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Underground metalliferous: refuges, explosives and the fleet below.

Hard rock mines run refuge chambers, magazines and a fleet of underground machines. Escudo Mining keeps them checked and works out readiness by site.

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Why it matters

Refuge chambers are the plan

A chamber missing its inspection or short of supplies changes what the emergency plan can rely on.

Explosives underground

Magazines and charge-up units need their ledger, inspections and quantities kept every shift.

A big underground fleet

Loaders, trucks, drills and charge-up units each need a pre-start the operator will actually do.

What Escudo Mining does

For underground metalliferous

Everything it does
  • Refuge chambers, caches and first aid rooms with their own QR tag, checks, defects and status
  • An explosives ledger per magazine with the balance after each entry, stocktakes, blast records and misfires
  • Breathing apparatus, self-rescuers and gas detection by location, with their test regimes
  • Plant quarantine and fire records, and work orders to site maintenance
  • The responder site pack, printed or saved on the phone

Plant checks in the starter library

  • LHD loader pre-start
  • Underground truck pre-start
  • Jumbo or production drill pre-start
  • Underground charge-up unit pre-start
  • Integrated tool carrier or EWP pre-start
  • Underground light vehicle or personnel carrier pre-start

Starting points to adapt. Limits are never set for you: your site enters its own from the maker and its procedures.

Rule packs that cover underground metalliferous

Queensland metalliferous mines and quarries

Values to confirm

Emergency plan tested every 12 months; rescue numbers set by the site. Explosives as for Queensland coal.

Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017 s 40

New South Wales metalliferous mines

Values to confirm

Plan tested yearly. Self-rescuer training every 6 months. Rescue numbers by risk assessment.

WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 ss 96, 103

Western Australia mines

Values to confirm

Plan tested at least yearly. Refuge chamber inspection every 7 days. Explosives stores inspected monthly, records kept 2 years. Rescue numbers by risk assessment.

Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 r 669; Dangerous Goods Safety (Explosives) Regulations 2007

Victoria mines

Values to confirm

Emergency plan tested yearly.

Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 r 435

Model WHS (Mines): SA, Tasmania, NT

Values to confirm

Emergency plan tested every 12 months.

Model Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations as adopted in each

New Zealand mining and tunnelling

Values confirmed

Two teams of six where 40 or more work underground. Self-rescuer training quarterly. Plan tested every 12 months.

Health and Safety at Work (Mining Operations and Quarrying Operations) Regulations 2016; WorkSafe ACOP Emergency preparedness 6.1, 6.3

Papua New Guinea (company standard)

Values to confirm

Your company standard, entered with you.

Mining (Safety) Act; large operators set their own standard

Other mine types

Underground coalMore on underground coalOpen cutMore on open cutQuarriesMore on quarriesTunnellingMore on tunnellingMines rescue servicesMore on mines rescue services

See it at your own site

Send us your refuge chamber inspection and your breathing apparatus checks. We will set up a mine site with your rule pack and show you the readiness board working.

Or email us: info@escudoready.com

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