Queensland Consolidated Regulations

MINING AND QUARRYING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

CHAPTER 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions

CHAPTER 2--WAYS OF ACHIEVING AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF RISK

           Part 1--Preliminary

   4.      Ways of achieving an acceptable level of risk

           Part 2--Safety and health risk management

           Division 1--Risk management practices and procedures

   5.      Risk management practices and procedures

           Division 2--Risk management process

   6.      Hazard identification
   7.      Risk analysis
   8.      Risk reduction
   9.      Risk monitoring

           Division 3--Records about risk management

   10.     Risk management record
   11.     Risk monitoring record

           Part 2A--Safety and health fee

   11A.    Definitions for pt 2A
   11B.    Meaning of responsible person
   11C.    Payment of safety and health fee
   11D.    Safety and health census to be given at the end of each quarter
   11E.    Notice may be given if safety and health census not given or is inadequate
   11F.    Fee for late safety and health census
   11G.    Interest payable on unpaid fees
   11H.    Refund of overpayment of safety and health fee

           Part 3--Accidents, incidents and injuries

   12.     First aid and medical treatment
   12A.    Prescribed types of high potential incidents—Act, s 195
   13.     Prescribed types of serious accidents and high potential incidents
   14.     Reporting accidents and high potential incidents
   15.     Site senior executive's investigation of incidents
   16.     Giving inspector details of accidents and high potential incidents

           Part 4--Electrical

           Division 1--Controlling electrical work

   17.     Appointment of persons to control electrical work
   18.     Acknowledgement of appointment

           Division 2--Notice of introduction or disconnection of electricity

   19.     Duty to give notice of proposed introduction or disconnection of electricity

           Division 3--Operating electrical equipment

   20.     Electrical plans and data
   21.     Working on electrical equipment that has explosion-protection

           Division 4--Control and protection for electrical equipment

   22.     General
   23.     Interrupting electricity supply to particular plant
   24.     Automatic control
   25.     Earthing
   26.     Earth leakage protection
   26A.    Basic safety principle
   27.     Isolation facilities
   28.     Protection for transportable and mobile equipment
   29.     Protection from live parts of electrical equipment
   30.     Prospective touch voltage
   31.     Voltage rise

           Part 5--Emergencies

   32.     Risk management for emergencies
   33.     Emergency preparedness—general
   35.     Emergency response plan
   36.     Evacuation
   36A.    Escapeways from underground
   37.     Refuges
   38.     Rescue
   39.     Resources for first aid and medical treatment
   40.     Maintaining and improving emergency response capability
   41.     Mine rescue plan

           Part 6--Facilities and processes

   42.     Dredging
   43.     Excavations
   44.     Ground control
   45.     Mine layout, design and construction
   46.     Mine roads
   47.     Rail haulage
   48.     Ventilation
   49.     Working at heights

           Part 7--Hazardous substances and dangerous goods

           Division 1--Provisions applying to all hazardous substances and dangerous goods
           Subdivision 1--Preliminary

   50.     Meaning of hazardous substance
   51.     Meaning of dangerous goods
           Subdivision 2--Information about hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   52.     MSDS and NICNAS summary report
   53.     Marking, labelling and giving information about hazardous substances and dangerous goods
           Subdivision 3--Dealing with hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   54.     Selecting hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   55.     Standard work instructions for storing, handling and using hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   56.     Storing and handling hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   57.     Monitoring, and taking action about, hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   58.     Dealing with leaks and spills
   59.     Disposal
           Subdivision 4--Major hazard facilities
   60.     Meaning of major hazard facility
   60A.    Meaning of possible major hazard facility
   60B.    Notifying chief inspector if mine is a major hazard facility or a possible major hazard facility
   60C.    Notifying chief inspector of certain upgrades of mines
   60D.    Notifying chief inspector of certain downgrades of mines
   60E.    Safety and health management system for mine that is a major hazard facility
   60F.    Safety report to chief inspector
           Subdivision 5--Miscellaneous
   61.     Register of hazardous substances and dangerous goods
   62.     Resources for complying with MSDS
   63.     Records

           Division 2--Explosives
           Subdivision 1--General

   64.     Persons who may handle explosives
   65.     Selecting explosives
   66.     Warning about explosives
   67.     Storing, transporting, using and disposing of explosives
   68.     Mine vehicles and equipment used for manufacturing, storing and transporting explosives
           Subdivision 2--Blasting procedures
   69.     Identifying interaction hazards before explosives are used
   70.     Blasting procedures
   71.     Blasting in hot material
   72.     Misfires
   73.     Disposing of explosives
           Subdivision 3--Storing explosives underground at underground mines
   74.     Underground storage
   75.     Underground storage location
   76.     Underground magazine design
   77.     Underground temporary storage
   78.     Record of underground storages
           Subdivision 4--Miscellaneous
   79.     Theft or other loss of explosives
   79A.    Accountability for explosives

