Mine Safety (DAO 2000-98)

Safety Niche

A ____________ for every 100 meters shall be provided along narrow haulage-way where clearance between the side of equipment and wall is less than 0.5 meter on each side.

Inhabited Building

A building regularly occupied in whole or in part as a habitation for human beings, or any workplace, church, schoolhouse, railroad station, stores or other structures where people are accustomed to assemble, except any building or structure occupied in connection with the manufacture, transportation, storage or use of explosives.

Radiological Safety and Health Officer

A person authorized by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute to manage a radiation safety program

8 hours

All employees shall receive no less than __________ of refresher training no less frequency than once each twelve (12) months or one year.

70 degrees, 9 meters

All ladders shall be installed so far as practicable at an angle not greater than ______________ from the horizontal and shall have substantial and adequate landing platform for every __________ vertical distance from each other.

3 years

All safety engineer/inspector permits shall be subject to renewal every _________ with the Regional Office.

Regional Office

All safety engineers and safety inspectors shall be duly registered with the ______________________ and the corresponding permit shall be issued for this purpose.

2

All underground mines shall have at least ___________ interconnected, properly maintained openings to the surface.

1 week

Allow at least _____________ period for orientation of newly hired employees which shall be in the form of lecture and/or actual observation of the working place where they will be assigned.

Escape shelter

An _________________ shall be provided along the haulage-way at regular intervals to protect the employee from passing low profile trucks (LPT).

Auxiliary Lighting

An effective _________________ shall be provided in any place in the underground mine where persons have to assess ground conditions at a distance greater than the effective range of a cap lamp.

Middle

Blasting down mat in top-slice stopes shall be done in the __________ of the shift. The stope shall be checked as soon as smoke has cleared after blasting.

1 full time Safety Engineer, 1 full time Safety Inspector

Class "A" mines and service contractors shall have at least _______________________________________ and _______________________________: Provided, that those underground and surface mines employing more than one hundred fifty (150) and two hundred fifty (250) employees, respectively, shall have additional safety engineers, safety inspectors and/or deputized safety inspector as 10 required by the Bureau to have all active working places visited at least once every shift.

1 full time Safety Engineer, 1 Full time Safety Inspector

Class "B" mines and service contractors shall have at leas t___________________________________ and __________________________________. Provided, that the same shall have additional safety engineer/inspector as required by the Bureau to have all active workplaces visited at least once every shift.

1 part time Safety Engineer, 1 full time Safety Inspector, Deputy Safety Inspector

Class "C" mines and service contractors shall have at least ______________________________________, _________________________________, and ____________________________. Provided, that the same shall have additional safety engineer/inspector as required by the Bureau to have all active workplaces visited at least once every shift.

1 part time Safety Engineer and 1 full time Safety Inspector

Class "D" mines and service contractors shall have at least ________________________________ and _______________________________________.

Deputy Safety Inspector

Employees with at least ten (10) years experience either in safety work or mining operation may be deputized by the employer as safety man, with the designation of a _____________________which shall be reported to the Regional Office.

Manager

Employer shall establish and provide for a safety and health office which is independent from other offices under the direct and immediate control and supervision of the ______________ who shall be primarily responsible for the formulation and effective implementation of the company's safety and health program and enforcement of these rules and regulations.

1 month

Every employer shall ensure that a Central Safety and Health Committee is established within ___________ from the start of the operation.

Pinch/Pry Bar

Every stope and development opening shall be provided with at least one _________ of appropriate length and diameter, properly pointed or sharpened.

5 centimeters

Fractured and broken roof or back of mine workings shall be provided with closely installed laggings of at least ____________ thick and shall be tightly blocked.

4

How many blow of whistles needed to move train back slowly.

2

How many blow of whistles needed to move train back.

3

How many blow of whistles needed to move train forward slowly.

1

How many blow of whistles needed to stop train in motion or to start train forward?

4.5 meters

If ladder installed is greater than seventy (70) degrees from the horizontal, it shall have substantial and adequate landing platform for every ___________ vertical distance from each other.

30 meters

Main haulage levels with inadequate clearance shall be provided with shelter holes placed not more than thirty _____________ apart along the walkway side.

Department of Labor - Bureau of Working Conditions

Monthly employers report of accident or sickness including damage to property shall be submitted within fifteen (15) days after every calendar month to the Regional Director and Director copy furnish the _______________________________________________________.

Regional Director, Director

Monthly statistical data on Accident shall be accomplished and submitted within the first fifteen (15) days after every calendar month to the __________________, or ______________, copy furnish the Department of Labor and Employment - Bureau of Working Conditions (DOLE-BWC).

24 hours

New employees having no surface mining experience shall receive no less than _______________ of training if they are to work on the surface.

24 hours

New employees having no underground mining experience shall receive no less than ___________ of training if they are to work underground.

1.5 meters

No employee shall be allowed to work in test pits, trenches and any excavation works in unstable ground or where depth exceeds _________ without the necessary support or shoring.

