Mines and Quarries Act, 1965

Safety measures relating to use of vehicles.

42.—(1) So long as vehicles are used in a mine, there shall be provided, maintained and used, either in the mine or on the vehicles or both in the mine and on the vehicles, such safety devices as are necessary to prevent the occurrence of accidents to persons by vehicles running away; and every device shall be of a kind designed to assume automatically the position in which it operates for the purpose for which it is designed, save in a case where there is good reason for not providing a device of that kind.

(2) All necessary precautions shall be taken to protect from injury, in the event of a vehicle running away, any person who, otherwise than as a matter of routine, is at work at a place in a mine through which a vehicle runs.

Special Precautions for Winding and Rope Haulage Apparatus and Conveyors.