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MINES WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS) REGULATIONS 2022 (S.R. 2022, NO. 117) - REG 13

Contents of health and safety management systems
(1)  For the purposes of section 20(5)(a) of the Act, it is a requirement for a health and safety management system that it include the following:
(a) documentation of the management structure, for the mine, established as required by section 31 of the Act;
(b) each major hazard management plan required under these regulations;
(c) processes and procedures for –
(i) identifying hazards; and
(ii) risk assessments; and
(iii) the elimination or, where elimination is not reasonably practicable, management, of the risks to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates; and
(iv) the reliable implementation of the management of the risks to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates; and
(v) ongoing monitoring and review of the risks to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates;
(d) an emergency plan in relation to the mine, including the emergency response plan referred to in regulation 15 ;
(e) provision for the review and improvement, as required under regulation 14 , of the health and safety management system;
(f) a fitness-for-work program required under regulation 16 ;
(g) a health monitoring program required under regulation 17 .
(2)  In complying with the requirements relating to the health and safety management system for a mine, the mine operator must consider the relevance of any guidance material applicable to the mine.
Penalty:  In the case of –
(a) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $13 000; and
(b) an individual, a fine not exceeding $6 500.



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