INQ008

Recommendations for this Inquiry

INQ-ref REC-UID CODE SubCode SrcNUM Recommendation
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.