Queensland Consolidated Regulations

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 57

57 Possible major hazard facilities

(1) This section applies to a coal mine that meets the criteria for a major hazard facility under the NOHSC document entitled ‘National Standard for the Control of Major Hazard Facilities [NOHSC:1014]’.

(2) The mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the mine’s operations to be carried out in accordance with—

(a) this regulation; and

(b) for operations other than the preparation and use of explosives at a blast site—the national standard safety and health provisions—

(i) to the extent the provisions are consistent with the Act and this regulation; and

(ii) as if a reference in the provisions to the relevant public authority were a reference to the chief inspector of mines.

(3) In this section—

"national standard safety and health provisions" means sections 6 to 10 of the document mentioned in subsection (1) .