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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 645

645—Operation of shaft conveyances

        (1)         The mine operator of an underground mine must ensure that material or plant being carried in a shaft conveyance—

            (a)         does not protrude from the shaft conveyance, while it is moving, so as to contact a wall of the shaft or any thing in the shaft; and

            (b)         is so secured to the shaft conveyance that it cannot leave the shaft conveyance except by being deliberately removed.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual—$6 000;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (2)         The mine operator of an underground mine must ensure that persons being carried in a shaft conveyance are adequately protected from another shaft conveyance in the same shaft and from any material or plant being carried by the other shaft conveyance.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual—$6 000;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (3)         The mine operator of an underground mine must ensure that, if a shaft conveyance that combines a cage and skip is used, material is not carried in the skip while persons are being carried in the cage.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual—$6 000;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (4)         The mine operator of an underground mine must ensure that control measures are implemented to prevent a shaft conveyance from becoming detached or falling down the shaft.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual—$6 000;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (5)         The mine operator of an underground mine must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that facilities for loading material or plant onto or into a shaft conveyance are designed and operated so as to prevent spillage into the shaft.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual—$6 000;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.



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