Queensland Consolidated Regulations

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 85

85 Coal mine worker or ROC worker not to carry out task unless competent

(1) This section applies only to a task designated, under a coal mine’s training scheme, as a task that may only be carried out by a person who has been assessed as competent to carry the task out.

(2) A coal mine worker at the coal mine, or operational ROC worker for the coal mine, must not carry out the task unless the worker—

(a) has been assessed as competent; and

(b) is authorised by the mine’s site senior executive or the site senior executive’s representative, to carry out the task at or for the coal mine.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a task carried out by a person—

(a) in the course of training; or

(b) in an emergency.