Revision of Department Programs

Revisions of Department Programs on electrical engineering safety have been undertaken. Changes include:

Strategic Plan

• Incorporation of the Health and Safety Strategy (NSW and Mining Industry) action plans
• Incorporation of Mine Safety Operations values
• Changes in the risk analysis and ranking of risks (as a result of Risk Identification Management System (RIMS) exercise done earlier this year)
• Changes in relating risk controls to risk areas
• Changes in information support for risk areas and risk controls
• Inclusion of an appendices that picks up some key elements of the Wran Review and National and Statewide strategies

Industry Special Projects: High-Risk Plant

• Incorporation of the Health and Safety Strategy (NSW and Mining Industry) action plans with regard to unplanned movements
• Incorporation of the mine winder assessment project currently being implemented
• Incorporation of a functional safety approach to mine winder design

Industry Standards Plan

• Incorporation of development of additional technical references for powered winding systems

Click on Department Programs to access downloadable copies of the programs.  

Draft Technical Reference for Design Registration of Powered Winding Systems - a Functional Safety Approach

The draft EES-008.2 Technical Reference for the Design Registration of Powered Winding Systems - a Functional Safety Approach has been released for public comment. Public comment should be sent to:

John Waudby
Senior Inspector of Electrical Engineering
Fax 02 4931 6790
Email: john.waudby@dpi.nsw.gov.au

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	Draft EES-008.2 Technical Reference for Design Registration of Powered Winding Systems - a Functional Safety Approach	4.1Mb

Gazette Notices

A new Gazette Notice on Types of electrical plant used in hazardous zones has been published in the NSW Government Gazette. Click here for more Gazette Notices relating to mine safety.

Explosion-Protected Electrical Plant - revision of approval list

A revised list of NSW DPI approved explosion-protected (Ex) electrical plant is now available.

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	Explosion Protected Electrical Apparatus Approvals List - PDF published 8 August 2008	305kb
	Explosion Protected Electrical Apparatus Approvals  List - Excel published 8 August 2008	278kb

Survey of approved explosion-protected electrical apparatus

A survey of approved explosion-protected electrical plant in-use hazardous zones of NSW mines was completed in late 2007. The result of the survey revealed that over 60% of existing approvals are NO LONGER USED in NSW coal mine hazardous zones, these approvals have subsequently been removed from the current list.

The revised list of approved explosion-protected electrical plant is available above for immediate review and is to be used as the list nominated in the Gazette notice "Types of electrical plant used in hazard zones".It would be appropriate to review the approvals list against current plant assets at your mine and notify Paul de Gruchy (paul.degruchy@dpi.nsw.gov.au) of concerns and/or deficiencies in the list.

It should also be noted, it is the Department's objective that all electrical explosion-protected plant used in coal mine hazardous zones have a valid Certificate of Conformity as stipulated in the gazette notice.

The following survey of approved explosion-protected electrical apparatus in-use within a hazardous zone of NSW underground coal workplaces was published mid-2007 and was circulated to end-users, plant hire companies and other interested parties.
The original survey aimed to cull items from the current approvals list that were not being used, thus minimise the impact to the industry, but allowing a concentration of resources for the ongoing supervision of plant that is of importance.

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	Survey of in-use approved explosion-protected electrical plant	24kb
	NSW DPI approvals survey template	156kb
	NSW DPI full database	456kb

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