The Mines Act of 1952 1. Adult: Means who attended an age of 18 years, 2. Day: This means a period of 24 hours starting from midnight. 3. Employed: Means appointed by owner, agent, or manager or with the knowledge of the manager whether for wages or not. 4. Inspector: DDMS 5. Reportable injury: Any injury other than serious bodily injury which enforces the absence of an injured person for more than 72 hours. 6. Serious box injury: Any injury which involves or in probability will involve permanent loss of any body part or section of the body. Week: This means a period of 7 days starting from midnight of Saturday. What is Indian standard Time: that is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of the Greenwich mean time.9. Ordinary rate of wages: Basic wage plus any dearness allowance and underground allowance and any compensation. 10. Committee comes under Section 12: the function is to consider proposals for making rules and regulations. 11. Drinking water: Section 19 12. Separate Latrines & urinals: Section 20. 13. Medical appliances in first aid box, room, and station: Section 21. 14, Section 22 (1): Power of inspector to give written notice to mines manager, owner, or agent about the particulars | respect of which he finds anything, practice, control, supervision or management id unsafe, defective or dangerous and give a certain time to make remedies, Section 22 (1A): If not complied with section 22 (1) within the time limit specified then he may prohibit the area of mines from working. Section 22(A): (1) If the area or place is unsafe, defective, or dangerous then he can give notice with a time limit which can be extended from time to time to make this safe.(2) If not complied then he can prohibit the area from further working. Section 23: Notice of the accident. Section 25: Notice of certain diseases.15: Weekly day rest: no person shall be allowed to work more than 6 days a week. Compensatory days of rest: within the month or within 2 months. Time limit of work: Above ground not more than 48 hours a week or not more than 9 hours in any day. With prior permission from CIM, the total time limit may be up to 12 hours including time of rest of Half an hour. No one will work continuously for more than 5 hours. Below ground not more than 48 hours a week or more than 8 hours in any day. 16. Relay: Group or set of persons working the same kind but at different time periods. Shift: The time period is called shift.17. Age of persons employed: Not below 18 years. Age of trainees or apprentices: not below 16 years but under proper supervision, 18. Women’s employment: NO employment in the underground. Above ground between 6 am to 7 pm. The interval should be not less than 11 hours from the termination and start of any job. 19. Annual leave with wages: (EL): Below ground: 1 day per every 15 days of work. Above ground: 1 in every 20 days of work. 20. Calendar years of service: 190 for below ground and 240 for above ground. Calendar year means Jan 1* to Dec 31". Financial Year Means: 1** April to 31% March. 21. Maternity leave: not more than 12 weeks. 22. Power of central govt to make regulations: Section 57. Power of central govt to make rules: Section 58,MMR 1961 approved safety lamp” and “approved electric torch ; Approved by CIM. auxiliary fan” means a forcing fan or an exhausting fan, used belowground wholly or mainly for ventilating a face or faces or blind ends. “bankman” means a person appointed to superintend the lowering and raising of persons, tools and materials and the transmission of signals at the top of a shaft or winze; belman” means a person appointed to superintend the raising and lowering of persons, tools, materials and the transmission of signals at any landing; competent person” in relation to any work or any machinery, plant or equipment means a person who has attained the age of 20 years and who has been duly appointed in writing by the manager.6. “face” means the moving front of any working place or the inbye end of any drive, level, crosscut, raise or winze; 7. “material”. Includes rock, debris, stone, mineral, ore or any other material; 8. “misfire” means the failure to explode of an entire charge of explosives in a shot-hole; “socket” means a shot-hole or part of a shot-hole remaining after being charged with explosive and blasted, and which is not known to be a misfired shothole; 9. “quarter”means a period of three months ending on the 31st of March, 30% of June, 30% of September or 31st December; 10. “working place” means any place in a mine to which any person has lawful access.11. Form I: of the first schedule: Notice of mine opening, abandonment and discontinuance, a notice of reopening, change in ownership or address. Form Il: Quarterly return: on or before 20'* day of Jan, April, July, Oct. Form Ill: Annual return : On or before 2oth Feb of each year. Form IV-A: