176 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. January 24, 1913. To stop hauling, signal to the hauling engine- man ...................................... 1 To indicate that a set or train of tubs is off the rails, signal to the hauling engine- man .............................................1 & 6 When the set or train of tubs has been put on the rails and the set is ready to start, signal to the hauling engineman : If the set is going outbye........6 & 2 If the set is going inbye ........6 & 3 (&.) Haulage (other than endless rope or chain haulage) on Self-acting inclines:— When tubs are ready to be lowered the person in charge at the top of the incline shall signal to the bottom of the incline . 2 To stop the tubs whilst in motion, signal to the brakesman ....................... 1 When persons are about to walk up or down the incline, the person in charge at the bottom or top of the incline, as the case may be, shall signal to the top or bottom 3 When tubs are ready to be sent up, the person in charge at the bottom of the incline shall signal to the top of the incline... 4 (c.) Main-and-tail rope haulage:— When a set or train of tubs is ready to be hauled inbye the person in charge of the same shall signal to the place to which the set or train is to be sent .......... 3 On receipt of the acknowledging signal the person in charge of the set or train shall signal to the hauling engineman ......... 3 When a set or train of tubs is ready to be sent outbye the person in charge of the same shall signal to the hauling engineman 2 To tighten the tail rope, signal to the hauling engineman ............................... 4 To tighten the main rope, signal to the hauling engineman .............;............. 5 To slacken the tail rope, signal to the hauling engineman ........................... 6 To slacken the main rope, signal to the hauling engineman ........................... 7 To stop hauling (hold), signal to the hauling engineman ........................... 1 To haul gently, signal to the hauling engine- man ................................. 9 (d.) Endless-rope (or endless-chain) haulage:— To commence hauling, signal .................. 2 To stop hauling, signal ...................... 1 When tubs are off the rails, signal...........1&2 When tubs have been put on the rails and hauling can be recommenced, signal......6&2 (e.) Other signals (except where a telephone is available) :— To fetch the person in charge of the haulage of the mine or of a district of the mine, signal ................................. 10 Followed by the signal indicative of the part of the mine at which his presence is required. To indicate close of shift, signal inbye ..... 11 To bring the men out of the mine or any part of the mine, signal inbye............... 12 (87.) When persons are about to be conveyed inbye or outbye, each of the signals required by the foregoing regulations to be given when a set or train of tubs is about to be hauled inbye or outbye, as the case may be, shall be preceded by a cautionary signal of ...... 8 (88.) The Manager shall, in the case of a mine where there are several districts, prescribe the additional signals to be used to indicate the districts; and shall fix any other signals that may be required. (89.) All signals must be acknowledged by the persons receiving them (other than the hauling engineman) by their returning the same signal. (90.) A notice shall be posted in the hauling engine house and at each signalling station, containing the system of haulage signals in use at the mine. Telephones. [Section 54.] (91.) Where in any mine not being a small 'mine the distance, as measured by the shortest route along the roadways, of any part of the workings from the nearest shaft or outlet by which persons enter or leave the mine exceeds 1,000 yards, efficient means of telephonic communication shall be provided and maintained between the point at which the tubs coming outbye from that part of the workings are finally made up into sets or trains or are attached to the rope of an endless rope system, and the shaft or outlet and the surface of the mine. This Regulation shall not apply to mines of stratified ironstone in the Cleveland District. Hours of Winding Enginemen. [Section 57.] These regulations have already been formally issued in draft. See Colliery Guardian, September 13, 1912, p. 530. Barometer and Hygrometer, [Section 71.] (101.) Every person on whom responsible duties are imposed with respect to the ventilation underground, and who is required to make a daily report in a book to be kept at the mine for the purpose shall, immediately before going into the mine and after coming out of the mine, read the barometer required to be placed near the entrance to the mine. This Regulation shall not apply to mines of stratified ironstone in the Cleveland District. (102.) Each hygrometer placed belowground in pur- suance of the Act shall be read by the Manager or Under Manager once every weekday if in the main intake airway and once every week if in the main return airway. This Regulation shall apply only to mines in which coal is worked. Sanitary Conveniences. [Section 76.] (103.) A sufficient supply of suitable sanitary con- veniences shall be provided:— (a.) On the surface, in or adjacent to the winding engine house, and at other suitable places convenient for the persons employed. Where females are employed on the surface, separate conveniences shall be provided for their use. (b.) Belowground, at or near the pit bottom, and at or near junctions, and inbye terminations, of main haulage roads. This provision shall not apply to a shaft in the course of being sunk. (104.) Every sanitary convenience belowground shall have a portable receptacle constructed of metal, and provided with a metal cover. (105.) A sufficient supply of disinfectant, or dty coal dust, or other suitable material for covering the faeces shall be constantly provided in a suitable receptacle at every convenience belowground and at conveniences (other than water-closets) on the surface. (106.)—(a.) Every sanitary convenience on the surface shall be under cover and so partitioned off as to secure privacy, and, if for the use of females, shall have a proper door and inside fastening. (b.) Where females are employed the conveniences for each s£x shall be so placed or so screened that the interior shall not be visible, even when the door of any convenience is open, from any place where persons of the other sex have to work or pass, and if the con- veniences for one sex adjoin those for the other sex the approaches shall be separate. (107.) Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, and in good repair, and the receptacles of all conveniences belowground shall be emptied and cleaned not less frequently than once in every seven days and oftener if necessary. The recep- tacles shall be emptied at the surface unless satisfactory arrangements are made for disposing of the contents in the gob goaf or waste or for their destruction in a furnace. (108.) No person shall relieve his bowels on the surface or on any roadway belowground, except in one of the conveniences provided in accordance with the foregoing Regulations. (109.) No person shall soil or render unfit for use in any way any convenience or sanitary utensil or appliance provided in accordance with these Regulations, and every person relieving himself belowground shall cover the faeces with disinfectant, or dry coal dust or other suitable material. Storage and Use of Candles and Paraffin Wax. (110.) Candles and paraffin wax shall not be stored in the mine belowground, except in pursuance of a written exemption by the Inspector of the Division, which exemption may be at any time withdrawn. Where candles are taken belowground in proper metal boxes, each of which contains not more than one pound weight of candles, and not more than one box for each man is taken belowground, the keeping of such boxes in the working places or at a district station during a working shift shall not be deemed to be storage within the meaning of this regulation. (111.) Where candles are stored in the mine below- ground in pursuance of an exemption as aforesaid, the following conditions shall be observed:— (a) The quantity stored on any day shall not exceed the supply reasonably required for that day ; (b) Until required for use, they shall be kept in a box or boxes constructed of fireproof material and placed in a recess in the strata, which recess, if made in the coal, shall be lined with fireproof material. Each box shall be in the sole charge of a person specially appointed for the purpose in writing by the Manager, and shall be kept securely locked. No person other than a person so appointed shall in anyway interfere with any such box. (112.)—(a) All candles used in the mine belowground shall be placed in a metal holder, which shall be of such design that when fixed to a prop the flame of the candle cannot set fire to the wood. This regulation shall not apply to candles :— (1) When being carried; (2) When used under the direct supervision of the person using the same. (113.) Candles looped or strung together shall in no circumstances be burned off below ground. Part III. Electricity. [Section 60.] For the full text of the regulations (as originally issued in the form of rules), see Colliery Guardian, February 17, 1911, and March 1,1912. The regulations are numbered 114 to 134, and, as already stated, contain sundry verbal alterations. Subsection (e) of the original Rule 18, now subsection (c) of Regulation 132 reads “ all safety lamps when relighted shall be examined before being issued,” the old subsection (c) and (d) relating specifically to the electric relighting of safety lamps being omitted. The first subsection of the original Rule 19, now Regula- tion 133 has now been altered so as to prohibit electric haulage on the overhead trolley system in all mines in which coal is worked. Part IV. Rescue and Ambulance. [Section 85.] [’(a) Rescue.^ For the full text of the original Order see Colliery Guardian, March 1 and May 10, 1912. The regulations are numbered 135 to 143. The option contained in Rule 5, subsection (a), enabling the owner, agent or manager to procure the requisite appliances as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of the Order, has now been omitted. (b.)—Ambulance. (144.) In every mine there shall be provided and kept in good condition and ready for immediate use at a convenient spot in the district of each fireman, examiner or deputy, and also in the office at the mine or other convenient place on the surface :— (a.) A suitably constructed stretcher. (b.) A box containing a sufficient supply of suitable splints and bandages, adhesive plaster, carron oil, cotton wool and carbolic acid solution (1 in 40) or other suitable antiseptic solution. The foregoing requirements shall not apply to any district the whole of which is naturally so wet as to make it impossible to keep the appliances aforesaid in good condition. The Manager shall personally inspect the appliances so provided, at least once in every month, and satisfy himself that they are in conformity with the above requirements. (145.) In every mine, not being a small mine, the manager shall arrange that there shall be at least one man trained in first aid and holding a certificate of the St. John’s Ambulance Association, the St. Andrew’s Association or other Society or body approved by the Secretary of State, in the district of each fireman, examiner or deputy at any time when twenty persons or more are being employed in the district. If less than twenty persons are employed in each district the manager shall arrange that there shall be below ground during each shift at least one man so trained and having the certificate as aforesaid. This regulation shall not come into force until 1st April, 1914. (146.) There shall be provided and kept in good condition at every mine a suitably constructed ambulance carriage. This requirement shall not apply:— (a.) To any mine the distance from which to the nearest available hospital does not exceed one mile. (b.) To any mine at which the total number of employees is less than 100 if the mine is so situated that in the opinion of the Secretary of State it cannot be served from a central rescue station, hospital, or other place, or by an arrangement with other mines for the joint provision of a carriage as hereinafeer provided and if the mine is exempted by the Secretary of State. (c.) To any mine at which the total number of employees is less than 500, if the owner, agent or manager has acquired the privilege of obtaining the use of such a conveyance when required from a central rescue station, hospital or other place, distant not more than ten miles from the mine, and in telephonic communica- tion with the mine.