Agenda Number: DMCIAC/A230402
Health and Safety Commission
Deep Mined Coal Industry Advisory Committee
Thirtieth Meeting
10.30am, Tuesday 23 April 2002
Agenda
- Introduction and Apologies
- Minutes of Twenty Ninth meeting (DMCIAC/MIN/29/02)
- Matters arising
- Legislative Renewal Programme
- Accident Statistics
- Mines Rescue Matters
- EECS – update
- Pneumoconiosis Update
- Ropemans handbook
- Mine fires
- 10.1 Reports of fires
- 10.2 Conveyor belts
- 10.3 Fire/smoke detection
- Any other business
- Date and venue of next meetings:
- Close
The Committee:
- noted progress with the legislative renewal programme
- noted trends in accidents and ill health in the coal mining industry
- reviewed current Mines Rescue issues
- received additional information concerning the closure of EECS
- reviewed statistics concerning prevalence of Pneumoconiosis in British mines 1998 - 2001
- noted the production of draft guidance "Steel Wire Ropes in Vertical Mine Shafts"
- discussed incidents of mine fire, conveyor fires and fire/smoke detection research
- noted the dates of future meetings for 2002
Published on HSE website with decisions 2 May 2002