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[Subsidiary]

Duty to protect disused shafts and mining entrances, etc.

Responsibility for old

excavations.

Prohibition against use of inflammable material, and

duty in respect of

naked lights.

Duty to provide satisfactory ladders and ways of exit.

Duty to provide ladders in single shaft.

Duty to fence off underground

entrance to abandoned workings.

Ladders.

L.N. 87/86.

CAP. 285]

Mines (Safety) Regulations

[1986 Ed.

38. The mouth of every shaft or entrance to a mine which for the time being is out of use or used only as an air way, and the approach of every open working not being ordinary prospecting pits or trenches, and all elevated and exposed platforms and gangways shall be kept securely fenced or otherwise protected.

39. Every holder of a prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease over ground on which there are old prospecting or mining excavations either open to the surface or underground, shall be responsible for preventing access thereto or for rendering safe such excavations as are left accessible.

PART VII

MINING: UNDERGROUND

40. (1) No inflammable roofing material such as thatch or wood shall be used as roof covering on shelters erected over mouths of shafts or other deep workings.

(2) No inflammable debris or refuse shall be stored, dumped or allowed to accumulate underground in any mine.

(3) No naked lights shall be so placed that there is any risk of their igniting any wood, timber or other material underground in a mine.

41. (1) The manager shall provide and maintain to the satisfaction of a mines officer such ladders or other ways as will furnish effectual means of exit or ascent of persons from any underground workings without the assistance of winding machinery.

(2) Where in any working served by only one shaft it appears to a mines officer that a second outlet has become necessary either for the safety of the workmen employed or for proper ventilation, the manager shall on being required to do so provide such second outlet.

42. At every mine where any single shaft is allowed to form the only means of ingress and egress to the persons employed underground, such shaft shall be provided with a proper ladder way and a mines officer may order the provision of a proper ladder way in more than one shaft in any mine.

43. All underground entrances to shafts or other dangerous places which are temporarily or permanently abandoned shall be securely fenced across the whole width of the entrances so that no person can unintentionally enter them.

44. Where ladders are used-

(a) no ladder shall incline outwards from its base from the face;