Open Pit Coal Mining Operation

This document establishes requirements and recommendations for managing mining legacies. It can be used by any public, private or community enterprise, or group, but is deemed particularly relevant to government and the mining industry who have a legal right or obligation to manage mining legacies.

This document encompasses a range of activities that are relevant to planning, implementing and stewardship, performance and reporting when managing mining legacies while engaging stakeholders throughout the process. It is applicable to all mining legacies from large complex sites to medium and small mines.

This document describes a simple classification system for coals providing

— guidance on the selection of the appropriate ISO standard procedures for the analyses and testing of coals,

— international comparison of coals in terms of some key characteristics,

— descriptive categorization of coals.

The system is applicable to coals of all ranks, but care is required in relation to the classification of some types of coal.

The system can be applied to a wide range of representative coal samples, provided their exact nature is stated. Such samples include bore-core seam sections and composite samples, raw (as-mined) coal, washed coal, blends of coals of similar rank and selected, specified size fractions.

The system provides a broad framework within which coals can be assessed. The selection of coals for a specific use requires detailed information that enables the likely performance of a coal in a particular application to be anticipated.

ISO 9001:2015 specifies requirements for a quality management system when an organization:

a) needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and

b) aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

All the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 are generic and are intended to be applicable to any organization, regardless of its type or size, or the products and services it provides.

ISO 14001:2015 specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to enhance its environmental performance. ISO 14001:2015 is intended for use by an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability.

ISO 14001:2015 helps an organization achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system, which provide value for the environment, the organization itself and interested parties. Consistent with the organization's environmental policy, the intended outcomes of an environmental management system include:

· enhancement of environmental performance;

· fulfilment of compliance obligations;

· achievement of environmental objectives.

ISO 14001:2015 is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, and applies to the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines it can either control or influence considering a life cycle perspective.

This document specifies performance and design requirements for air quality control systems for operator enclosures and their monitoring devices. The design specifications are universal in their application and do not contemplate specific mining environments. They are intended to meet identified parameters of both pressurization and respirable particulate and carbon dioxide concentrations.

ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance.

ISO 45001:2018 is applicable to any organization that wishes to establish, implement and maintain an OH&S management system to improve occupational health and safety, eliminate hazards and minimize OH&S risks (including system deficiencies), take advantage of OH&S opportunities, and address OH&S management system nonconformities associated with its activities.

ISO 45001:2018 helps an organization to achieve the intended outcomes of its OH&S management system. Consistent with the organization's OH&S policy, the intended outcomes of an OH&S management system include:

a) continual improvement of OH&S performance;

b) fulfilment of legal requirements and other requirements;

c) achievement of OH&S objectives.

ISO 45001:2018 is applicable to any organization regardless of its size, type and activities. It is applicable to the OH&S risks under the organization's control, taking into account factors such as the context in which the organization operates and the needs and expectations of its workers and other interested parties.

ISO 45001:2018 does not state specific criteria for OH&S performance, nor is it prescriptive about the design of an OH&S management system.

ISO 45001:2018 enables an organization, through its OH&S management system, to integrate other aspects of health and safety, such as worker wellness/wellbeing.

ISO 45001:2018 does not address issues such as product safety, property damage or environmental impacts, beyond the risks to workers and other relevant interested parties.

ISO 45001:2018 can be used in whole or in part to systematically improve occupational health and safety management.

ISO 19224:2017 deals with safety requirements for continuous surface miners (CSM). It specifies common requirements for the design and construction of CSM to protect workers from accidents and health hazards that can occur during operation, loading, transport and maintenance.

ISO 19224:2017 deals with known significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to CSM, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Annex A).

ISO 19224:2017 also specifies the appropriate technical measures to eliminate or reduce risks arising from the significant hazards as identified in Annex A.

ISO 19224:2017 is not applicable to CSM manufactured before the date of its publication.

This document provides guidance related to the necessary mine closure and reclamation planning activities for new and operating mines. Recommendations are provided on:

—    closure and reclamation of a mine site;

—    land reclamation and water management;

—    stakeholder engagement;

—    decision and analysis tools.

The following aspects of closure and reclamation are not addressed in this document:

—    infrastructure such as rail lines, ports, off-site ore loaders, power stations, etc. that are associated with the mine operation, but which are not located at the mine site;

—    detailed survey, testing or monitoring methods, detailed engineering procedures, detailed product requirements, or detailed construction and operational procedures; occupational health and safety management related to closure and reclamation, construction and exploration activities;

—    relinquishment of a closed and reclaimed mine site, or portions thereof, to a party (governmental or private entity) not related to the mine operator;

—    specific requirements for dealing with the radiological aspects of mine closure and reclamation, such as those that occur at uranium mining and processing facilities and other mines at which naturally occurring radioactive materials are present; however, the other aspects associated with closure and reclamation of these mines are included in this document; and

—    closure and reclamation of abandoned mines.