Notice of accident : Information immediate and notice within 24 hours. Form IV-B: Particulars of the person injured or killed within 7 days of occurrence. Form IV-C: Particulars of the injured person returned to duty within 15 days. Form V: Notice of the disease. Notice of accidents to : CIM, RIM, DM. Notice of disease: CIM, RIM, DM and Inspector of Mines ( medical).12. Board of mining examination: CIM ( Chairman)+ 5 members to be appointed by Central govt having technical qualifications in mining and having experience in metalliferous mines, research work and educational institute of mining degree. Every member of the board shall hold the office for 3 years except CIM. 13. First aid certificate: Issued by St. john Ambulance Association ( India). 14. Min qualification for manager's and surveyor’s certificate: Matriculation. For Foreman, Mate, engine driver, blaster certificate: Literate. 15. Validity of foreman, mate, blaster, gas testing, and engine driver certificate: 5 years. 16. Retirement age of managers and officials: 60 years. 17. Average Employment: average per day during the preceding quarter. Total no of man-days worked divided by no of working days excluding rest and no working days.18. For Manager, assistant manager, surveyor, : min Age 23 years. 19, Plans & Sections: General requirement: show the name of the mine , owner name and purpose of the plan. ‘True north, magnetic meridian and date. scale of the plan at least 25 centimeters long and suitably subdivided. Representative factor of {200 : 1, in case of mica mines and other mines having small scale workings below ground; (li) 2,000 : 1, in case of mines having large open cast workings and also in case of surface plans of large leasehold areas ; and (iii) 1,000 ; in other cases. Plans are prepared on durable paper or tracing clothes. Plans and sections shall be maintained up-to- date within 3 months and for large open cast mines 12 months.‘Types of Plan: Surface plan, Underground plan, Ventilation plan, Water danger plan , Geological plan, + every source of water such as river, stream, water-course, reservoir, water-logged opencast workings on the surface, and also the outline of all water-logged workings belowground lying within 60 meters of any part of the workings measured in any direction ; + surface contour lines drawn at vertical intervals not exceeding five metres (or ten metres in the case of a mine where there are no working belowground ; + The owner, agent or manager shall, on or before the 30 April of every year, submit to the Chief Inspector two up-to-date copies of the plans and sections maintained under clauses (b) , (c) and (d) of regulation 61(1). + List of all plans and sections shall be kept in a bound paged book signed by surveyor and manager at office. + Plans and sections are stored in a flat storage facility.Means of Access and Egress + Min outlets from underground mines: 2 * Where the shaft is vertical and more than 60 meters in depth, such arrangements shall be by means of a proper winding engine + Such shafts, inclines or outlets shall not be less than 15 meters distant from one another at any point, and each shall be connected with the other by means of a walkable passage, not less than 1.8 metres high 1.5, metres wide, through the workings belowground that are being served by such shafts or outlets, + Periodic examination of outlets - (1) Every shaft, incline and other outlets provided as required by regulation 68 shall be examined, once at least in every seven days, by a mine foreman or other competent Person. A report of every such examination shall immediately thereafter be recorded in a bound paged book kept for the purpose and shall be signed and dated by the person making the examination.ladder The ladder shall be provided if the shaft or winze is having an inclination of more than 25 degrees. Above shaft mouth min 1 m ladder with handrails or strong holdfasts. Transportation of men & Material in the case of an electric winding engine of 75 h.p. or more or of a steam or compressed air winding engine which has cylinders exceeding 30 centimeters of diameter, a | Class Engine Driver's Certificate and {b) in any other case a Il Class Engine Driver’s Certificate. Provided that this clause shall not apply to the driver of an Elect | Winding Engine up to 30 h.p. or of a steam or compressed air winding engine which has cylinders not exceeding 18 centimeters in diameter and which is not used for raising or lowering persons. + The diameter of the drums or sheaves of the winding engine, and of the pulleys and sheaves used in connection with the winding shall, not less than 100 times the diameter of the rope.ONE RAP : STOP ‘TWO RAPS : LOWER ‘THREE RAPS : RAISE FOUR RAPS : MEN ready to ascend or descend FOUR RAPS : IN REPLY - men may enter the cage or other means of conveyance. Where the shaft or winze is vertical and