Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Participants in the meeting -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. General provisions -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Objectives -- 1.3. Application and purpose -- 1.4. Reference to other ILO instruments -- 2. Industry characteristics -- 2.1. Underground coalmining -- 2.2. Occupational hazards -- PART I. NATIONAL FRAMEWORK -- 3. General duties -- 3.1. Cooperation -- 3.2. Competent authority -- 3.3. Employers' responsibilities and rights -- 3.4. Workers' rights and responsibilities -- 3.5. General responsibilities of suppliers, manufacturers and designers -- 3.6. General responsibilities and rights of contractors -- 4. Occupational safety and health management systems -- reporting, recording and notification of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health and incidents -- occupational health services -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. OSH management systems -- 4.3. Reporting, recording and notification of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health and incidents -- 4.4. Occupational health services -- PART II. METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFYING HATARDS AND ADDRESSING RISKS -- 5. Prevention and protection -- 5.1. Industry-specific safety and health hazards -- 5.2. Hazard identification, risk assessment and control -- PART III. PROVISIONS FOR SAFE UNDERGROUND COALMINING OPERATIONS -- 6. General physical, chemical, safety and ergonomic hazards -- 6.1. Physical hazards -- 6.2. Chemical hazards -- 6.3. Safety hazards -- 6.4. Ergonomic hazards -- 7. Flammable coal dust -- 7.1. Hazard description -- 7.2. Hazard control -- 7.3. Means of arresting explosions -- 8. Respirable dust -- 8.1. Hazard description -- 8.2. Hazard control -- 8.3. Prevention and suppression of respirable dust -- 8.4. Sampling of respirable dust -- 8.5. Allowable maximum respirable dust concentrations.

8.6. Provision of dust respirators -- 8.7. Medical supervision -- 9. Mine fires -- 9.1. Hazard description -- 9.2. Hazard control -- 9.3. General provisions -- 9.4. Fireproof construction -- 9.5 Firefighting equipment -- 9.6. Storage of flammable materials -- 9.7. Precautions against spontaneous combustion of coal -- 9.8. Procedure in case of fire -- 9.9. Procedure for reopeing a mine or area of a mine which has been sealed -- 10. Inrushes of water, gas or other material -- 10.1. Hazard description -- 10.2. Hazard control -- 10.3. Working under the sea or other body of water -- 10.4 Precautions where salt deposits are present -- 11. Electricity -- 11.1. Hazard description -- 11.2. Hazard control -- 11.3. Electrical systems -- 11.4. Additional precautions against methane or coal-dust explosions -- 11.5. Operating requirements -- 11.6. Additional measures -- 12. Machinery and plan (equipment) -- 12.1. Hazard description -- 12.2. Hazard control -- 12.3. Underground face equipment, and continuous mining and coal-cutting machines -- 12.4. Guarding (fencing) of machinery -- 12.5. Boiler and steam plant -- 12.6. Compressed-air equipment -- 12.7 Cranes and lifting gear -- 13. Explosives and shot-firing -- 13.1. Hazard description -- 13.2. Hazard control -- 13.3. Conveyance of explosives and detonators to the magazine -- 13.4. Issue, return and recording of explosives and detonators -- 13.5. Keeping of explosives during the shift -- 13.6. General provisions for shot-firing -- 13.7. Equipment of a shot-firer -- 13.8. Charging, tamping and firing -- 13.9. Water-infusion shot-firing -- 13.10. Protection against flying fragments -- 13.11. Procedure after shot-firing -- 13.12. Misfired shots -- 13.13. Miscellaneous provisions for shot-firing -- 13.14. Special provisions for shot-firing in stone drifts -- 13.15. Additional precautions during shot-firing.

