New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

COAL MINES (OPEN CUT) REGULATION 1999 - REG 16

16 Notifiable incidents

(1) For the purposes of this clause, the following incidents are notifiable incidents:

(a) an outbreak of fire endangering persons or causing serious property damage,

(b) initial self-heating of the coal strata or overburden in a part of a mine,

(c) an abnormal inrush of water, or material that flows when wet, from any source such as to endanger persons or property,

(d) the receiving by a person of an electric shock from a source, or the suffering by a person of burns received from an electric circuit, that is above extra low voltage (as defined in Australian Standard 3000 (SAA Wiring Rules) ),

(e) the suffering by a person of bodily injury occasioned by an explosion or discharge of blasting material,

(f) an unplanned movement of a vehicle, machine or any item of plant or equipment such as to endanger persons or cause serious property damage,

(g) a fall, slumping, loss of strength, failure or collapse of the high wall, low wall or spoil area such as to endanger persons or property,

(h) a failure or collapse of any structure such as to endanger persons or property,

(i) an insurge of noxious or flammable gas from old workings,

(j) the ejection of flyrock outside the boundary of a mine's lease area during shotfiring such as to endanger persons or property.

(2) If a notifiable incident occurs at a mine the mine manager must ensure that the district inspector and the district check inspector are:

(a) notified of the incident immediately (in the form and manner specified, if any), and

(b) given an accurate description of the nature of the incident.

(3) The scene of the incident must be left undisturbed for 24 hours after the incident's occurrence (unless both the district inspector and the district check inspector earlier release the scene).

(4) Subclause (3) does not prevent reasonable measures being taken to secure health or safety at the scene of the incident.

(5) As soon as practicable after the incident's occurrence, the mine manager must ensure that:

(a) an investigation is carried out to establish the circumstances and cause of the incident, and

(b) a report (in the form and manner specified, if any) on the results of the investigation is submitted to the district inspector and district check inspector.

(6) In this clause, "serious property damage" means property damage that, in the opinion of the mine manager concerned, is serious property damage.