PART XXIX UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS — Remote controlled equipment

the employer shall, in consultation with the occupational health and safety committee, the worker health and safety representative or the workplace health and safety designate, develop a written procedure for use of the remote controlled equipment to ensure the health and safety of workers; is equipped with a means or device that, when it reaches an incline or decline of 45 ° from the horizontal, automatically stops the engine and applies the brakes on the equipment;

the employer shall ensure that the equipment is operated on a frequency such that answers or responds to the frequency assigned to it, which frequency can operate only one piece of equipment;

a remote control unit used to operate one piece of equipment cannot be used to operate another piece of equipment, and (ii) the equipment cannot be affected by another remote control unit or radio communications at the site;

the equipment shall have a selector device that enables the operator to control the equipment either manually or by remote; is equipped with an emergency switch that stops the engine on the remote controlled equipment instantly and applies the brakes on the equipment;

the equipment shall be used within the operator's sight, except where a robot system is used, in which case access to the working site where the robot system is used shall be barricaded and under camera surveillance; and is disconnected and locked by a safety device when not in use; and

the entrance to the site at which the equipment is being used shall clearly identify by means of a sign that remote controlled equipment is being used at that site. is not capable of firing a detonator.

A remote control unit used to operate equipment shall be operated only by the designated operator who is in charge of that equipment.

When a remote control unit is used to operate or move equipment, the employer shall maintain a log book setting out the make, model, serial number, identification code, frequency and maintenance record of the unit, and other particulars relating to the unit.

An employer shall ensure that a remote control unit

An employer shall ensure that the emergency switch referred to in paragraph (4)(c) is marked in red and operational when pressed.

The procedures for selecting or altering a frequency for a remote control unit shall be kept sealed.