Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 227
A company that operates a cyanide warehouse facility that supplies or distributes cyanide to a gold processing plant shall
(a) satisfy the packaging requirements specified in regulation 228;
(b) keep personal protective equipment and cyanide first aid equipment on the site in accordance with regulations 222 and 223;
(c) conduct a detailed risk assessment of the potential for accidental release of solid cyanide, cyanide solution or HCN gas at the facility and the effect on employees at the warehouse facility, adjacent and nearby businesses and communities;
(d) develop emergency procedures to avoid harmful exposure or injury from cyanide and cyanide related products to members of the public and the environment;
(e) ensure that the facility is not situated in a densely populated or highly active business area;
(f) ensure that the facility is accessible to emergency services in the event of an incident or accident and ensure liaison with local emergency services on emergency planning not just for the facility but also for public roads, access ways leading to the facility and the property of the customer;
(g) ensure that the warehouse facility is situated in an area where there does not exist possible risk for surface run-off water or water run-off from a possible fire fighting event to pollute the environment;
(h) ensure that an automatic alarm system connected to a supervised monitoring service for security and to the local fire brigade for fire risks is installed and operational at the facility;
(i) implement and manage an effective access control policy to the warehouse facility and ensure that only authorised and competent persons enter;
(j) supply training including a general cyanide awareness, hazardous chemical response, personal protective equipment and cyanide first aid training, to employees who handle or transport cyanide to and at the warehouse facility or to its final destination;
(k) keep a formal cyanide stock inventory system including tracking features comprising among others stock numbers, weight, details of consignor and consignee which must indicate distribution to and from the facility;
(l) implement a formal traceability system for all cyanide containers and packaging which should include labelling or bar coding;
(m) implement a waste disposal system applicable to the specific warehouse site to prevent exposure of any cyanide or packaging material to the public domain;
(n) ensure that fire fighting equipment is compatible with cyanide in the event of fire and that persons working at the facility have been trained in its use; and
(o) ensure that appropriate lifting equipment is available for the loading and off-loading of cyanide and that personnel operating the lifting equipment have been trained and are competent in their use and that there is a pre-use checklist system to govern the effective and safe use of the equipment.
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