Queensland Consolidated Regulations

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 35

35 General

(1) A coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide for managing emergencies at the mine.

(2) The system must provide for the following—

(a) identifying, by risk assessment, potential emergency situations;

(b) minimising risks associated with potential emergency situations;

(c) carrying out aided rescue and self-escape of persons from the mine in an emergency;

(d) carrying out emergency exercises, including testing the effectiveness of emergency management procedures and the readiness and fitness of equipment for use in an emergency;

(e) auditing and reviewing the emergency exercises;

(f) if the mine is a surface mine—involving an open-cut examiner for the mine in—

(i) developing and testing the emergency management procedures for activities, including mining activities, in and around the surface excavation at the mine; and

(ii) auditing the documentation for the procedures;

(g) if the mine is an underground mine—involving an ERZ controller for the mine in—

(i) developing and testing the emergency management procedures for explosion risk zones; and

(ii) auditing the documentation for the procedures.