Queensland Consolidated Acts

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1999 - SECT 106

106 Site senior executive to tell site safety and health representatives about certain things

(1) A site senior executive for a coal mine must tell a site safety and health representative at the mine about the following things—

(a) an injury or illness to a person from coal mining operations that causes an absence from work of the person;

(b) a high potential incident happening at the coal mine;

(c) any proposed changes to the coal mine, or plant or substances used at the coal mine, that affect, or may affect, the safety and health of persons at the mine;

(d) the presence of an inspector or inspection officer at the coal mine if the representative is at the mine;

(e) a directive given by an inspector, inspection officer or industry safety and health representative about a matter.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(2) For subsection (1) , the site senior executive must tell each representative as soon as practicable after the thing comes to the site senior executive’s knowledge.