scope:

This Handbook provides guidance on the development and implementation of cable management systems, with a view to optimizing asset life, reducing costs, increasing productivity and controlling safety risks.

This Handbook covers underground and surface environments and the different sectors of the mining industry-metalliferous mines, coal mines and quarries.

It covers a range of cables, including reeling, trailing, feeder and high voltage cables, and outlines the principles involved in their design, manufacture, selection, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.