Matters about safety and health
Part 2 Matters about safety and health
1 Coal mining operations and installations and equipment at coal mines, including the operation of the working environment.
2 Prescribing standard operating procedures and requirements for coal mines, including for emergencies at coal mines.
3 Ways to investigate for, identify and assess hazards at coal mines.
4 Prescribing the tasks for which the committee is to establish and publish competencies.
5 Investigations and reports by coal mine operators of accidents and incidents at coal mines.
6 Reports of diseases affecting coal mine workers.
7 Prescribing activities at coal mines for which standard operating procedures are to be developed and situations in which those procedures must be developed.
8 Prescribing activities at coal mines for which principal hazard management plans must be developed.
9 Records to be kept and returns to be lodged by coal mine operators and requirements as to inspection of the records.
10 Notices to be given and the persons by whom and to whom the notices are to be given.
11 Mines rescue capability or the provision of mines rescue services under part 13.
12 Prohibiting the consumption or ingestion of alcohol or another substance that could impair the ability of persons to adequately and safely carry out their duties or that may endanger the life, safety or health of anyone at a coal mine.
13 Prohibiting a person carrying out activities at a coal mine while under the influence of alcohol or another substance that could impair the ability of a person to adequately and safely carry out their duties or that may endanger the life, safety or health of anyone at a coal mine.
14 The mine record, its custody and care, information to be entered in it and persons who may be required to make entries.
15 Materials or objects to be classified as contraband.
16 Proceedings of the board of examiners.
17 Proceedings of the committee.
18 Safety and health duties of coal mine workers, including reporting requirements.
19 Monitoring requirements to safeguard safety and health.
20 Design requirements, monitoring, testing and other safeguards for the use of electrical equipment and electricity.
21 Design requirements, monitoring, testing and other safeguards for the use of mechanical equipment and appliances.
22 The equipment for which certificates must be obtained from nationally accredited testing stations.
23 Requirements for the safe use of explosives.
24 Exposure levels for toxic chemicals, substances and other potentially debilitating disturbances that may affect health.
25 Protection barriers or other precautions necessary to protect coal mines from hazards that may engulf workings.
26 Exits in underground mines from workings to surface.
27 Survey plans, including how often plans must be given to the CEO.
28 Special rules that may from time to time be required to address health or safety problems at a specified mine.
29 The health of persons who are, will be or have been employed at a coal mine, including about—
the appointment, qualifications and removal of doctors and other health practitioners for mines; and
pre-employment and periodic medical examinations and health assessments to decide a person’s fitness for work at a coal mine and for the purpose of health surveillance; and
the ownership, storage, confidentiality and release of the results of medical examinations and health assessments; and
reciprocal arrangements between coal mining operations for the exchange of information or the recognition of medical examinations or health assessments.
29A Requirements for holders of certificates of competency or site senior executive notices to undertake continuing professional development decided by the board of examiners.
29B Matters relating to board qualifications.
30 Matters relating to common survey standards.
31 The responsibilities and duties of open-cut examiners.
32 Requirements, in addition to the requirement under section 62A, for safety and health management systems to identify, assess, mitigate, remediate, monitor and report on the potential of the impacts of coal mining operations on the safety of adjacent or overlapping petroleum activities, including requirements for joint interaction management plans.
32A The responsibilities and obligations of site senior executives in an overlapping area including in relation to joint interaction management plans.
33 Requirements to identify, assess, mitigate, remediate, monitor and report on the potential of coal seam gas extraction activities on the future safe carrying out of coal mining operations, including coal seam gas exploration and production activities at coal mines.
34 The granting of exemptions by the chief inspector from complying with all or part of the requirements of a regulation made under part 1, item 3 or 4, for a stated coal mining operation at a coal mine or for a stated coal seam.
35 Without limiting items 1 to 34, another matter about safety and health.
sch 2 amd 2004 No. 25 s 944 (amd 2004 No. 26 s 256); 2005 No. 3 s 105 sch; 2007 No. 36 s 2 sch; 2007 No. 46 s 42 (amdt could not be given effect); 2010 No. 17 s 17 sch; 2014 No. 64 s 211; 2018 No. 28 s 48; 2020 No. 10 s 139 sch 2; 2024 No. 34 s 101
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