           Part 8--Mine plans

   80.     Survey grid system
   81.     Protecting survey data against loss, damage or unauthorised access
   82.     Plans of mine workings
   83.     Plans of operations undertaken at abandoned mine

           Part 9--Persons on site

           Division 1--Fitness

   84.     Alcohol and drugs
   85.     Fitness of workers
   86.     Worker's self-assessment of fitness level
   87.     Assessing workers to decide fitness level
   88.     Fitness of visitors
   89.     Work hours and rest breaks
   90.     Amenities for workers' fitness and health

           Division 2--Training and assessment

   91.     Induction training and assessment
   92.     Persons who have not completed induction training
   93.     Training
   94.     Record of training

           Division 3--Carrying out tasks

   95.     Time and resources for carrying out tasks
   96.     Supervising workers
   97.     Communicating with workers working alone underground
   98.     Checking work quality

           Division 4--Miscellaneous

   99.     Entering a workplace

           Part 10--Plant generally

           Division 1--Selection and design

   100.    Selection and design
   101.    Instrumentation and warning devices
   102.    Plant controls and control systems
   103.    Isolation facility

           Division 2--Other provisions about plant

   104.    Manufacture, construction, storage, transport and installation
   105.    Commissioning
   106.    Operating plant
   107.    Isolating, locking-out and tagging plant
   108.    Monitoring
   109.    Service and maintenance
   110.    Repair and modification
   111.    Dismantling and demolition

           Division 3--Information and records

   112.    Specifications, instructions and other information about plant
   113.    Records

           Part 11--Procedures and standard work instructions

   114.    Procedures and standard work instructions for particular operations
   115.    Accessing current procedures and standard work instructions
   116.    Written procedures
   117.    Standard work instructions

           Part 12--Records generally

   118.    Way records must be kept
   119.    Period for which particular records must be kept
   120.    Confidentiality of worker's medical record

           Part 13--Winding operations

           Division 1--Preliminary

   121.    Application of pt 13

           Division 2--Controlling winding operations

   122.    Appointment of persons to control winding operations
   123.    Acknowledgement of appointment

           Division 3--Safety provisions for winding equipment

   124.    Control measures to protect against persons and things falling into shafts
   125.    Conveyances
   126.    Winders
   127.    Other safety provisions for winding equipment

           Division 4--Miscellaneous

   128.    Monitoring and maintaining winding equipment
   129.    Testing winding equipment after particular events
   130.    Signalling and communication

           Part 14--Work environment

           Division 1--Managing risk from exposure to hazards generally
           Subdivision 1--Health assessments

   131.    Health assessment of workers
   132.    Health assessment of visitors
           Subdivision 2--Limiting exposure to hazards
   133.    Exposure limits for workers
   134.    Adjusting exposure limits for hazards for workers
   135.    Limiting workers' exposure
   136.    Monitoring workers' exposure
   137.    Tampering with monitoring samples and results
   138.    Health surveillance
   139.    Removing affected worker from work environment
   140.    Using personal protective equipment

           Division 2--Managing risk from exposure to particular hazards

   141.    Asbestos material installed in buildings and plant
   142.    Asbestos, other than asbestos material installed in buildings and plant
   143.    Heat
   144.    Oxygen
   145.    Radiation

           Part 15--Miscellaneous

   146.    Access to Act and regulation
   147.    Workers' access to guidelines
   148.    Prohibited substances

CHAPTER 3--MISCELLANEOUS

   149.    Declarations about mines—Act, s 9
   150.    Prescribed number of persons for giving facility
   151.    Fees

CHAPTER 4--TRANSITIONAL PROVISION FOR MINING AND OTHER LEGISLATION (SAFETY AND HEALTH) AMENDMENT REGULATION (NO. 1) 2008

   152.    Provision about safety and health fee payable on or before 31 October 2008
           SCHEDULE 1 -- TYPES OF HIGH POTENTIAL INCIDENTS FOR SECTION 195 OF THE ACT
           SCHEDULE 2 -- TYPES OF SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AND HIGH POTENTIAL INCIDENTS
           SCHEDULE 3 -- PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES
           SCHEDULE 4 -- DECLARATIONS ABOUT MINES
           SCHEDULE 5 -- GENERAL EXPOSURE LIMITS FOR HAZARDS
           SCHEDULE 6 -- BOARD OF EXAMINERS' FEES
           SCHEDULE 7 -- DICTIONARY
           Endnotes