Safe Quarry - Health and Safety Authority
Safe Quarry - Health and Safety Authority
Safe Quarry - Health and Safety Authority
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PART 3<br />
GENERAL SAFETY PROVISIONS<br />
Figure 14:<br />
Boulders or blocks of stone used as edge protection<br />
that can be easily pushed aside<br />
Figure 15:<br />
Consolidated bank of material large enough to<br />
absorb a vehicles momentum<br />
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Figure 16:<br />
Rocks with heapings of scalpings between<br />
<strong>and</strong> behind the rocks<br />
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20. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC RULES<br />
(Regulation 23)<br />
23.<br />
(1) The operator shall make suitable vehicle <strong>and</strong><br />
traffic rules in order to prevent, as far as reasonably<br />
practicable, the risks to persons arising from<br />
the use of vehicles at the quarry, including where<br />
machines or vehicles enter or leave the quarry.<br />
(2) The operator shall ensure that transport vehicles,<br />
earth-moving machinery, materials-h<strong>and</strong>ling<br />
machinery <strong>and</strong> locomotives used at the quarry,<br />
including those operated by another employer at<br />
the quarry -<br />
(a) are of good design <strong>and</strong> construction taking<br />
into account as far as possible ergonomic<br />
principles,<br />
(b) are maintained in good working order,<br />
(c) are properly used,<br />
(d) are not operated otherwise than by -<br />
(i) a competent person who has attained the<br />
age of 18 years, or<br />
(ii) a person of 16 or 17 years under the close<br />
personal supervision of a competent person<br />
for the purpose of his or her training, <strong>and</strong><br />
(e) have, as appropriate, auxiliary devices as<br />
specified in Schedule 2 installed to improve<br />
visibility.<br />
A large number of people have been killed both in<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> throughout the world in transport related<br />
accidents at quarries <strong>and</strong> many of these involve<br />
reversing or moving vehicles. It is, therefore, vitally<br />
important that the hazards associated with vehicles<br />
are identified <strong>and</strong> the risks controlled. Good, well<br />
enforced, vehicle rules can make a significant contribution<br />
to reducing deaths <strong>and</strong> injuries at quarries.<br />
The procedures must deal with site management of<br />
all vehicles <strong>and</strong> mobile machinery on site; rules,<br />
which only cover instructions for drivers, are not<br />
sufficient. The rules must cover contractors’ <strong>and</strong><br />
private vehicles as well as railway trains on private<br />
railways or sidings within the quarry.<br />
The rules <strong>and</strong> procedures should be brought to the<br />
attention of those affected by them <strong>and</strong> reviewed<br />
as necessary. The rules should be set out in a way,<br />
which takes account of how risks vary from one part<br />
SAFE QUARRY GUIDELINES TO THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE AT WORK (QUARRIES) REGULATIONS 2008 35
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