MPS Regs Flashcards
Part 1 Preliminary
4 Meaning of Principal Hazard
A principal hazard is any activity, process, procedure, plant, structure, substance, situation, or other
circumstance relating to the carrying out of mining operations that have a reasonable potential to
result in multiple deaths in a single incident or a series of recurring incidents in relation to any of the
following=
1. Ground or strata failure. (20)
2. Inundation or inrush of any substance. (8)
3. Roads or other vehicle operating areas. (8)
4. Fire and explosion. (8)
5. Subsidence. (6)
6. Spontaneous combustion. (4)
7. Air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants. (4)
8. Gas outbursts.
9. Mine shafts and winding systems.
10. A hazard identified by the mine operator under cl34 of the WHS Regs.
Subdivision 1 Control of Risk
14 - Management of Risk to Health and Safety
1) A PCBU at a mine site must manage risks to health and safety associated with mining operations.
2) A PCBU at a mine or site must ensure a risk assessment is conducted by a competent person.
3) The risk assessment must have regard to
(a) the nature of the hazard,
(b) the likelihood of the hazard affecting the health or safety of a person,
(c) the severity of the potential health and safety consequences.
(4) a PCBU must keep a record of the following:
(a) each risk assessment conducted under this section and the name and competency of the
person who conducted the risk assessment.
(b) the control measures implemented to eliminate or minimize any risk that was identified through any such risk assessment.
(5) a PCBU is not required to keep a record of a risk assessment if:
(a) a risk assessment is one that an individual worker is required to carry out before commencing a particular task,
(b) the person keeps a record of risk assessments that address the overall activity being undertaken such as a risk assessment carried out in relation to the development of the SMS for the
mine or for a PHMP.
Subdivision 1 Control of Risk
15 Review of Control Measures
(1) A PCBU at a mine site must review and as necessary revise control measures implemented under section 14 following circumstances—
(a) an audit of the effectiveness of the safety management system for the mine site indicates a deficiency in a control measure,
(b) a worker is moved from a hazard or assigned to different work in response to a recommendation contained in a health monitoring report provided under Part 4,
(c) an incident referred to in section 124 occurs,
(d) another incident occurs that is required to be notified to the regulator under the WHS laws.
(2) A health and safety representative for workers at a mine may request a review.
Subdivision 1 Control of Risk
16 Record of certain reviews of control measures - operator
(1) This section applies to an operator of a mine or petroleum site who has, under the WHS Regulations, clause 38, reviewed a control measure in response to—
(a) a notifiable incident, or
(b) an incident referred to in section 124.
(2) The operator of a mine or petroleum site must keep a record of the following—
(a) the causes, or likely causes, of the incident,
(b) the work health and safety matters arising from the incident,
(c) recommendations arising from consideration of the incident, including recommendations directed at preventing a repeat of the type of incident in the future,
(d) the outcome of a review or revision of the control measures or a part of the safety management system,
(e) a summary of changes to—
(i) the safety management system for the mine or site, and
(ii) the affected principal hazard management plan or principal control plan for the mine or site.
(3) The operator of a mine site must, if required by the regulator by written notice, provide the records kept under this section to the regulator, in the way and within the period specified in the notice.
Subdivision 1 Control of Risk
17 Record of certain reviews of control measures - other PCBU
(1) This section applies to PCBU at a mine site.
(2) This section does not apply to the operator of the mine site, who has, under the WHS Regulations, clause 38, reviewed a control measure in response to—
(a) a notifiable incident, or
(b) an incident referred to in section 124.
(3) A person must keep a record of the following—
(a) the causes, or likely causes, of the incident,
(b) the work health and safety matters arising from the incident,
(c) recommendations arising from consideration of the incident, including a recommendation directed at preventing a repeat of the type of incident in the future,
(d) the outcome of a review or revision of the control measures.
(4) A person must, if required by the regulator by written notice, provide the records kept under this section to the regulator, in the way and within the period specified in the notice.
Subdivision 2 SMS
18 Duty to establish and implement a Safety Management System.
1) The operator of a mine site must establish and implement a safety management system for the mine site
(2) The operator must ensure no mining operations take place prior to the safety management system has been implemented.
(3) The safety management system must form part of an overall management system that is in place at the mine site.
(4) The safety management system must be designed to be used by the operator as the primary means of ensuring, as far as reasonably practicable—
(a) the health and safety of workers at the site, and
(b) the health and safety of other persons is not put at risk from the mine site or work carried out as part of mining operations
(5) the safety management system must provide a comprehensive and integrated system for the management of all aspects of risks to health and safety in relation to the operation of the mine
Subdivision 2 SMS
19 Content of Safety Management System
Health and Safety Policy
Health Monitoring
Inspections
Inductions
Information, Training & Instruction
Incidents & Emergencies
Consultation
Communication across shifts
Contractor Management
(1) A SMS system prepared by the
contractor.
