It is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act which is hereby published for general information:- ACTTo provide for protection of the health and safety of employees and other persons at mines and, for that purposeto promote a culture of health and safety; to provide for the enforcement of health and safety measures; to provide for appropriate systems of employee, employer and State participation in health and safety matters; to establish representative tripartite institutions to review legislation, promote health and enhance properly targeted research; to provide for effective monitoring systems and inspections, investigations and inquiries to improve health and safety; to promote training and human resources development; to regulate employers' and employees' duties to identify hazards and eliminate, control and minimise the risk to health and safety; to entrench the right to refuse to work in dangerous conditions; and to give effect to the public international law obligations of the Republic relating to mining health and safety; and to provide for matters connected therewith.(English text signed by the President.)

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Heavy rock falls of coal roof cause increased pressure load on powered roof support systems during the mining of first layers in seams III and IV-V of Tomusinsky coal field. Moreover, the complex morphology of the seam creates additional difficulties in downward working of seam layers. All these factors call for validation of thick flat-lying coal seams mining methods that involve longwall face layered floor mining as an alternative to any kind of artificially induced weakening of coal roof.

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