INQ008
Recommendations for this Inquiry
INQ-ref | REC-UID | CODE | SubCode | SrcNUM | Recommendation |
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INQ008 | REC008-3984 | E - Agency Organisation | 16 - Training and behaviour | Recommendation 1 | The Commission recommends that the live parts of resistances should be fixed so that no unprotected combustible material is within 6ins of the frames or cases containing them or within 24ins measured vertically above. |
INQ008 | REC008-3985 | F - Research and technology | 17 - Assets and technology | Recommendation 2 | The Commission recommends that conductors carrying currents at medium pressure should not be encased in wood in damp places. |
INQ008 | REC008-3986 | F - Research and technology | 17 - Assets and technology | Recommendation 3 | The Commission recommends that every precaution be taken to keep water off electrical machinery. |
INQ008 | REC008-3987 | F - Research and technology | 17 - Assets and technology | Recommendation 4 | The Commission recommends that systematic tests be made and recorded of apparatus and circuits as a precaution against fire and so that any gradual deterioration of the system may be detected. |
INQ008 | REC008-3988 | E - Agency Organisation | 40 - Equipment and consumables | Recommendation 5 | The Commission recommends that buckets of sand or other apparatus for extinguishing fire be kept in any chamber where high powered electricity is used. |
INQ008 | REC008-3989 | F - Research and technology | 17 - Assets and technology | Recommendation 6 | The Commission recommends that there be continuous supervision of every chamber in which electrical machinery is worked by currents of medium pressure. |
INQ008 | REC008-3990 | E - Agency Organisation | 16 - Training and behaviour | Recommendation 7 | The Commission recommends that more than one means of exit should be provided in every mine from every level of it to the surface; and that the miners should be kept informed where they are situated. |
INQ008 | REC008-3991 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 8 | The Commission recommends that the provisios of section 185 of the "Mining Act 1905" relating to exits from coal mines be extended to metalliferous mines employing more than 20 men in any one shift. |