(2) how the contractor SMS will be
integrated with the site SMS.
(3) the process for assessing health
and safety policies and procedures
including competency requirements
(4) arrangements for monitoring
compliance to SMS.
Risk Management
Resources to implement SMS
Record keeping.
Supervision
Safety roles for workers
Specific controls
PHMP
PCP
Withdrawal conditions
Performance standards & audits
Management structure
(1) arrangements for filling temporary
and permanent vacancies.
(2) requirements relating to acting
positions.
(3) the competency requirements for
positions
(4) the positions that have
responsibility for the management
of work health and safety, and
name of relevant persons.
(5) for person nominated to exercise
key statutory functions.
Emergency plan
Subdivision 2 SMS
20 Performance standards and audit
The safety management system for a mine site must include the following—
(a) performance standards for measuring the effectiveness of all aspects of the safety management system.
(b) a system for auditing the effectiveness of the safety management system for the mine site against the performance standards, including the methods, frequency and results of the audit process.
Subdivision 2 SMS
21 Maintenance of Safety Management System
The operator of a mine or site must maintain the safety management system for the mine site so that the safety management system remains effective.
Subdivision 2 SMS
22 Review of Safety Management System
(1) The operator of a mine site must ensure the safety management system for the mine site is reviewed, to ensure it remains effective—
(a) within 12 months of the commencement of mining operations
(b) at least once every 3 years after the commencement.
(2) If a control measure is revised under the WHS Regulations, clause 38 or this Regulation, section 15.
Subdivision 3 Provision of Information
23 duties to provide information to operator of adjoining mine site.
- must on request, provide to the operator of any adjoining mine site any information that the operator has about conditions at the mine site or any activities or proposed activities at the
mine site that could create a risk to the health and safety of persons at the adjoining mine site. - applies to survey plans and mine site plans.
Subdivision 3 Provision of Information
24 duties on operator to provide information to contractor.
The operator of a mine site must ensure a contractor who is to carry out mining operations is given all relevant information and access to the mine site it to enable the contractor to identify risks
associated with the proposed operations.
Subdivision 3 Provision of Information
25 Duty on contractor to provide information to operator.
A contractor who is to carry out mining operations at a mine site must ensure the operator is given all relevant information to enable the operator to identify risks associated with the proposed operations.
Subdivision 3 Provision of Information
26 contractors to prepare plan or use SMS
1) A contractor must not carry out mining operations at a mine site unless the contractor has -
a) Prepared a plan (A contractor health and safety management plan).
b) provided a copy of the plan to the operator.
c) Obtained a written notice from the operator that the operator has reviewed the plan and reasonably believes the plan is consistent with the SMS for the mine site.
d) As far as reasonably practicable, implemented the plan.
2) Subsection one does not apply if the contractor has-
a) reviewed the SMS for the mine site.
b) given the operator written notice that-
i) the contractor has conducted the review.
ii) The contractor reasonably believes the SMS is consistent with the contractors’ arrangements to manage the risks to health and safety from mining operations carried
out by the contractor at the mine.
3) A contractor health and safety management plan must-
a) Set out how the contractor will manage the risks to health and safety for mining operations carried out by the contractor at the mine site in accordance with section 14 and other
requirements under the WHS laws.
b) Be designed to be used by the contractor as the primary means of
i) ensuring the health and safety of the contractors’ workers.
ii) ensuring the health and safety of other persons is not put at risk from work carried out as part of the contractors business or undertaking at them on site.
c) Be documented.
d) Be set out and expressed in a way that is readily understandable by persons who use it.
Division 2 PHMP and PCP
27 Identification of principal hazards and conduct of risk assessment.
(1) The operator of a mine site must identify all principal hazards associated with mining operations
(2) The operator must conduct, in relation to each principal hazard identified, a risk assessment that involves a comprehensive and systematic investigation and analysis of all aspects of risk to health and safety associated with the principal hazard.
3) the operator, in conducting a risk assessment under subclause 2 must-
a) Use investigation and analysis methods that are appropriate to the principal hazard identified.
b) Consider the principal hazard individually and cumulatively with other hazards at the mine
site.
Division 2 PHMP and PCP
28 Preparation of PHMP
1) the operator of a mine site must prepare a PHMP for each principal hazard associated with
mining operations at the mine site in accordance with this clause and schedule 1.
2) A PHMP MUST -
a) provide for the management of all aspects of risk control in relation to the principal hazard,
b) be set out and expressed in a way that is readily understandable by persons who use it.