This document specifies the safety requirements for self-propelled mobile machines used in underground mining, as defined in 3.1.

This document deals with hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events (see Annex B) relevant to these machines when they are used as intended or under conditions of misuse reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.

For utility/service/support machines, this document only includes provisions to address the risks associated with the mobility (movement of the whole machine from one location to another). Risks for the additional functions (e.g. scaling, concrete spraying, bolting, charging, drilling, attachments) are not covered in this document.

This document specifies the appropriate technical measures for eliminating or sufficiently reducing risks arising from hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events during commissioning, operation and maintenance.

This document does not address:

— the additional risks for machines operating in potentially explosive atmospheres;

— air quality and engine emissions.

This document is not applicable to:

— machines constrained to operate by rails;

— continuous miners, roadheaders, drill rigs, conveyors, long wall production equipment, tunnel boring machines (TBM), and mobile crushers.

ISO 9000:2015 describes the fundamental concepts and principles of quality management which are universally applicable to the following:

• organizations seeking sustained success through the implementation of a quality management system;
• customers seeking confidence in an organization's ability to consistently provide products and services conforming to their requirements;
• organizations seeking confidence in their supply chain that their product and service requirements will be met;
• organizations and interested parties seeking to improve communication through a common understanding of the vocabulary used in quality management;
• organizations performing conformity assessments against the requirements of ISO 9001;
• providers of training, assessment or advice in quality management;
• developers of related standards.

ISO 9000:2015 specifies the terms and definitions that apply to all quality management and quality management system standards developed by ISO/TC 176.

This document establishes a classification of brown coals and lignites by types on the basis of total moisture mass fraction and tar yield.

This document defines terms commonly employed in the sampling, testing and analysis of coal (3.39) and coke (3.42).

Alternative names are given for several terms. In some cases, the use of the alternative name is deprecated (as indicated).

This document establishes a practice for the proximate analysis of coal and coke. It is intended for general utilization by the coal industry to provide a basis for comparison of coals and coke and for the determination of fixed carbon.

ISO 7135:2009 establishes terminology and the content of commercial literature specifications for self-propelled crawler and wheeled hydraulic excavators and their equipment and attachments.

ISO 7132:2003 establishes a terminology for, and the content of, commercial literature specifications for self-propelled dumpers (including compact dumpers), as defined in ISO 6165, used in earth moving.

Sets out safety rules relating to continuous mechanical handling equipment, including its construction, installation, utilization and maintenance, to ensure that it is used to the best advantage, and to prevent any accidents or failures that could arise from misuse. These rules provide precise directives necessary to comply with legal texts and requirements decreed by governmental bodies in certain countries.

This document is a supplementary document to the International standard for managing mining legacies (ISO 24419-1) that provides illustrative case studies and resources providing further reading. The content provided in this document covers various regions of the world as a supplement to ISO 24419-1. The purpose is to provide insight into specific case studies that show how practitioners have addressed mining legacy challenges in practice.

This document specifies the commonly used terms in mine extraction.

This document gives guidance on the selection and application of tools that can be used in a quality management system to:

a)       characterize a process or a variable;

b)       facilitate problem solving;

c)        highlight areas for improvement;

d)       improve effectiveness.

Specifies a method which, subject to limitations imposed by the geometry of the pulverized-coal pipe, is applicable to multipoint sampling. Annexes A, B and C are for information only.

This document specifies a method, using a graticule with 20 crossline intersections, for determining the proportions of microlithotypes, carbominerite and minerite in coals. It applies only to determinations made on polished particulate blocks using reflected white light. Additional blue, blue-violet or UV light excitation for better identification of liptinite in fluorescence can be used especially for low rank coals.

ISO 6016:2008 specifies methods for measuring the masses of whole earth-moving machines, their equipment, attachments or components, using weighbridges or force transducers. It also defines the terms related to these masses.

It is applicable to earth-moving machinery as defined in ISO 6165.

Specifies the general methods for preservation and removal of preservation materials from earth-moving machinery and its elements, and the categories of storage and transportation conditions. Applies to newly manufactured earth-moving machines as well as to those already in use to be preserved.

ISO 19225:2017 specifies safety requirements to minimize the hazards listed in Clause 4 that can occur during the assembly, use, maintenance, repair, decommissioning, disassembly and disposal of shearer loaders and plough systems when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer, in underground mining.

ISO 19225:2017 does not cover any hazards resulting from explosive atmospheres. Requirements for explosive atmospheres can be found in ISO/IEC 80079‑38.

ISO 19225:2017 is not applicable to machines that are manufactured before the date of its publication.