The Coal and Other Safety-Lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993

Persons who may carry out shotfiring operations

22.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person except a shotfirer or trainee shotfirer shall carry out shotfiring operations.

(2) Nothing in–

(a)regulation 10(2)(c) or paragraph (1) shall prevent not more than one person from inserting into a shothole any part of a charge which is not a primed cartridge when he does so under the close personal supervision of a shotfirer; or

(b)paragraph (1) shall prevent several persons from stemming shotholes when they do so under the supervision of a shotfirer.

(3) The manager shall ensure that each shotfiring operation is carried out by or under the supervision of a single shotfirer.