Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINING AND QUARRYING SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1999 - SECT 55

55 Safety and health management system

(1) The safety and health management system, for a mine, is a single system that incorporates risk management elements and practices that ensure the safety and health of persons who may be affected by operations.

(2) The safety and health management system must be a single, auditable documented system that—

(a) forms part of an overall management system; and

(b) includes organisational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures and resources for developing, implementing, maintaining and reviewing a safety and health policy.

(3) The safety and health management system must provide a single, comprehensive and integrated system for the management of all aspects of risks to safety and health in relation to the operation of the mine including any remote operating centre, or the remote operation of plant or equipment, for the mine.

(4) The safety and health management system for a mine must be in place before operations start at the mine.

(5) The safety and health management system must be effective to achieve an acceptable level of risk by—

(a) defining the operator’s safety and health policy; and

(b) containing a plan to implement the operator’s safety and health policy; and

(c) stating how the operator intends to develop the capabilities and support mechanisms necessary to achieve the policy; and

(d) including procedures for the operation of the mine and standard work instructions; and

(e) containing a way of—

(i) measuring, monitoring and evaluating the performance of the safety and health management system; and

(ii) taking the action necessary to prevent or correct matters that do not conform with the safety and health management system; and

(f) containing a plan to regularly review and continually improve the safety and health management system so that risk to persons at the mine is at an acceptable level; and

(g) if there is a significant change to the mining operations of the mine, containing a plan to immediately review the safety and health management system so that risk to persons is at an acceptable level.

(6) The site senior executive must make available for inspection, by workers employed at the mine, and ROC workers employed for the mine, a copy of the safety and health management system.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.