exceeds 45 metres in depth, it shall be provided with sufficient number of guides to ensure the smooth and safe travel of the cage or other means of conveyance. Above the topmost landing, ‘dogs’ or other devices for holding the cage or other means of conveyance in the event of an overwind shall be provided, or the guides, runners or receivers shall be sprung. Where the shaft or winze is vertical, protective roofing or pent-house sufficient to prevent danger from anything falling in the shaft or winze. The gap between the protecting roof and top of the cage shall not be more than 15 cm.Man riding + Incase of every shaft or winze exceeding 100 meters in depth, there shall be provided an effective automatic contrivance to prevent overspeeding and overwinding. The Automatic Contrivance shall prevent the descending cage from being landing a the pit bottom or other permanent landing at a speed exceeding 1.5 meters per second and shall also control the movement of the ascending cage in such a manner as to prevent danger to persons riding therein. + In the case of every shaft or winze exceeding 100 meters in depth, the engine shall be fitted with an automatic recording speed indicator. * Tests of every Automatic Contrivance and every brake shall be made by the engineer or other competent persons appointed for the purpose. (i) once at least in every seven days, by raising each cage or other means of conveyance, in turn, to pass the last control point above the topmost landing; and once at least in every three months, by attempting to land the descending cage at excessive speed. For the purpose of thi test, the setting of the Automatic Contrivance may be altered so that a predetermined point in the shaft or winze is regarded a: the landing.Transportation of men and material: Haulage ( Safety) (a) at the top of every inclined plane, at least one stop-block or other effective contrivance to arrest tubs from running or moving out of control; (b) at least one run way switch or other effective contrivance below the first stop-block or other effective contrivance at a distance greater ‘than the length of a set or train of tubs: Provided that such distance shall not exceed the length of a set or train of tubs by more than 10 meters. (c)__anattachment, behind an ascending tub or set oF train of tubs, of a back-stay, drag or other suitable contrivance for preventing the tub, set ‘or train of tubs running back. Automatic catches for endless rope used. (4) safety hooks, jazz-ralls or other suitable contrivances to prevent runaway in the forward direction. (c) tub re-railers at intervals of not more than 250 m.on every haulage roadway exceeding 30 meters in length, effective means of transmitting the signal from every stopping place on the roadway to the place at which the machinery working the rope is operated, ONE RAP... STOP when in motion TWO RAPS ... LOWER or haul in slowly THREE RAPS .. START when at rest FOUR RAPS .. RAISE or haul out slowly+ for refuge manholes shall be provided at i tervals of not more than 10 meters. Provided that where the gradient is less than J in 6 such manholes may be provided at intervals of not more than 20 meters. + Manholes shall be not less than 1.8 meters in height and 1.2 meters in depth, and not less than 0.75 metres but not more than one meter in width. + Every such traveling roadway shall ~ {a) be not less than 1.8 meters high throughout; {b) where the inclination exceeds 30 degrees from the horizontal, be provided with suitable steps or ladders; {c) where the inclination exceeds 45 degrees from the horizontal, be provided, in addition to steps or ladders, with hand rails o ropes so as to ensure safe travel; and {d) where the inclination exceeds 60 degrees from the horizontal, be provided, in addition to the steps or ladders and rails of ropes, with suitable platforms at intervals not exceeding 10 meters measured along the slope. {t shall be the duty of the foreman or other competent person to examine carefully, once at least in every seven days, the state of all haulage and traveling roads and roadways, including roadways leading to all the outlets of the mine which are in use.Mine Workings: Opencast workings:106,107. + No working shall be made within a distance of 7.5 meters of the boundary of any mine. + In workings having an inclination of 30 degrees or more from the horizontal adequate precautions shall be taken to prevent danger to persons from falling or rolling of timber, tools or other appliances or material. + No person shall work or be permitted to work at any place having an inclination of 45 degrees or more from the horizontal, where he is likely to slip or overbalance, unless he is secured by a safety belt or lifeline or is otherwise safeguarded. + Fencing: Where an excavation that has been formed as a result of any mining operation, extends within a distance of 15 meters from a public road or any building, substantial fencing shall be erected and maintained around the excavation. + No person shall work or travel on any ledge or footpath less than 1.5 metres wide, from which he will be likely to fall more than 1.8 meters, unless he is protected by guard rails, fence or rope suitably fixed and sufficiently strong to prevent him from falling.