Facilities and staff · OSH Code
Rescue room at a below-ground mine
- All the time
- Employer
What to do
Establish a rescue room on the surface close to the mine entrance, with an in-charge, enough rescue trained persons, and a rescue trained person always in attendance rule 125(1)–(3).
Who it applies to
Every below ground mine where more than 100 persons are ordinarily employed below ground and there is no rescue station within a radius of 35 kms rule 125(1).
In the checklist: Rescue room.
When
Before work goes on below ground, and maintained rule 125(1).
How
Mines of the same employer within a radius of 35 kms, connected by road, may share a rescue room where the total number of persons ordinarily employed below ground in all of them does not exceed 5000 rule 125(1), proviso.