounter of flammable gas

Section REGULATION 523 — Use of blow torch, welding, cutting and other similar equipment

Section REGULATION 524 — Fire Fighting preparedness

Section REGULATION 526 — Self-rescuers for underground workers

Section REGULATION 527 — Emergency evacuation plans for underground mines in case of fire

Section REGULATION 528 — Filling of fuel tanks in buildings

Section REGULATION 529 — Storage of dangerous, flammable or explosive material

Section REGULATION 530 — Processes likely to produce flammable gas, vapour or dust

Section REGULATION 531 — First aid stations at mines with more than fifty persons working

Section REGULATION 532 — First aiders at first aid stations

Section REGULATION 533 — First aid stations at mines with less than fifty persons

Section REGULATION 534 — Certified first aiders

Section REGULATION 535 — Ambulance

Section REGULATION 536 — First aid equipment

Section REGULATION 537 — Antidotes, eyewash fountains and showers

Section REGULATION 538 — Medical attendance and conveyance of injured person

Section REGULATION 539 — Provision of health facility

Section REGULATION 540 — Abstracts of Regulations to be posted

Section REGULATION 541 — Delegation, possession of employment card or token

Section REGULATION 542 — Suitable shelter to be provided near the entrance of each shaft

Section REGULATION 543 — Personal protective equipment

Section REGULATION 544 — Persons infected with tuberculosis prohibited from entering underground mine

Section REGULATION 545 — Entering of chute prohibited

Section REGULATION 546 — Obligation of manager to prepare special rules on request

Section REGULATION 547 — Training programme for workers

Section REGULATION 548 — Rescue brigades

Section REGULATION 549 — Rescue apparatus

Section REGULATION 550 — General duties of workmen

Section REGULATION 551 — Damage to safety equipment

Section REGULATION 552 — Obedience to orders and instructions

Section REGULATION 553 — Acts prejudicial to safety or discipline

Section REGULATION 554 — Conflict between these Regulations and an agreement

Section REGULATION 555 — Intoxicating liquor or drugs

Section REGULATION 556 — Fighting or unlawful assault

Section REGULATION 557 — Sleeping in mine prohibited

Section REGULATION 558 — Prohibition of naked flame

Section REGULATION 559 — Consequences if workmen do not wear personal protective equipment

Section REGULATION 560 — Interpretation

Section REGULATION 561 — Revocation and savings

L.I. 2182

Minerals and Mining (Health, Safety and Technical) Regulations, 2012

Published in Government Gazette on 20 March 2012
Assented to on 20 March 2012
Commenced on 20 March 2012
[This is the version of this document from 20 March 2012.]

IN exercise of the power conferred on the Minister responsible for Lands and Natural Resources by /akn/gh/act/2006/703 section 110 of the Minerals and Mining Act, (Act 703), 2006, these Regulations are made this 19th day of June, 2012.

General Administration

REGULATION 1 — Powers and functions of the Inspectorate Division

The Inspectorate Division shall(a) exercise the powers and perform the functions specified under these Regulations; and(b) subject to the supervision of the Minerals Commission, ensure the proper and effective implementation of the provisions of these Regulations.

REGULATION 2 — Powers of inspectors

(1)An inspector or another person appointed for that purpose under these Regulations by the Chief Inspector of mines, may, at a reasonable tim…

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