GENERAL
All employees are to make themselves familiar with escape routes.
In an emergency, when all persons have been withdrawn to a place of safety, phone the local mine security. General Manager’s Office personnel to phone municipal fire brigade.
FIRE AND EMERGENCY:
- Withdraw all workmen to a safe place. (Assembly point).
- If the fire is small, attempt to extinguish it.
- If the fire is extensive, phone mine security and fire brigade.
- Advise the manager by phone.
- If you notice smoke, investigate the cause.
- No official to leave the mine without permission of the Manager.
The Manager Engineering shall:
- Appoint a Fire Master.
- Formulate procedures.
The Fire Master shall:
- Appoint an Assistant Fire Master and fire-fighting teams.
- Ensure that all employees are familiar with procedures.
- Ensure availability of fire fighting equipment.
- Provide records of fire fighting equipment.
- Provide security with names and telephone numbers of members of fire-fighting teams.
- Submit a monthly, written report to the General Manager on potential fire hazards and the condition of equipment.
- Indicate fire risk areas on plan.
Equipment Controllers
- Examine and submit a monthly report on condition and availability of fire fighting equipment to the Fire Master.
- Ensure that all fire fighting equipment is in order and ready for use. (Truck available and water trailer filled with water, etc.)
- Submit a written report to the Fire Master regarding condition and availability of equipment on a monthly basis.
Head of Department:
- Ensure that all persons are familiar with procedures.
- Check weekly on fire fighting equipment and enter details of such inspection in a book kept for this purpose.
LIST OF FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT WHICH MUST BE AVAILABLE:
- Weekly Inspection Register.
- Vehicle with hitch for water trailer.
- Fire water trailer (car), or mobile extinguisher.
- Hoses with garden fittings – fire hoses.
- Fire extinguishers.
- Fire fighting suites – full face masks and canister.
- First aid equipment.
- Fire beaters.
- Portable hydrants – adapter.
- Poderaux spray nozzle with branch pipe.
- 19mm jet nozzle with branch pipe.
- Dividing breaching – collecting breech.
- 63mm fire hose (4 x 15m; 2 x 7,5m)
- Hacksaw.
- X-cut saw.
- Pipe wrenches (46cm and 61cm)
- Chain tongs.
- Hammers (1kg, 2 kg, 4 kg).
- Axe.
- Pinch bars (1m, 1,5m, 2m).
- Various sizes of flanges, clamps, set spanners aluminium pipes and fittings to suit the standards of the mine.