Queensland Consolidated Regulations

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 8

8 Notification of safety and health issues generally

(1) A coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide for effective notification to each person at the mine of the following—

(a) protocols for taking action in life threatening situations;

Example—

CPR protocols

(b) emergencies, and the location of known hazards, affecting the person’s safety or health.

(2) The system must provide for the following—

(a) giving the person immediate notification of matters relevant to the person’s safety or health during coal mining operations;

Example—

a notification about slippery road conditions

(b) the prompt summonsing of assistance in an emergency;

(c) assistance from external entities in an emergency;

(d) communicating with the external entities;

(e) access by inspectors to the external entities’ contact details;

(f) access by an inspector in the district in which the mine is located to an emergency contact number for the mine;

(g) for a surface mine—giving notification of known hazards in and around a surface mine excavation, including areas where mining activities are taking place, to the open-cut examiner responsible for the excavation;

(h) for an underground mine—giving notification of known hazards in an ERZ to the ERZ controller for the zone.