Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)Regulation 407(1) The manager of a mine shall provide a suitable automatic device to prevent over-winding and over-speeding of cages or other conveyances in the mine at each winding shaft or winding engine.(2) The automatic device required in subregulation (1), shall be constructed in a manner that(a) prevents the descending cage or other conveyance from being landed at the lowest entrance to, or bottom of, the shaft or winze at a speed exceeding one and a half metres per second;(b) prevents the shaft conveyance from exceeding a speed which is fifteen per cent greater than the approved maximum designed speed;(c) controls the speed of the shaft conveyance in any part of the shaft to conform with predetermined limits; and(d) controls the movement of the ascending cage or other conveyance to prevent danger to any person in the conveyance.(3) The manager of a mine shall ensure that in the mine (a) the skip-way on the headgear is carried without any obstruction to a height of at least eight metres above the landing place of persons;(b) where winding is carried out in a shaft or winze there is fitted above the bank spring keps, or some other effective contrivance to support any conveyance in case of an over-wind; and(c) the bottom of a shaft or winze where winding is carried out is kept reasonably free of accumulation of water and an efficient device, approved by the Chief Inspector, is installed to arrest the speed of the descending cage, skip or other conveyance particularly on the occurrence of an over-wind.(4) The device required in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2), shall be in addition to the automatic device specified in sub-regulation (1).(5) The manager of a mine shall ensure that, in respect of each winding engine in the mine, appropriate devices are provided in the shaft head-frame, or tower, to remove power from the winding engine and by automatic application of the brakes bring the winding drum or driving sheave to rest before any shaft conveyance, counterweight or rope attachment reaches any permanent obstruction to its passage.(6) The manager of a mine shall ensure that any device provided on a winding engine at the mine to permit backing out from an over-wound position responds to manual control only, and allows withdrawal from the over-wind position only. |
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Responsible InstitutionMinerals Commission
36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra |
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