GENERAL REGULATIONS, Dated JULY 10, 1913, Made by the Secretary of State, UNDER SECTION 86 OF THE COAL MINES ACT, 1911 (1 & 2 GEO. 5. C. 50).
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1913/748 |
| Year | 1913 |
1913 No. 748
COAL INDUSTRY
(5) General Regulations
(A) Miscellaneous Provisions
GENERAL REGULATIONS, DATED JULY 10, 1913, MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, UNDER SECTION 86 OF THE COAL MINES ACT, 1911 (1 & 2 GEO. 5. C. 50).In pursuance of Section 86 of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, I hereby make the following Regulations, and direct that they shall apply to all mines to which that Act applies.
These Regulations shall come into force on the expiration of two months after the date of the "London Gazette" in which the notice that they have been made by the Secretary of State is published.(a)
In these Regulations "the Act" means the Coal Mines Act, 1911.
PART I
GENERAL
1. It shall be the duty of the manager and under-manager to carry out and to the best of their ability enforce the provisions of every Order in force under the Act regulating the supply use and storage of explosives, and it shall be the duty of all persons employed in or about the mine to comply with the provisions of the said Orders.
2. Every notice required by the regulations of the mine to be posted up shall be posted up in some conspicuous place where it may be conveniently read or seen by the persons affected, and so often as it becomes defaced, obliterated or destroyed, shall be renewed with all reasonable despatch.
3. No person shall enter the cage until authorised to do so by the onsetter or banksman, as the case may be; or leave the cage until it shall have stopped at the landing-place, and persons while waiting at the top or bottom of the shaft or any entrance into the shaft or while in the cage shall behave in an orderly manner and shall obey the directions of the banksman or onsetter, as the case may be, and shall not impede the banksman or onsetter in the discharge of his duties.
The banksman or onsetter as the case may be shall not when persons are being raised or lowered signal the cage away until the gates or other rigid fences with which the case is provided are in position, and no person other than an official or person authorised in writing by the manager to give signals shall while riding in the cage interfere with the gates or fences.
(a) The notice of the making of the Regulations was published in the "Gazette" of July 15th, 1913.
4. Subject to any directions that may be given by any official of the mine, no workman shall, except so far as may be necessary for the purpose of getting to and from his work or in case of emergency or other justifiable cause necessarily connected with his employment, go into any part of the mine other than that part in which he works, or travel to or from his work by any road other than the proper travelling road.
5. Every workman engaged at the face, or in stonework, or in timbering shall carefully examine his working place before commencing work and before recommencing work after the firing of a shot, and after any interruption of work during the shift. Where several persons are working together and one of them is in charge, the examinations required by this regulation shall be made by the man in charge.
6. Where the work of erecting the supports of the roof and sides of working places is done by the workman employed therein, it shall be the duty of the workmen to carry out the requirements of Section 50 of the Act, and to comply with the directions contained in the notice required by that section.
7. If any person shall cause, or become aware of, any obstruction in or interference with the ventilation, or of any stagnation or impurity in the air, of any part of the mine, or of any dangerous defect in any part of the roof or sides, or of any other source of danger, he shall, if it falls within the scope of his duties to remedy such obstruction, interference, stagnation, impurity, defect, or other source of danger, immediately proceed to take the steps necessary for the purpose, and if not he shall immediately inform the manager, under-manager, fireman, examiner or deputy, or other official, and shall, if he is working at the place where the danger exists, cease all work at that place.
8. If a sufficient supply of material for supporting the roof and sides of any working place is not available at the place appointed by the Act, the workman shall withdraw from the working place and report the circumstances to the fireman, examiner or deputy or other official, and a note of the report shall be entered by the person to whom it is made in the report for the day, if any, which he may be required to make.
9. No person shall, without authority, pass beyond any fence or danger signal or open any locked door.
10. No person shall deface or remove any notice which may be set up, or any marks which may be made in any part of the workings for the guidance of the workmen or for any other proper purpose connected with the working of the mine.