25 meters, 50 meters

No mine working or opening shall be driven or caused to be driven under rivers, sea or any known accumulation of standing or running water on the surface with less than _________ of back or thickness from the true river bed and the roof of the mine working in massive, unbroken or unfractured igneous rocks nor less than _________ back or thickness when the roof of the mine working is broken or fractured rocks. The true depth of the riverbed shall be determined at different points. Deviations from the above requirements shall be subject to the approval of the Bureau.

8 meters

No mine workings shall be allowed to approach nearer than _____________ to any part of a winze or shaft or any other openings where there is known or suspected dangerous accumulation of water

16 meters

No stoping shall be undertaken within ________ radius from the main shaft.

Non rotating

Only __________ cable shall be used for hoisting purposes in drilling operations.

1 year, 5 years, 40 hours

Registration of Safety Engineers a. A duly registered and currently licensed mining engineer with at least __________ supervisory experience in mining operation and/or mine safety work; or b. A duly registered and currently licensed engineer, geologist, metallurgist with at least ____________ experience in mining operation and/or mine safety work. Provided that the applicant must have undergone ____________ of occupational safety and health training/seminars sponsored by the Bureau and/or recognized institution.

1 year, 2 years, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years

Registration of Safety Inspector a. A graduate in any engineering, geology, metallurgy or chemistry course with at least ________________ experience in safety work or ______________ experience in mining operation; or b. A college undergraduate in any engineering, geology metallurgy or chemistry course with at least two __________ experience in safety work or _______________ experience in mining operation; or c. At least a high school graduate with ____________ experience in safety work or ____________ experience in mining operation.

2 years, 40 hours

Registration of Temporary Safety Engineers a. Any duly registered and currently licensed Engineer, Geologist, and Chemist with at least ____________ experience as Safety inspector preferably under the employ of the company. b. The applicant must undergo _________ of occupational safety and health training/seminars sponsored by the Bureau and/or recognized institution: Provided, that upon issuance of the permit, the applicant shall apply for the conversion of the permit to full pledged safety engineer permit upon meeting the minimum requirement. Provided, further, that failure of the applicant to convert the said permit within two (2) years shall render the permit cancelled.

1 year, 1 year, 2 years, 2 years, 3 years

Registration of Temporary Safety Inspector a. A graduate in any Engineering, Geology or Chemistry course with __________ experience in Mining Operation b. A college graduate in any Engineering, Geology or Chemistry Course with at least _________experience in Safety Work or _________ experience in mining operation. c. At least high school graduate with ____________ experience in Safety Work or _________ experience in mining operation. Those issued with the permit under this regulation shall convert the permit to full pledge safety inspector after meeting the minimum requirements and failure to convert the permit within two (2) years shall render the permit cancelled.

Registered Safety Engineer, Part time Safety Engineer

Safety and Health Office shall be headed by a duly ________________________________________, and for Class "D" mine, its safety unit shall be headed by a ______________________________________.

Bureau

Safety and health practices of every employer shall be monitored and regulated by the ____________.

Wave light in vertical direction

Signal, when using light, to move train away from source of signal.

Swing light to circular motion

Signal, when using light, to move train toward source of signal.

Wave light horizontally

Signal, when using light, to stop train in motion.

2

Stopes except top slicing shall be provided with __________ entrances, the stope manway and the fill raise manway for ventilation and escapeway.

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

The Document that describes the identity of a substance which includes among others company product information, composition information on ingredients, hazard identification and control and clean-up procedures in cases of accidental spill.

35 centimeters

The ladders shall be constructed of adequately strong materials with rungs placed at equal intervals of _____________ apart and securely fastened and maintained in good condition at all times.

50 meters

The manager shall never allow the storage of flammable liquids or materials within ____________ radius of any main entrance to the underground mine.

Class B

Those underground and surface mines/service contractor employing a total of not less than fifty (50) and seventy-five (75) employees, respectively, to not more than one hundred fifty (150) and two hundred fifty (250) employees, respectively.

Class A

Those underground and surface mines/service contractor employing a total of not less than one hundred fifty (150) and two hundred fifty (250) employees, respectively.

Class C

Those underground and surface mines/service contractor employing a total of not less than twenty five (25) employees and not less than fifty (50) employees, respectively, to not more than fifty (50) and seventy-five (75) employees, respectively.

Class D

Those underground and surface mines/service contractor, employing a total of not more than twenty five (25) and fifty (50) personnel respectively.

Lateral, 2.5 meters

When advancing towards the suspected or known water pocket, boreholes shall be drilled at least eight (8) meters ahead of a face in a ___________direction across the course of the drive, which shall not exceed _____________ wide.

Director, Regional Director, Authorized Representative

When any physical injury results in the death of the person injured, and health threatening occurrences the employer or his duly authorized representative must give notice thereof to the _____________, _______________, or _______________ without delay.

Watered

When blasting down mat in top slice stopes or in other heavily timbered stopes; the timbers shall be ___________ before blasting.

End

When top-slice stopes are worked in two shifts or more, blasting of the mat may be done at the _______ of the shift provided that the incoming shift is at hand to inspect the stope for fire as soon as the smoke has cleared out.

