General provisions

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1. General provisions

1.1. Objective

1.1.1. The objectives of this code are:

1.1.1.1. to prevent accidents, harmful effects on the health of those employed and

diseases arising from employment in opencast mines;

1.1.1.2. to ensure the appropriate design, proper technologies and safe operation of

opencast mines;

1.1.1.3. to provide the means of analysing existing technologies from the standpoints of

safety and health and conditions of work, and modifying these technologies to

remove the hazards discovered by the analyses;

1.1.1.4. to provide guidance in setting up administrative, legal and educational

frameworks within which preventive and remedial measures can be

implemented;

1.1.1.5. to promote the fullest consultation and cooperation between governments,

employers' organisations and workers' organisations in the improvement of

health and safety in opencast mining.

1.2. Scope

1.2.1. This code applies to any situation or operation involving occupational

safety and health aspects in opencast mines, and calls for attention to be paid to them by

the competent authorities with responsibility for safety and health and working

conditions with regard to opencast mining.

1.2.2. The provisions of this code should be considered as the basic requirements

for protecting workers' health. The code contains recommendations; more restrictive

national or international regulations or collective agreements have priority over these

recommendations.

1.3. Definitions

1.3.1. For the purposes of this code:

Approved type means, in relation to equipment used in an opencast mine, any equipment

which has been approved for use by the competent authority; where such equipment

is exported, the approval certificate should be accompanied by a manufacturer's

document which certifies that it complies in every way with the approval certificate;

where importing countries specify changes in the approval certificate, the latter

must state that such changes have been made and comply with the requested

specifications; the competent authority and purchaser may then accept such

certificates as valid for the purposes of this code.