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Council Directive 92/104/EEC of 3 December 1992 on the minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers in surface and underground mineral-extracting industries (twelfth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)
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MINIMUM SAFETY AND HEALTH REQUIREMENTS AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 10 OF THE DIRECTIVE
1. Supervision and organization
4. Protection from explosion risks, harmful atmospheres and fire hazards
4.4. Protection from fire hazards
4.4.2. Workplaces must be equipped with appropriate fire-fighting equipment and, as...
4.4.3. Non-automatic fire-fighting equipment must be easily accessible and simple to...
4.4.4. A fire protection plan detailing the precautions to be taken,...
4.4.5. The fire-fighting equipment must be indicated by signs in accordance...
6.1. It must be possible to reach workplaces without danger and...
6.2. Traffic routes, including stairs, fixed ladders and loading bays and...
6.3. Routes used for pedestrian traffic and/or goods traffic must be...
6.4. Sufficient clearance must be allowed between vehicle traffic routes and...
6.5. Traffic and access routes must be clearly identified for the...
6.6. Where vehicles or machines enter workplaces, traffic regulations must be...
13. Natural and artificial lighting
13.1. Every workplace must be provided throughout with lighting capable of...
13.2. Workplaces must as far as possible receive sufficient natural light...
13.3. Lighting installations in rooms containing workplaces and in passageways must...
13.4. Workplaces in which workers are exposed to risks in the...
16. Ancillary surface installations (additional special provisions)
16.2. Floors, walls, ceilings and roofs of rooms
16.2.1. The floors of workplaces must have no dangerous bumps, holes...
16.2.2. The surfaces of floors, walls and ceilings in rooms must...
16.2.3. Transparent or translucent walls, in particular all-glass partitions, in rooms...
16.2.4. Access to roofs made of materials of insufficient strength must...
16.3. Room dimensions and air space in rooms — freedom of...
16.5.1. The position, number and dimensions of doors and gates, and...
16.5.2. Transparent doors must be appropriately marked at a conspicuous level....
16.5.3. Swing doors and gates must be transparent or have see-through...
16.5.4. If transparent or translucent surfaces in doors and gates are...
16.5.5. Sliding doors must be fitted with a safety device to...
16.5.6. Doors and gates opening upwards must be fitted with a...
16.5.7. Doors along escape routes must be appropriately marked.
16.5.8. Doors for pedestrians must be provided in the immediate vicinity...
16.5.9. Mechanical doors and gates must function without risk of accident...
PART B SPECIAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO SURFACE MINERAL-EXTRACTING INDUSTRIES
PART C SPECIAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO UNDERGROUND MINERAL-EXTRACTING INDUSTRIES
8.1. An underground working is regarded as gassy if firedamp is...
8.2. The main ventilation must be provided by one or more...
8.3. Working must proceed taking account of firedamp emission.
8.4. Auxiliary ventilation must be limited to development and salvage work...
8.5. The ventilation measurement referred to under 7.3 must be supplemented...
8.6. Only explosives and initiating devices specifically for gassy mines may...
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