Miscellaneous

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CHAPTER XXIV

MISCELLANEOUS

REGULATION 85. TELEPHONES

1.

In every mine employing a minimum number of

persons, and having workings extending beyond a minimum

distance from the entrance to the mine, both to be specified by

national laws or regulations, telephones shall be installed at a

sufficient number of suitable points underground, so as to allow

communication between the different parts of the mine, and also

between the underground workings and the surface.

2.

If there is a central exchange below ground, it shall be

situated at the intake shaft, in a recess appropriately protected

against damage and screened from noise or interference.

REGULATION 86. CARRYING OF MATCHES, SMOKER'S MATERIALS,

LIGHTERS, ETC.

In all mines in which safety lamps are required in any part—

(a) it shall be prohibited to smoke, to bring in pipes, tobacco

for smoking, cigarette papers, matches, or any other device

or material capable of producing a flame, or any tool capable

of being used for improperly opening flame safety lamps;

(b) the manager shall cause either all persons who enter a mine

or such of them as may be selected on a system approved

by the competent authority to be searched to see whether

they are carrying any object prohibited in paragraph (a) of

the present Regulation; and

(c) no person who refuses to allow himself to be searched shall

enter the mine.

REGULATION 87. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

1.

Suitable protective hats should be used by all persons

employed underground.

2.

Shaft repairers and persons performing similar work shall

be provided with and use effective safety belts unless they are

otherwise efficiently protected against the risk of falling.