+ No person shall carry or be permitted to carry any load along 2 road or footpath having an inclination ot 30 degrees or more from the horizontal. + Every road or footpath, along which loads are carried by human agency, shall comply with the following requirements - {i)its breadth shall not be less than one metre; and (li) at every place where the inclination exceeds 15 degrees from the horizontal, level steps shall be provided such that the vertical height of every step does not exceed 0.20 metre and the distance from the edge to the back is not less than 0.35 metre. + No person shall light a fire or permit a fire to be lighted on the surface within a distance of 15 metres from any entrance to a mine. + competent person shall, once at least in every three months, examine every fire ~extinguisher so provided, and shall discharge and refill it as often as may be necessary to ensure that it is in proper working order. A report of every such examination or refilling shall be kept in a bound paged book kept for the purpose, and shall be signec and dated by the person making the examination or refilling.arrangements shall be made, once at least in every 30 days, to ascertain the atmospheric conditions behind the seals of an area of old workings or a fire or spontaneous heating unless such seals are capable of resisting the force of an explosion. A competent person shall, once at least in every seven days, inspect all seals erected to isolate or control a fire or spontaneous heating belowground. Dust sampler used: Gravimetric dust sampler. Unit of weighted average concentration of airborne respirable dust ~ milligrams per cubic meter. a place shall not be deemed to be in a harmless state for person to work or pass or be therein, if the 8 hours time — weighted average concentration of airborne respirable dust : For manganese ore =5 and for others it is 15/the free respirable silica present . airborne dust is generated to be sampled and the concentration of respirable dust therein determined once at least every six months by owner, agent or manager.* Provided that, if any measurement at any workplace shows the concentration in excess of fifty percent or seventy-five percent of the allowable concentration as specified in sub-regulation(2) (hereinafter referred to as ‘permissible limit’) The subsequent measurements shall be carried on at intervals not exceeding three months or one month respectively. * All result of measurements of airborne respirable dust and all other relevant particulars shall be systematically recorded within fourteen days of the date of collection of samples, in a bound paged book kept for the purpose. Every entry in the book aforesaid shall be countersigned and dated by the manager within twenty-four hours after such recording.* No workings shall be made in any mine vertically below any spot lying within a horizontal distance of 15 meters from either bank of a river or canal or from the boundary of a lake, tank or other surface reservoir. * No working which has approached within a distance of 60 meters of any disused or abandoned workings. * When the owner, agent or manager intends or proposed, by introducing water from the surface or from any other part of the mine or from an adjacent mine, to flood any part of the workings of his mine is called Intentional flooding.Ventilation: * For the purpose of this regulations, a place shall not be deemed to be in a safe state for persons to work or pass therein if the air contains either less than 19 percent of oxygen or more than 0-5 percent of carbon dioxide ot any noxious gas present in quantity likely to affect the health of any person; and such place shall not be deemed to be normally kept free from inflammable gas if the percentage of such gas at any point in that place exceeds 1.25. tor a suitable pressure-recording gauge or water gauge will be provided. al vent * at every main mechai + The flow of air produced by a mechanical ventilator shall, as far as practicable, be so arranged as to aid the natural ventilation. + Inevery mine in which a mechanical ventilator is in use, the quantity of air circulating in every ventilating district shall be measured once at least in every 30 days and recorded in a bound paged book kept for the purpose. * Every stopping between the main intake and main return airways shall be constructed of masonry or brickwork, not less than 25 centimeters in thickness.Contrabands. No person shall have in his possession belowground any