Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2001

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Queensland
Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999
Coal Mining Safety and Health
Regulation 2001
Current as at 1 July 2014
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Contents
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Chapter 1 Preliminary
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 2 All coal mines
Part 1 Preliminary
4 Application of ch 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5 Ways of achieving an acceptable level of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Part 2 Safety and health management system
Division 1 General
6 Basic elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6A Potential hazard guide—coal seam gas or petroleum . . . . . . . . . 21
7 Keeping information and data on which risk assessment is based 21
8 Notification of safety and health issues—generally . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Division 2 Standard operating procedures
9 Application of requirement to have a standard operating procedure for a
hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10 Developing standard operating procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
11 Accessing standard operating procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Division 3 Recognised standards
12 Accessing recognised standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Division 4 Plan to manage overlapping or adjacent leases
12A Application of div 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
12B Plan to manage overlapping or adjacent leases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Part 2A Safety and health fee
12C Definitions for pt 2A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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12D Meaning of responsible person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
12E Payment of safety and health fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
12F Safety and health census to be given at the end of each quarter 28
12G Notice may be given if safety and health census not given or is
inadequate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
12H Fee for late safety and health census. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
12I Interest payable on unpaid fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
12J Refund of overpayment of safety and health fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Part 2B Election of site safety and health representatives
12K When election under Act, s 93 must be held . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
12L Who is to conduct election under Act, s 93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
12M Obligations of entity or entities conducting election . . . . . . . . . . . 33
12N State to pay reasonable costs of qualified body in conducting election34
12O Term of appointment if coal mine workers do not decide term of
appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
12P Method of election for election under Act, s 94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
12Q When site safety and health representative is removed from office—Act,
s 96(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Part 3 Accidents, high potential incidents and injuries
13 Prescribed types of high potential incidents—Act, s 198 . . . . . . . 35
14 Prescribed types of serious accidents and high potential incidents—Act,
ss 200 and 201. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
15 Investigating accidents and incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
16 Giving notice of incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Part 4 Electrical activities, equipment and installations
Division 1 Electrical activities
Subdivision 1 Controlling and managing electrical engineering activities
17 Qualifications for appointment as electrical engineering manager 37
18 Duties of electrical engineering manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Subdivision 2 Other provisions about electrical activities
19 Duty to give notice of proposed introduction of electricity . . . . . . 38
20 Competencies of persons carrying out work on electrical equipment 38
21 Access to exposed electrical conductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
22 Locating and dealing with electrical faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Division 2 Electrical equipment and installations
Subdivision 1 General
23 Design, installation and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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24 Isolators for equipment driven by electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Subdivision 2 Electrical control systems
25 Standard for electrical control systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
26 Control circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
27 Modification of electrical control systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Subdivision 3 Electrical protection
28 Electrical protection for power outlets for low voltage electrical
equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
29 Operating times and tripping current for circuit protection devices 44
30 Changing electrical protection settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
31 Unearthed electrical installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Subdivision 4 Electrical drawings and plans
32 Drawings of electrical installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
33 Plan of coal mine’s communication system and main electrical
installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Subdivision 5 Records about electrical activities, equipment and
installations
34 Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Part 5 Emergencies
35 General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
36 Visitors’ self-escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
37 Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
38 First aid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Part 6 Fitness for work
Division 1 General
39 Consumption of alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
40 Carrying out an activity, or entering a place, while under the influence of
alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
41 Safety and health management system for alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . 51
42 Safety and health management system for personal fatigue and other
physical and psychological impairment, and drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 52
43 Dealing with records and information about a person’s fitness for work
54
Division 2 Coal mine workers’ health scheme
Subdivision 1 Preliminary
44 Application of div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Subdivision 2 Nominated medical adviser
45 Appointment of nominated medical adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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Subdivision 3 Health assessments and health monitoring
46 Health assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
47 Employer’s responsibility for health assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
48 Reviewing health assessment report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
48A Conflicting health assessment reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
49 Monitoring for workers’ exposure to hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Subdivision 4 Records
50 Records about health assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
51 Ownership of health assessment records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
52 Confidentiality of medical record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
53 Records of monitoring for workers’ exposure to hazards . . . . . . . 63
Part 7 Hazardous substances
54 Meaning of hazardous substance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
55 Hazardous substance register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
56 Using hazardous substances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
57 Possible major hazard facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Part 8 Mine plans and other information about mines
58 Accuracy of plans and information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
59 Survey grid system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
60 Record of drilling activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
60A Borehole abandonment record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
61 Plans of coal mine workings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
62 Plans of highwall mining underground excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
63 Mine rescue plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Part 9 Personal protective equipment
64 Providing personal protective equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
65 Standard operating procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Part 10 Plant
Division 1 Fixed and mobile plant
66 Braking systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
67 Machine guarding or fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
68 Modifying plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
69 Pre-start warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
70 Safe access to plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
71 Safety checks by competent person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
72 Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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Division 2 Mobile plant
73 Checking mobile plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
