§ 30-3-102 — Reasonable safety regulations and precautions; enumeration of general safety rules; hazards to be posted; care of tools

(a) Reasonable safety regulations and precautions shall be
observed in all phases of all mining activities to provide a
safe place for persons to work and to avoid injury and accident.
(b) No apparatus, piece of equipment, machinery or tool
shall be used when not in good repair or working condition or
for any purpose for which it is not intended or suited.
(c) No work shall be permitted in any unsafe place unless
it is for the purpose of making the place safe, and then only by
experienced persons under the supervision of a qualified person.
(d) Special precautions shall be observed in operations
where gas has been found to exist in dangerous quantity.
(e) Appropriate signs shall be posted where dangerous or
temporary hazards exist.
(f) Good housekeeping shall be practiced in and around all
mining activities, including cleanliness, orderly and safe
storage of materials, and the removal of possible sources of
injury such as stumbling hazards, protruding nails, broken
glass, discarded equipment, supplies, containers, parts and
other similar objects or materials.
(g) Tools, except when in actual use, shall be kept in
racks, boxes, kits, or where they will create no hazard.