11. No person shall brush or waft out gas.
12. No person shall allow any burning wick or part of a wick or other burning material to lie about in the mine, and every workman on leaving his working place shall take his light or lights with him.
13. Every person using a safety lamp shall examine the same externally, and assure himself that it is locked and in good order before entering the mine, and shall from time to time while in the mine examine the lamp to see that it is in safe working order; and he shall, when he has completed his shift, return the lamp to the lamproom. If the lamp is injured while in his possession, he shall at once carefully extinguish the light.
14. No person shall place a safety lamp on its bottom unless it is necessary to do so for the safe performance of any particular work or unless authorised by the manager; and in all cases whilst a person is at work it shall be placed at least two feet from the swing of the pick, hammer or other tool.
15. Should any person find himself in the presence of inflammable gas, he shall not throw away his lamp nor attempt to blow it out, but shall shelter it, hold the lamp near the floor, avoid jerking it, and take it steadily into fresh air. If the gas fires in the lamp where he cannot take it into fresh air, he shall smother out the light or extinguish it in water.
16. No person shall when trying or examining for the presence of gas with a safety lamp, raise the lamp higher than may be necessary to allow the presence of gas to be detected.
17. Every workman working at the face shall to the best of his power carry on his work so as at all times to leave a free passage for the air current. He shall also to the best of his power leave his working place at the end of his shift in such condition as to allow of work being safely resumed therein; and if he finds it impossible to do so he shall fence it off and report the fact as soon as possible to the fireman, examiner or deputy, or other official.
18. [Revoked by S.R. & O. 1947 No. 974, at p. 427 below.]
19. No person shall sleep whilst below ground in the mine or whilst in charge of any winding, hauling, ventilating, or signalling machinery or apparatus, or boilers.
20. No unauthorised person shall work or interfere with any signalling apparatus in or about the mine.
21.—(a) The onsetter at any entrance into a shaft which is provided with a fence not worked by the cage or cages, shall not begin to remove the fence until either the cage is stopped at the entrance or it has reached such a position in the shaft that by the time the fence is removed the cage will be opposite the entrance, and shall close the fence immediately he has signalled the cage away, and shall not permit any other person to remove the fence while he is on duty.
(b) Reasonable protection against things falling down the shaft shall be provided for persons engaged in loading or unloading cages.
22. No person shall attempt to go on or across the uncovered space of the shaft bottom, except for the purpose of working in the shaft bottom, and no person shall be allowed to work in such space unless the cages are stopped.
23. Trains run for the conveyance of workmen, whether above or below ground and whether on the premises of a mine or on a line or siding to which Section III of the Act applies, shall be under the entire control of a person appointed to accompany and have charge of the train, and no person shall attempt to get into or out of the train when in motion nor ride upon the footboard (if any) or upon the buffers or couplings, nor refuse to comply with the directions of the person in charge, nor in any way obstruct or interfere with such person in the discharge of his duties, and any person failing to comply with this regulation shall be reported by the person in charge to the manager or under-manager.
24. Every person having charge of a horse, pony, mule or donkey shall drive it carefully and shall observe any directions that may be given to him by the horse keeper or by the official under whose direction he works.
25.—(a) No person below ground shall ride upon any animal, nor, except by permission of the manager or under-manager, upon any tram, tub or other contrivance drawn by a horse or other animal.
(b) No person shall ride on any haulage rope.
26. No person when taking a tub by hand down an incline of which the gradient exceeds one in twelve shall go in front of the tub; and in every case where the conditions are such that a person cannot control the tub by hand from behind, he shall not take the tub down unless some contrivance is provided to enable him to control the tub.
27. No person shall be in or about the mine in a state of intoxication, or, without permission of the manager, take or bring any intoxicating liquor on or in the mine, and no person shall throw any stone or other missile, or fight or behave in a violent manner, in or about the mine.
28. No person employed in or about the mine shall negligently or wilfully do anything likely to endanger life or limb in the mine, or negligently or wilfully omit to do anything necessary for the safety of the mine or of the...
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