Director, Regional Director, Authorized Representative, 15

Whenever an accident occurs in a mine resulting to the death of, or in serious physical injury to one or more persons, the employer or his duly authorized representative shall within twenty-four (24) hours, immediately by the quickest means available, give notice thereof, to the ________________, ________________, or ____________________. Detailed report shall be submitted to the Director or Regional Director or his duly authorized representative within _____ days after notice of knowledge by the employer of the accident.

Imminent Danger

a condition or practice that could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical injury or damage to property prior to the adoption of appropriate measures to counter the risk.

Central Safety and Health Committee

a forum for consultation and cooperation between the employer or manager of the mine, employees and members in initiating, developing and implementing measures designed to ensure the safety and health of employees at the mine.

Hot Material

a material having temperature exceeding 57° C or 134.6° F.

Underground Working

a mine working or excavation beneath the surface of the ground.

Surface Working

a mine working or excavation other than underground.

Contractor

a perfected mining rights holder.

Blaster

a person who is a holder of a valid Blaster's Foreman license issued by the Philippine National Police upon the proper endorsement of the Bureau.

Decommissioning

a process in which the mine facility is placed in a safe and environmentally acceptable condition prior to cessation of mining operation.

Dose Limits

amount of exposure to radiation in excess of As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) or CPR Part 3 limits.

Portable Magazine

an approved steel container used to store explosives for a short period of time.

Primed Cartridge

an explosive cartridge to which a detonator has been attached.

Accident

an undesired event in which, the contact, the exposure or the movement of a person to objects, equipment, machineries, substances, conditions or other persons may or may not cause personal injury, damage to properly and delay.

Explosive

any chemical compound or mechanical mixture, which by fire, friction, concussions, percussion or detonation, may cause a sudden release of gases having pressure capable of producing destructive effects.

Electrical Supply Equipment

any equipment which produces, modifies, regulates controls or safeguards the supply of electric energy.

Lost-Time Accident, Non-Fatal

any injury which does not result in death or permanent total or permanent partial disability but which results in disability from work for a day or more.

Producing Mine

any mine involved in the utilization of mineral deposit/s.

Supervisor

any person to whom the employer has delegated authority and responsibility for the direction and control of workmen.

Trackless Unit

any vehicle, drill rigs, trackless load, haul dump unit or service unit which is powered by a diesel, compressed or electric motor; used for loading, hauling, grading, drilling or services functions and not mounted on rail.

Leachants

chemicals/reagents used in dissolving minerals/metals.

Detonator

device used for detonating an explosive; like ordinary, electric, non-electric blasting caps, exploders, percussion caps, primers, electric detonators.

Magazine

explosive manufacturing building used for the storage of explosives and blasting accessories.

Electrical Installations

include but not limited to electrical supply equipment, electrical utilization equipment, electric generating plant, electric supply line and substation.

Central Safety and Health Committee (CSHC)

includes labor, union representatives and representatives from service contractors if any constituted by the employer. This committee shall maintain a continuous regular monthly meetings and shall submit the minutes thereof to the Director copy furnished the Regional Director.

Authorized Nuclear Device Operators

inducted, trained and qualified to use and operate the nuclear device as defined under the code of Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) Regulations.

Lost-Time Accident, Fatal

lost time accident that results in the death of the injured person.

Traffic Control

patrol vehicles, traffic lights, signs, barricades, detours, flagmen, or other techniques and device used to regulate movement of vehicles according to prevailing circumstances.

Workshop

pertains to machines, foundry, electrical, fabrication, repair, carpentry and overhauling shops; motorpool; and other similar shops.

Leaching

process of dissolving the valuable minerals from an ore or concentrate feed and extracting the metal(s) of interest into the solution.

Occupational Health Practitioner

refers to a physician, nurse, engineer, dentist or chemist and other qualified health professional duly licensed to practice his/her profession in the Philippines and possessing all of the additional qualifications required by the Department of Health.

Employer

shall assess all safety and health risks in all its workplaces and deal with them.

Part-time Safety Engineer

shall be allotted at least four (4) hours per week to perform the duties as safety engineer and a holder of a safety engineer's permit issued by the concerned Regional Office.

Manager

shall notify the Regional Director of stoppage/resumptions of operations.

Employer

shall notify the Regional Director prior to decomissioning.

Blasting Area

the area where actual blasting operations will be conducted including the vicinity in which concussions and/or flying material can be reasonably be expected to cause injury or property damage.

Accident Severity Rate

the days lost per million manhours worked.

Liquefied Petroleum Gas

the gas liquefied by compression consisting of flammable hydro-carbons, such as propane, butane, obtained as a by product from refining petroleum or from natural gas; used chiefly as domestic fuel; industrial and motor fuel).

Manager

the person responsible for the overall direction, control and supervision of the entire operation.

Accident Frequency Rate

the total fatal and non-fatal lost-time accidents per million manhours worked.

Non-Lost Time Accident

those that will not prevent the injured person from reporting to his designated work on the working day following the day of injury and thereafter.

Lost-Time Accident

those that will prevent the injured from reporting to work on the working day following the day of injury and thereafter.

Permanent Storage Magazine

where a large quantity of explosive is kept.

Issuing Magazine

where a small or moderate quantity of explosive is kept.