74 Protective structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
75 Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
76 Using mobile plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
77 Warning system if mobile plant operator’s visibility is restricted. . 76
Division 3 Miscellaneous
78 Isolating and tagging procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
79 Equipment used for maintaining plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
80 Fluid above and below atmospheric pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
81 Action to be taken if certified equipment does not meet certification
requirements or is likely to create an unacceptable level of risk. . 78
Part 11 Training
82 Training scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
83 New coal mine worker not to carry out task until induction training
completed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
84 Refresher training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
85 Coal mine worker not to carry out task unless competent . . . . . . 81
Part 12 Work and work environment
86 Air conditioning units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
87 Bathrooms, toilets and dining facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
88 Cutting, drilling or excavating near a concealed service . . . . . . . 82
88A Asbestos material installed in buildings and plant . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
88B Asbestos, other than asbestos material installed in buildings and plant
84
89 Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
90 Ladders, steps and elevated walkways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
91 Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
92 Working at heights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
93 Working near a body of water or other liquid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
94 Checking and examining work areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
95 Maintaining hygienic work environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
96 Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Part 13 Miscellaneous
97 Monitoring and recording deformation of natural and artificial structures
88
98 Reporting and rectifying defects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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99 Restricting access to parts of mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
100 Requirements for drilling and abandoning boreholes. . . . . . . . . . 89
100AA Chief inspector may give exemption from s 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
100AB Site senior executive may apply for exemption from s 100. . . . . . 90
100AC Chief inspector to decide application for exemption from s 100 . . 91
100AD Requirements for site senior executive in relation to effect of coal mining
operations on petroleum activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
100A Prohibited substances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 3 Surface mines
Part 1 Preliminary
101 Application of ch 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
102 Ways of achieving an acceptable level of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Part 2 Open-cut examiner
103 Application of pt 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
104 Presence of, and access to, open-cut examiner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
105 Open-cut examiner’s responsibilities and duties—general. . . . . . 95
106 Inspecting surface excavations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
107 Reducing unacceptable level of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
108 Role in developing and reviewing safety and health management
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
109 Giving technical directions to open-cut examiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Part 3 Electrical activities, equipment and installations
Division 1 Preliminary
110 Application of pt 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Division 2 Electrical activities
111 Appointment of person to control and manage electrical engineering
activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
112 Live testing electrical equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Division 3 Electrical equipment and installations
113 Electrical protection for electrical distribution system. . . . . . . . . . 98
114 Electrical protection for mobile or transportable equipment . . . . . 99
Part 4 Explosives
115 Using explosives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
116 Safety and health management system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Part 5 Hazardous areas
117 Spoil dumps and excavated faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
118 Restricting access to hazardous areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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Part 6 Highwall mining
Division 1 General
119 Entry to highwall mining underground excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Division 2 Abnormal circumstances declaration
120 Abnormal circumstances declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
121 Notifying particular persons of abnormal circumstances declaration 103
122 Revoking abnormal circumstances declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
123 Particulars of abnormal circumstances declaration must be included in
mine record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
124 Other provisions applying while declaration is in force. . . . . . . . . 104
Division 3 Safety and health management system
125 Safety and health management system for highwall mining. . . . . 105
Part 7 Mine plans
126 Plan of surface land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
127 Plans of surface services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Part 8 Mine roads
128 Specification for design and construction of mine roads . . . . . . . 108
129 Standard operating procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Part 9 Plant
Division 1 Operator-attended dredges
130 Safety features for operator-attended dredges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
131 Stability checks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
132 Using and relocating operator-attended dredges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Division 2 Miscellaneous
133 Discharging loads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
134 Using explosive-powered tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
135 Using plant near electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Part 10 Stockpile and coal waste dump operations
136 Engine shutdown and fire suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
137 Fire detection and suppression in tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
138 Standard operating procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
139 Safety berms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Part 11 Miscellaneous
140 Prohibited articles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
141 Safety inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
142 Flammable or toxic gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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143 Heat stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
144 Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
145 Spray painting and spraying other substances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
146 Trenches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Chapter 4 Underground mines
Part 1 Preliminary
147 Application of ch 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
148 Ways of achieving an acceptable level of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Part 2 General
149 Principal hazard management plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
150 Restriction on entering below ground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
151 Dealing with flammable substances underground . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
152 Limit to external surface temperature of equipment used underground
118
153 Giving technical directions to a person appointed under s 60(8) or (9) of
the Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Part 3 Emergencies
Division 1 Fire prevention and control
154 Fire prevention and control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
155 Fire officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Division 2 Emergency mine sealing and entry airlocks
156 Emergency mine sealing and entry airlocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
157 Testing airlocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
157A Testing inertisation facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Part 4 Rescue and communication
Division 1 Self-rescuers and other breathing apparatus
158 Self-rescuers and other breathing apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
159 Restriction on entering below ground at underground mine without
self-rescuer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
160 Responsibility of persons issued with self-rescuers . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Division 2 Cap lamps
161 Types of cap lamps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
162 Facilities and equipment for cap lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
163 Maintaining and testing cap lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
164 Identifying and tracking cap lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
165 Restriction on entering below ground at an underground mine without a
cap lamp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
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