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COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 41

Safety and health management system for alcohol

41 Safety and health management system for alcohol

(1) A coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide for controlling risks at the mine associated with the excessive consumption of alcohol.
(2) The system must provide for the following about alcohol consumption for persons at the mine—
(a) an education program;
(b) an employee assistance program;
(c) the following assessments to decide a person’s fitness for work—
(i) voluntary self-testing;
(ii) random testing before starting work;
(iii) testing the person if someone else reasonably suspects the person is under the influence of alcohol.
(3) In developing the fitness provisions, the site senior executive for the mine must comply with section 10 , other than section 10 (1) (a) , as if—
(a) a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the fitness provisions; and
(b) a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers.
(4) In this section—

"fitness provisions" means the part of the safety and health management system that provides for the things mentioned in subsection (2) .



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