cigar, cigarette, biri or other smoking apparatus, or any match or other apparatus of any kind capable of producing a light, flame or spark. Determination of environmental conditions In every mine having workings belowground extending to a depth of more than 50 meters from the surface, determinations shall, once at least in every 30 days be made of temperature, humidity, and such other environmental conditions. Lighting and Safety Lamp: Please refer to my video.Explosives and shots firing No explosive shall be used in a mine except that provided by the owner, agent or manager. Cases or containers made of iron or steel shall be heavily galvanized; and no case or container provided for carrying detonators shall be constructed of metal or other conductive material. No detonator shall be kept in a case of container that contains other explosives, materials or tools; and two or more types of detonators shall not be kept in the same case of container. No detonator shall be taken out from a case or container unless it is required for immediate use. The key of every case or container shall be retained by the blaster in his own possession throughout his shift. The preparation of charges an the charging and stemming of holes shall be carried out by or under the personal supervision of a competent person, in these regulations referred to as a ‘blaster’. The blaster shall fire the shots himself.‘+ The manger shall fix, from time to time, the maximum number of shots that a blaster may fire in any one shift.80 in case they are fired electrically or by means of an igniter cord and 50 in other cases. * The number of detonators issued to, and in the possession of, a blaster during his shift shall not exceed the maximum number of shots that he is permitted to fire. + Every blaster on duty shall be provided with - {a) a suitable electric lamp or torch ; {b) a tool, made entirely of wood, suitable for charging and stemming shotholes; (c) 2 seraper made of brass or wood suitable for cleai ig out shotholes; (d) where fuses are used, a knife for cutting off fuses, unless machine-capped fuses are provided, also a pair of suitable crimpers for crimping detonators; and {e) where detonators are used, a pricker made of wood or a non-ferrous metal for priming cartridges.No rill shall be used for boring a shothole unless it allows a clearance of at least 0.3 centimeters over the diameter of the cartridge of explosive which it is intended to use. Unless otherwise permitted by the Chief Inspector by an order in writing and subject to such conditions as he may specify therein, the charge in any shothole shall consist of one or more complete cartridges of the same diameter and the same type of explosive. No shothole shall be fired by a fuse less than 1.2 meters in length. As far as practicable, a shot shall be fired by the same blaster who charged it. In any mine in which explosives other than gunpowder are used, every shot shall, if so required by the Regional Inspector, be fired electrically. No more than 10 holes shall be fired in one round unless they are fired electrically or by means of an igniter cord. No person shall remove any stemming otherwise than by means of water or an approved device, or pull out nay detonator lead or remove any explosive from any charged shothole.No apparatus shall be used which is defective; every apparatus shall once at least in every three months, be cleaned a thoroughly overhauled by a competent person. The blaster shall use a well-insulated cable of sufficient length to permit him to take proper shelter, and in no case, shall this cable be less than 20 meters in length. all shots if fired belowground shall be connected in series. Danger Zone: 500 m. In the case of an opencast working, where any permanent building or structure of permanent nature, not belonging to the owner, lies within the danger zone, the aggregate maximum charge in all the holes fired at one time shall not exceed 2 kilograms unless permitted in writing by the Chief Inspector of the Regional Inspector and subject to such conditions as he may specify therein. if blasting is done with delay detonators or other means and there is a delay of at least half a second between successive shots fired, a maximum charge of two kilograms can be used in each hole.