Queensland Consolidated Regulations

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 92

92 Working at heights

(1) A coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide for controlling risk associated with working at heights at the mine.

(2) If a person is required to work at a height greater than 2.4m, the system must provide for minimising the person’s risk of injury from falling.

(3) The system must include standard operating procedures for using personal protective equipment to control the risk.

(4) The system may provide for using the following plant to control the risk—

(a) work boxes and work platforms;

(b) scaffolding, barricades, hand rails and restraining or fall arresting devices.

(5) If the system provides for using plant mentioned in subsection (4) , the system must require the plant to be supplied for coal mine workers at the mine.

(6) If the system provides for the use of work boxes or work platforms, the system must state the circumstances in which the boxes or platforms may be suspended by a crane.