Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)

Regulations

Guideline for a Mandatory Code of Practice

Safe Use of Conveyor Belt Installations for the Transportation of Mineral, Material or Personnel

Annexures

Annexure B: Minimum Performance Standards

Conveyor System Protection Devices

Stop/Start
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A belt conveyor system is usually provided with one or more control stations for operators. Start stations normally require a momentary operator input to initiate a start sequence. Stop stations monitor a maintained input for a run permissive. Many conveyors are started and stopped from a central control room.

 

Complex belts have many operator stations distributed at various physical locations.

 

A stop/start station is a control device and shall not be considered a lock out of the conveyor power source.