# The Coal and Other Safety-Lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993, Regulation 22: Persons who may carry out shotfiring operations


(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person except a shotfirer or trainee shotfirer shall carry out shotfiring operations.
(2) Nothing in–
(a) regulation 10(2)(c) or paragraph (1) shall prevent not more than one person from inserting into a shothole any part of a charge which is not a primed cartridge when he does so under the close personal supervision of a shotfirer; or
(b) paragraph (1) shall prevent several persons from stemming shotholes when they do so under the supervision of a shotfirer.
(3) The manager shall ensure that each shotfiring operation is carried out by or under the supervision of a single shotfirer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/208/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993/regulation-22
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