Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)

Regulation 403(1) The manager of a mine shall ensure that a winding engine that is intended to be used in the mine is constructed in a manner that ensures that(a) when the winding engine is running at various speeds with light and heavy loads it can be readily slowed and stopped and after stopping can be immediately started again in either direction by the engine driver; and(b) each winding drum when un-clutched from the engine can be maintained in the position of rest by means of its own brake, with no more slipping than one third of a metre when(i) bearing its maximum working load, and(ii) the maximum load is increased to the extent of doubling the authorised load of the case or skip.(2) In estimating the authorised load in respect of persons carried in a cage or skip seventy five kilograms shall be allotted for each person.(3) The driver of a winding engine in a mine shall ensure that a cage or skip in which a person is travelling is not accelerated or decelerated by the winding engine at a rate greater than one and a half metres per second per second but in the case of emergency the deceleration shall not be less than two metres per second per second and not more than five metres per second per second.(4) The manager of a mine shall ensure that where an automatic winding engine is used in the mine, the automatic controls do not allow the winding engine to exceed the rates prescribed in sub-regulation (3).

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Minerals Commission

36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra
Email:mlnrinfo@mlnr.gov.gh
Website:http://mincom.gov.gh

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