2In this Regulation
“Act” means the Occupational Health and Safety Act; (Loi)
“adequate” ’ means sufficient to protect a person from the risk of injury or damage to health; (convenable)
“air contaminant” means any gas, fume, smoke, vapour, dust or other airborne concentration of a substance that may be hazardous to the health or safety of a person; (polluant)
“blast” means the explosion of a charge or a number of charges either simultaneously or consecutively; (sautage)
“bootleg” means a remnant of a blast-hole that has been charged and fired and that has been determined not to contain any explosive after a charge has been fired; (culot de mine)
“breaking strength” , with respect to rope, means the amount of tension that can be exerted on a sample of rope before it breaks; (résistance à la rupture)
“bulkhead” means a structure for the impoundment of water, compressed air or any material, constructed in an underground opening in such a way so as to completely close off the opening; (cloison)
“cartridge” means a rigid or semi-rigid package of explosive enclosed in a wrapping of material; (cartouche)
“charge” , with respect to an explosive, means an explosive loaded in a hole or to load an explosive in a hole; (charge)
“climbing conveyance” means a conveyance, work platform or cab that travels on an inclined to vertical suspended track containing a rack and that has one or more drive motors that drive pinions engaging the rack; (transporteur ascendant)
“committee” means the joint health and safety committee; (comité)
“competent” means
(compétent)
(a)
qualified, because of such factors as knowledge, training and experience, to do assigned work in a manner that will ensure the health and safety of persons,
(b)
knowledgeable about the provisions of the Act and the regulations that apply to the assigned work, and
(c)
knowledgeable about potential or actual danger to health or safety connected with the assigned work;
“CSA” means the Canadian Standards Association; (ACNOR)
“dam” means a structure built for the purpose of impounding water in an underground opening and constructed so as to permit an unobstructed overflow of the water; (barrage)
“danger area” means twice the distance at which there exists the possibility of a hazard to a person or property from the effects of a blast; (aire de danger)
“destructive test” , with respect to rope, means a test on a sample of rope where the rope is broken during the test by a tensile testing machine; (essai destructif)
“detonator” means a device used to initiate a blast and includes a blasting cap, an electric wire when connected to a blasting cap, a detonating cord and a flash-thru tube, gas tube or shock tube; (détonateur)
“development face” means any underground excavation heading in which there is only one free face; (paroi de travail)
“drum hoist” means a hoisting device where the rope is wound on one or more drums; (treuil à tambour)
“engineer” means a person who
(ingénieur)
(a)
is registered as a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of New Brunswick,
(b)
has received a licence from the Executive Council of the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of New Brunswick, or
(c)
is practising as a professional engineer in New Brunswick under subsection 10(7) of the
Engineering Profession Act;
“explosive” means a substance that is made, manufactured or used to produce an explosion or detonation and includes black powder, propellant powders, blasting agents, dynamite, slurry, watergel and detonators; (explosif)
“factor of safety” , with respect to rope, means the number of times the breaking strength of a rope at a defined point exceeds the total mass it supports; (facteur de sécurité)
“fall-arresting system” means a fall-arresting system as defined in the General Regulation - Occupational Health and Safety Act;(système d’arrêt de chute)
“friction hoist” means a hoisting device where the driving force between the drum and rope or ropes supporting the shaft conveyance is obtained through friction; (treuil à friction)
“guardrail” means a guardrail as defined in the General Regulation - Occupational Health and Safety Act; (garde-corps)
“haulageway” means a road, ramp, level, adit or other surface used primarily to move vehicles from one place to another; (voie de roulage)
“hoist” means a drum hoist or a friction hoist used for transporting persons or materials in an underground mine; (treuil)
“individual fall-arresting system” Repealed: 2010-160
“mine hoisting plant” means a system used for lowering or raising materials or people between the surface and underground and includes a hoist with associated equipment, the headframe, sheaves, shaft ropes, shaft conveyances, counterweights, shaft-sinking equipment, shaft furnishings, signalling and communication equipment and any other equipment used with the system; (installation de treuil minier)
“mining machine” means a machine that extracts and loads any metallic or non-metallic mineral or mineral-bearing substance or waste; (machine minière)
“misfire” means a remnant of a blast-hole that still contains explosive after a charge has been fired; (raté)
“mobile equipment” means self-propelled equipment that is steered and includes wheeled or tracked equipment but does not include equipment that travels on rails or a mining machine; (équipement mobile)
“non-destructive test” means the examination of a part of an object by a method where the part is not subjected to any physical damage or distortion; (essai non destructif)
“portable storage box” means a portable storage box for explosives; (caisse d’entreposage portable)
“prime mover” means a source of motive power that drives an electric generator; (source motrice initiale)
“primed cartridge” means a cartridge into which a hole is punched and a detonator is inserted; (cartouche amorcée)
“rockburst” means a seismic event resulting in an expulsion from a rock face; (écaillement de roches)
“seismic event” means an earthquake or vibration caused by the sudden adjustment of rock stresses; (secousse sismique)
“shaft conveyance” means an apparatus raised or lowered by a hoist in a shaft and includes a bucket, a single or multi-deck cage, a skip or a combination of skips and cage; (transporteur de puits)
“shaft rope” includes a hoisting, balance, guide or rubbing rope; (câble de puits)
“threshold limit value” means a threshold limit value adopted by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and set out in the publication entitled 1992-1993 Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices; (valeur limite d’exposition)
“travelway” means a path, adit, ramp, level, walkway, catwalk, escapeway, ladderway, stairway or other surface used primarily by persons to move from one area to another; (voie de circulation)
“underground blasting operation” means an operation using explosives underground and extends from the time explosives are removed from underground storage or delivered to and kept at the loading area, whichever occurs first, to the time the explosives are used and any surplus explosives are returned to storage; (opération de sautage souterrain)
“underground mine” means a mine where the workings extend below ground level and are not generally visible from the surface except for shafthead buildings or portal houses.(mine souterraine)