Queensland Consolidated Regulations

MINING AND QUARRYING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 107

107 Isolating, locking-out and tagging plant

(1) A mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the following matters—

(a) isolating plant, including effectively isolating plant to control the risk from a release of energy;

(b) taking plant out of service;

(c) testing plant or its energy source for zero potential;

(d) returning plant to service.

(2) The site senior executive for a mine that is not required to have a safety and health management system under the Act must ensure the mine has a standard work instruction for the activities mentioned in subsection (1) (a) to (d) .

(3) If the safety or health of a person is directly affected by the operation or non-operation of plant, the system or standard work instruction must also provide for locking-out and tagging the plant.