New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2002 - SECT 37

37 Operator must prepare management structure

(1) As part of the health and safety management system for a coal operation, the operator of the coal operation must prepare a document that sets out the management structure of the coal operation.

(2) The management structure must nominate people within the structure by position and must outline their areas of responsibility and accountability.

(3) The management structure for a coal operation that is a mine must include a competent person to perform the functions of the manager of mining engineering.

(4) The management structure must include competent people with appropriate mining, electrical and mechanical engineering competence.

(5) The management structure for an underground mine must include competent people to perform the functions of the manager of electrical engineering and the manager of mechanical engineering.

(6) The management structure for a coal operation must include competent people to perform the functions of supervisors of the operation.

(7) An operator must take all reasonable steps to maintain the management structure. This includes having others acting in, and the timely filling of, vacant positions in the structure.

(8) During an emergency, the management structure of a coal operation may be suspended and a different management structure may be put into place for the duration of the emergency.