14. Surface buildings, other surface structures and surface roads -- 14.1. Hazard description -- 14.2. Hazard control -- 15. Surveyors and plans -- 15.1. Appointment of a certified mining engineer/surveyor -- 15.2. Duties of the certified mining engineer/surveyor -- 15.3. Plans: General -- 15.4. Faulty plans -- 15.5 Abandonment plans -- 16. Commencement and cessation of mining operations -- 16.1. Commencement and cessation of mining operations:General -- 16.2. Posting of notices -- 16.3. Records and returns -- 17. Means of access and egress, includinghoisting of persons and material -- 17.1. Provision of means of access and egress -- 17.2. Ladder ways -- 17.3. Hoisting installations at shafts and unwalkable outlets -- 17.4. Guides -- 17.5. Sumps -- 17.6. Keps, safety stops -- 17.7. Headgear and rope pulleys -- 17.8. Cages -- 17.9. Detaching gear -- 17.10. Suspension gear -- 17.11. Hoisting ropes -- 17.12. Tail ropes -- 17.13. Duties of hoist operator at shafts or unwalkable outlets -- 17.14. Signalling appliances -- 17.15. Signalling operations -- 17.16. Person-hoisting operations -- 17.17. Automatic elevators -- 17.18. Shaft sinking, deepening or raising: General -- 17.19. Hoisting of persons and materials at sinking shafts -- 17.20. Sinking shafts -- 17.21. Hoisting engines or winches at sinking shafts -- 17.22. Suspension gear at sinking shafts -- 17.23. Signalling appliances at sinking shafts -- 17.24. Hoisting operations at sinking shafts -- 17.25. Shot-firing at sinking shafts -- 18. Roads -- 18.1. Safety of roads -- 18.2. Height and width of travelling roads -- 18.3. Fencing or sealing of unfit parts of mine roadways -- 18.4. Inclined roadways and workplaces -- 19. Haulage and transport -- 19.1. Transport rules -- 19.2. Haulage plant inspection and maintenance scheme -- 19.3. Haulage: General provisions -- 19.4. Hand haulage.

19.5. Mechanical haulage: General provisions -- 19.6. Trolley locomotive haulage -- 19.7. Storage-battery locomotives and battery equipment -- 19.8. Diesel vehicles, including locomotives and trackless vehicles -- 19.9. Compressed-air locomotives -- 19.10. Conveyors -- 19.11. Haulage on inclines -- 19.12. Face haulage -- 19.13. Travel and transportation of persons on roads and inclines: General provisions -- 19.14. Travel on foot -- 19.15. Mechanical passenger haulage -- 19.16. Conveyors transporting persons -- 19.17. Railways -- 20. Support of roof and walls -- 20.1. Duty to secure safety of each working place -- 20.2. Support plan and rules -- 20.3. Setting of supports -- 20.4. Powered supports/longwall shields: General provisions -- 20.5. Installation and withdrawal of powered supports -- 20.6. Provision of roof canopies or cabs -- 20.7. Precautions where falls of roof or side have occurred -- 21. Ventilation -- 21.1. General provisions -- 21.2. Mine ventilation plan -- 21.3. Air changes in the mine -- 21.4. Ventilation of working districts/sections and working places -- 21.5. Mine ventilation fans -- 21.6. Booster fan control -- 21.7. Auxiliary fan control -- 21.8. Air measurement and methane determination -- 21.9. Actions and withdrawal of persons from a mineor part of a mine endangered by methane -- 21.10. Sudden outbursts of coal, methane or other harmful gases -- 21.11. Methane monitors -- 21.12. Atmospheric monitoring systems for mine-wide monitoring -- 21.13. Methane drainage -- 22. Lamps and lighting -- 22.1. Miners' electric cap lights -- 22.2. Flame safety lamps -- 22.3. Lighting and illumination underground -- 23. Competence, education and training -- 23.1. General provisions -- 23.2. Qualifications of managers and supervisory officials -- 23.3. Qualifications, training and skills testing of workers.

23.4. Qualifications of contractors and others working in underground coalmines -- 24. Personal protective equipment -- 24.1. General provisions -- 24.2. Head protection -- 24.3. Face and eye protection -- 24.4. Upper and lower limb protection -- 24.5. Respiratory protective equipment -- 24.6. Hearing protection -- 24.7. Protection from falls -- 24.8. Work clothing -- 25. Contingency, emergency preparedness and rescue -- 25.1. General -- 25.2. First aid and medical care -- 25.3. Evacuation and rescue -- 26. Work organization -- 26.1. Job safety analysis -- 26.2. Work flow -- 26.3. Work teams -- 26.4. Persons working alone -- 26.5. Admission of outside persons -- 26.6. General duties and conduct -- 27. Safety and health committees -- 27.1. Mine safety and health committees -- 27.2. Industry tripartite committees -- 28. Special protection -- 28.1. Social protection -- 28.2. Working hours -- 28.3. Carrying of matches, smokers' materials and lighters,and search for prohibited articles -- 28.4. Alcohol- and drug-related problems -- 28.5. HIV/AIDS -- 29. Personal hygiene -- 29.1. Facilities -- Bibliography -- Annexes -- I. Workers' health surveillance -- II. Surveillance of the working environment -- III. Establishing an OSH management system -- IV. Occupational exposure limits for hazardous substances, heat, noise and vibration -- Index -- Back cover.