Legislation and Mine Safety Flashcards
General Duty
Defined: ‘ maintain safe and healthy workplace at mines to protect people at work from hazards’
- Duty applies to everyone working within all management levels , to provide a safe working environment to all and as far practical as possible to lessen the exposure of hazards to their employee
- makes sure that the employees ensure their own health and safety at all time within a mine site and those around them
- Risks and hazards have to be identified that could place the employee and others around them in harm
List the diff types of legislative standards
Principle based
- responsibility is specified by legislation
Prescription based
- Requried actions are specified by legislation. All mines have to meet to the same level and expection as set out in the legislation
Performance based
- Outcomes requried are specified by legislation. It is the employers responsibiliyt to find a way to achieve outcomes stated in the legislation
Process Based
- Method and processes are specified by the legisltation
Safe Case regime
- A safety argument developed, by operators, is formalised and submitted to the regulators for review and approval
List these stakeholder groups and their main characteristics
OHS Leaders
- OHS performance is a priority
- View regulations as a baseline and strive to achieve about this to meet their own company’s OHS goals
- Having impeccable safety standards they can improve their company image
Reluctant compillers
- Do not feel a moral duty to comply
- Only achieve what the law requires
- Schedule and budget seem more important, belief that OHS doesn’t have benefit for company
Non-complient OHS laggards
- Generally achieve bare minimum requirements
- try to avoid OHS
- OHS is treted as a business cost with no benefit to the company
The Incompetent
- Often unaware of resources abailable on OHS
- Rudimentary understanding of OHS legislation and requirements
- Low compliance
- Very small operations
List 4 categories that need to be reported to the department of mines and petroleum
- Health and surveillance
- information and notices relating to an accident that occurred on site
- Data and plans from a site
- Information on the major electrical components on site
- Information on the specific design of the mines plant