+ if the shortest distance from the place of firing to any part of such building or structure is less than 50 meters irrespective of the amount of the charge, no blasting shall be done except with the permission in writing of the Chief Inspector or the Regional Inspector. * After a shot has been fired, no person other than the blaster or any other competent person holding a Manger’s or Foreman’s Certificate appointed for the purpose by the Manager shall enter, or allow any other person to enter, the place until the area is free from dust, smoke or fumes. * The number of shots that explode shall, unless shots are fired electrically or by means of igniter cords unless it is certain that all the shots have been exploded, no person shall re-enter or be permitted to re-enter the place until 30 minutes after the firing of shots. * Provided that where shots are fired electrically, this interval may be reduced to not less than five minutes after the source of electricity has been disconnected from the cable.In the event of a misfire, the tamping may be sludged out with compressed air or water under pressure. Relieving hole which shall be so placed and drilled in such a direction that at no point shall it be nearer than 30 centimeters from the misfired hole. Socket is also be treated and handled like misfire. No internal combustion engine or steam boiler shall be used belowground in a mine except with permission in writing of the Chief Inspector. Every air receiver forming part of a compressing plant shall be fitted with a safety valve and an air gauge that shows pressure in excess of the atmospheric pressure. Before an air received is cased in or put in commission, the engineer or other competent person shall subject it to a hydraulic test at a pressure at least 1.5 times the maximum permissible working pressure.* A competent person or persons appointed for the purpose shall, once at least in every seven days, make a thorough inspection of all machinery and plant in use, and shall record the result thereof in a bound paged book kept for the purpose. * Every fence erected on the surface shall, once at least in every seven days, be examined by a competent person. * Calcium carbide shall not be taken or kept belowground until about to be used, except in a secure metal case or container containing not more than 0.5 kilogram in weight thereof. * The protective footwear referred to in sub-regulation(1) shall be supplied free of charge, at intervals not exceeding six months, by the owner, agent or manager of a mine. * The helmet referred to in sub-regulation(1) shall be supplied free of charge, at intervals not exceeding 3 years or such other interval as the Chief Inspector may specify by a general or special order in writing by the owner, agent or manager of a mine.+ The Owner, agent or manager of the mine to supply to such person or class of persons, free of charge, gloves, goggles, shinguards, or such other protective equipment as may be specified in the order. + Man power Distribution Plan. — During the first week of every month. no person shall be appointed as an official of a mine unless he is literate and is conversant with the language of the district in which the mine is situated or with the language understood by a majority of the persons employed in the mine. * Writing of reports. - If any person required to make any report is unable to write, he shall be present when his report is written for him, and shall have it read over to him, and shall then attach his thumb mark to it or sign it. The person writing the report shall certify that it has been read over to the person for whom it was written, and shall sign the certificate an date his signature.Place of accident. — + (1) Whenever an accident occurs in or about a mine causing loss of life or serious bodily injury to any person, the place of accident shall not be disturbed or altered before the arrival or without the consent of the Chief Inspector or the Inspector to whom notice of the accident is required to be given under sub- section (1) of section 23 of the Act unless such disturbance or alteration is necessary to prevent any further accident, to remove bodies of the deceased, or to rescue any person from danger, or unless discontinuance of work at the place of accident would seriously impede the working of the mine: Provided that the work may be resumed at the place of accident in case the chief inspector or the inspector fails to inspect the place of accident within seventy-two hours. + (2) Before the place of accident involving a fatal or serious accident is disturbed or altered due to any reason whatsoever, a sketch of the site illustrating the accident and all relevant details shall be prepared {in duplicate) and such sketch shall be duly signed by the manager or assistant manager, safety officers, surveyor and the workmen's inspector or, where there is no workmen's inspector by a work person. nominated by the workers in this behalf.* Appeals to the Chief Inspector.- Against an order made by the Regional Inspector under any of these regulations, an appeal shall lie, within 15 days of the receipt of the order by the appellant, to the Chief Inspector who may confirm, modify or cancel the order. * Appeals to the Mining Boards or the Central Government. — (1) Against any order of the Chief Inspector specified below an appeal shall lie, within 20 days of the receipt of the order by the appellant.Thank You Please Like and Subscribe,