Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 8.5

8.5 .         Underground magazines

        (1)         The manager of a mine must ensure that any underground magazine at the mine — 

            (a)         is located as far as practicable from any shaft or other mine access, winder, electrical sub‑station, pump station, primary or circuit fan or other important installation, but is readily accessible to any means of bulk transport; and

            (b)         is located and constructed so as to minimize or mitigate the effect that fumes resulting from any accidental explosion or fire in the magazine may have on persons in workplaces likely to be affected; and

            (c)         is constructed only after a careful check has been made of any existing boreholes which may intersect the magazine and any such boreholes have been securely plugged with a sufficient column of cement grout; and

            (d)         is adequately ventilated; and

            (e)         is located and constructed so that every precaution has been taken to reduce the risk of fire in the magazine and its general vicinity.

        Penalty: See regulation 17.1.

        [(2)         deleted]

        [Regulation 8.5 amended in Gazette 29 Feb 2008 p. 687.]

[ 8.6.         Deleted in Gazette 29 Feb 2008 p. 687.]