CMR 2017

Chapter 10
Mine working

Conceptuals

Devendra Singh Tomar

REGULATIONS IN THE CHAPTER
 104 - Safety management plan
 105 - Manual opencast working
 106 - Mechanised opencast working
 107 - Reclamation
 108 - Spoil-banks and dumps
 109 - Transport rules
 110 - Codes of practice
 111 - Development work
 112 - Depillaring operations
 113 - Extraction of coal by method other than bord and pillar system
 114 - Saving
 115 - Roads and working places
 116 - Powers of inspectors
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 117 - Pointing out of contraventions during inspections
 118 - Multi section and contiguous working
 119 - Working under railways and roads etc
 120 - Protective work before a mine is closed
 121 - Working near mine boundaries in belowground mines
 122 - Working near mine boundaries in opencast mines
 123 - Strata control and monitoring plan
 124 - Setting of supports
 125 - Withdrawals of supports
 126 - Provisions of roof canopies or cabs
 127 - Steep working
 128 - Fencings and gates
 129 - Examination by sirdars
 130 - Avoidance of dangers
 131 - Working at height
 132 - General precautions
Opencast Mines
104 - SAFETY MANAGEMENT PLAN
 The owner, agent or manager of every mine shall:-
a. Identify the hazard
b. Assess the risks
c. Record the significant hazards identified
d. Make those records available for inspections by the employees
 After consulting the safety committee of the mine
a. Eliminate any recorded risk;
b. Control the risk;
c. Minimise the risk;
d. In so far as the risk remains –
i. Provide for personal protective equipment
ii. Institute a program to monitor the risk to which employees may be exposed
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 The owner, agent or manager shall prepare an auditable
document called “Safety Management Plan” that forms part of
the overall management and includes organisational structure,
planning, activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures,
processes and resources for developing, implementing,
achieving, reviewing and maintaining a safety and health policy
of a company.
 The Safety Management Plan shall contain
I. Defined mine safety and health policy of the company.
II. A plan to implement the policy.
III. How the mines intend to develop capabilities to achieve the policy.
IV. Principal hazard management plans.
V. Standard operating procedures.
105 - MANUAL OPENCAST WORKING
 In manual opencast workings the following precautions shall be taken:-
1. In alluvial soil, morum, gravel, clay, debris or other similar ground –
a. The sides shall be sloped at an angel of safety not exceeding 45˚ from the
horizontal.
b. The shall be kept benched and the height of any bench shall not exceed 1.5m
and the breadth thereof shall not be less than the height.
2. Where any pillar is left in situ for the purpose of measurement, its
height shall not exceed 2.5m; and where the height of such pillar
exceeds 1.25m, the base of the pillar shall not be less than 1.5m in dia.
3. In coal, the sides shall either be kept sloped at an angle of safety not
exceeding 45˚ from the horizontal, or the sides shall be kept benched
and the height of any bench shall not exceed 3m and the breadth
thereof shall not be less than the height.
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 In excavation in any hard and compact ground or in
prospecting trenches or pits, the sides shall be adequately
benched, sloped or secured so as to prevent danger from
fall of sides provided that the height of the bench shall not
exceed 6m.
 No tree, loose stone or debris shall be allowed to remain
within a distance of 3m from the edge or side of the
excavation.
 No person shall undercut any face or side or cause or
permit such undercutting as to cause any overhanging.
106 - MECHANISED OPENCAST WORKING
 In case of mines where such a study has not been made, it shall be the
responsibility of the owner and agent to get the said study made within
one year from the date of coming into force of these regulations.
 The height of the benches in overburden consisting of alluvial soil,
morum, gravel, clay, debris or other similar ground shall not exceed 3m
and the width thereof shall not be less than 3 times the height of the
bench.
 Height of benches in coal and overburden of rock formation shall not be
more than the digging height or reach of the excavation machine in use
for digging, excavation or removal, and the width thereof shall not be
less than-
a. The width of the widest machine plying on the bench plus 2m;
b. If dumpers ply on the bench, 3 times the width of the dumper;
c. The height of the bench whichever is more.
108 - SPOIL-BANKS AND DUMPS
 While removing overburden the top soil shall be stacked at a separate
place.
 Slope of a spoil bank shall be the natural angle of repose of the
material being deposited but in any case shall not exceed 37.5˚ from the
horizontal.
 Any spoil bank exceeding 30m in height shall be benched so that no
bench exceeds 30m in height and the overall slope shall not exceed 1
vertical to 1.5 horizontal.
 The toe of a spoil bank shall not be extended to any point within 100m
of a mine opening, roadway or other public works, public road or
building or other permanent structure not belonging to the owner.
 A suitable fence shall be erected.
 No person shall approach or be permitted to approach the toe of an
active spoil bank.
109 - TRANSPORT RULES
 The manager shall enforce a code of transport rules with
due regard to the size and capacity of the transportation
machinery in use and prevailing local condition and a copy
of the same shall be submitted to the Regional Inspector.
 Transport rules shall be framed and enforced within 90
days.
 Manager shall hand over copies of the transport rules to
operators, drivers and officials concerned and shall also
post such copies at all conspicuous places in the mine in
languages comprehensible by the workers.
110 - CODES OF PRACTICE
 The manager before introducing any machinery or new
operation connected with his mine, frame and enforce
“code of practice”.
 The codes of practices, inter alia, shall provide for
a) Safe operating procedures.
b) Examination and testing of the machinery.
c) Schedule and nature of examination.
d) The manner in which the records of examination shall be kept.