Safety and health in coal mines
- Publisher:
- International Labour Organization, represented by the International Labour Office (ILO)
- Publication date:
- 1986-05-19
- ISBN:
- 92-2-105339-3
Index
- Preface
- Definitions
- General duties
- Surveyors and plans
- Commencement and cessation of mining operations; posting of notices; records and notification of accidents, dangerous occurrences and notifiable diseases
- Means of access and egress, including winding of persons and material
- Roads
- Haulage and transport
- Support
- Ventilation and firedamp control
- Precautions against flammable coal dust
- Precautions against respirable dust
- Miners' lamps, flame safety lamps and general lighting
- Mine fires
- Precautions against inrushes of water, gas or other material which flows when wet
- Electricity
- Machinery and plant
- Explosives and shotfiring
- First aid
- Mines rescue
- Surface buildings, structures and means of access
- Tips, dams and lagoons
- Surface railway sidings and other vehicular traffic
- Training
- Miscellaneous
- Regulations relating to opencast coal mines
- Appendix A: ILO Conventions, Recommendations, codes of practice and guides
- Appendix B: List of publications on the prevention and control of mine fires supplementing the provisions of Chapter 13, 'Mine fires
- Index