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CHAPTER V
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF MINE MANAGEMENT, CONTRACTORS,
MANUFACTURERS, OFFICIALS, COMPETENT PERSONS AND WORKMEN
37. Duties and responsibilities of owner.– (1) In taking preventive and protective measures, the owner
shall arrange for regular assessment of the risk and dealing with it in the following order of priority:-
(a) eliminate the risk;
(b) control the risk at source;
(c) minimize the risk that include the design of safe work systems; and
(d) in so far as the risk remains, provide for the use of personal protective equipment, having
regard to what is reasonable, practicable and feasible, and to good practice and the exercise of
due diligence.
(2) Owners shall take all necessary measures to eliminate or minimize the risks to safety and health of
persons employed in mines under their control and shall-
(a) ensure that the mine is designed, constructed and provided with electrical, mechanical and
other equipment, including a communication system, to provide conditions for safe operation
and a healthy working environment;
(b) ensure that the machine is commissioned, operated, maintained and de-commissioned in such
a way that workers can perform the work assigned to them without endangering their safety
and health or that of other persons;
(c) take steps to maintain the stability of the ground in which persons have access in the context of
their work;
(d) where practicable, provide from every underground workplace, two exits each of which is
connected to separate means of egress to the surface;
(e) ensure the monitoring, assessment and regular inspection of the working environment to
identify the various hazards to which the workers may be exposed and to assess their level of
exposure;
(f) ensure adequate ventilation for all underground working to which access is permitted;
(g) in respect of zones susceptible to particular hazards, draw up and implement an operating plan
and procedures to ensure a safe system of work and the protection of workers;
(h) take measures and precautions appropriate to the nature of a mine operation to prevent, detect
and combat the start and spread of fires, explosions and inundations;
(i) ensure that, when there is serious danger to the safety and health of workers, operations are
stopped and workers are evacuated to a safe location;
(j) ensure that corrective actions are taken immediately, when manager or other officials report
non-compliance with safety and health regulations or code of practice by any person.
(3) The owner shall ensure preparation of an emergency response plan specific to each mine for reasonably
foreseeable industrial and natural disasters.
(4) Where workers are exposed to physical, chemical or biological hazards, the owner shall-
(a) inform the workers, in a comprehensible manner, of the hazards associated with their work,
the health risks involved and relevant preventive and protective measures;
(b) take appropriate measures to eliminate or minimize the risks resulting from exposure to those
hazards;
(c) where adequate protection against risks of accident or injury to health including exposure to
adverse conditions is not possible to be ensured by other means, provide and maintain at no
cost to the worker, suitable protective equipment, clothing as necessary and other facilities as
defined by these regulations;
(d) provide workers who have suffered from an injury or illness at the workplace with first aid,
appropriate transportation from the workplace and access to appropriate medical facilities.