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.