3) A PHMP MUST-
a) describe the nature of the principal hazard to which the plan relates,
b) describe how the principal hazard relates to other hazards associated with mining operations at the mine site,
c) describe the analysis methods used in identifying the principal hazard to which the plan relates.
d) include a record of the most recent risk assessment conducted in relation to the principal hazard,
e) describe the investigation and analysis methods used in determining the control measures to be implemented,
f) describe all control measures to be implemented to manage risks to health and safety associated with the principal hazard,
g) describe the arrangements in place for providing the information, training and instruction required by cl39 of the WHS Regs in relation to the principal hazard,
h) refer to any design principles, engineering standards and technical standards relied on for control measures for the principal hazard,
i) set out the reasons for adopting or rejecting each control measure considered.
4) the operator of a mine site must consider the following when preparing a PHMP for a principal hazard at the mine site-
a) the matters set out in schedule 1 in respect to the principal hazard,
b) any other matter relevant to managing risks associated with the principal hazard at the mine site.
5) the operator of a mine site at which there is a principal hazard must ensure that no mining operations are carried out at the mine site that may give rise to the hazard before the PHMP for
the hazard has been prepared in accordance with this clause.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
1 Ground or Strata Failure (20)
Geology & Geotech
1. Local geological structure.
2. Geotechnical Characteristics of the rock and soil.
3. Timing of installation of ground and strata support.
4. The collection, analysis, and interpretation of relevant geotechnical data.
5. Stability of any slopes.
6. Design, installation and quality of rock support and reinforcements.
7. The size and geometry of the mine’s openings.
8. Ground and strata control monitoring.
9. The risk of rock, coal, or related pressure bursts.
Water
1. Local hydrogeological environment.
2. Means by which water may enter the mine, and procedures for removing the water.
Blasting
1. any natural or induced seismic activity.
2. Equipment and procedures used to record, interpret and analysis data from monitoring of seismic activity.
3. proposed blasting activities.
Mine Design & Operations
1. Location and loading from existing or proposed mine dumps, stockpiles, infrastructure, etc.
2. Design, layout, operation, construction and maintenance of any dump, stockpile, or
emplacement areas at the mine.
3. Previously excavated or abandoned workings.
4. proposed and existing mine operations.
5. Filling requirements for mined areas.
6. Equipment and procedures for scaling.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
2 Inundation or inrush of any substance (8)
- Potential sources of inundation.
- Location, design and construction of dams and emplacement areas and any other bodies of water or material that could enter the mine.
- Potential sources of inrush.
- Location of other workings and strength of ground between those workings.
- Potential for accumulation of water, gas or other substances or materials.
- Magnitude of all potential sources and maximum flow rates.
- Worst possible health and safety consequences of each potential source.
- Survey plans of the mine.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
3B Spontaneous combustion (4)
- The potential for spontaneous combustion to occur in the material being mined (including history of the mine, adjacent or previous mining operations in the same seam, scientific
testing). - Design of the mine.
- The impact of gas generated by spontaneous combustion.
- Mine ventilation practices.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
3C Subsidence (6)
- Characteristics of all relevant surface and subsurface features.
- Characteristics of all relevant geological, hydrogeological, hydrological, geotechnical,
topographic, and climatic conditions. - Previously excavated or abandoned workings that may interact with any proposed or existing mine workings.
- Existence, distribution, geometry, and stability of significant voids that may interact with any proposed or existing mine workings.
- The predicted and actual nature, magnitude, distribution, timing, and duration of subsidence.
- The rate method, layout, schedule, and sequence of mining operations.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
4 Roads or other operating areas (8)
- The characteristics of all mobile plant.
- The effect on road conditions of expected environmental conditions during operating periods,
- The impact of road design and characteristics.
- The impact of mine design.
- The volume and speed of traffic and the potential for interactions.
- Interactions between mobile plant and pedestrians.
- Interactions between mobile plant and public traffic.
- Interactions between mobile plant and fixed structures.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
5 Air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants (4)
- The types of dust and other chemical and biological contaminants in the air.
- The levels of oxygen, dust, and other contaminants in the air.
- The temperature and humidity of the air.
- The length of exposure.
Schedule 1: PHMP - additional matters to be considered.
6 fire or explosion (8)
- The potential sources of flammable, combustible and explosive substances and materials.
- The potential sources of ignition, fire, or explosion.
- The potential for propagation of fire or explosion to other parts of the mine.
- The potential sources of flammable material with a flash point of less than 61 degrees Celsius.
- The management and control of the transport and storage of combustible liquids.
- Arrangments for the prevention of fires (detection and suppression systems)
- The equipment for fighting fire at the mine site.
- For underground mine - arrangements for the management and control of volatile or hazardous material.
(A PHMP that addresses fire or explosion must include details of procedures to be used for carrying
out hot work at the mine site)
Division 2 PHMP and PCP
29 Review of PHMP
1) the operator of a mine site must ensure that a PHMP is reviewed and as necessary revised if a control measure specified in the plan is revised under cl38 of the WHS Regs.
2) if a PHMP is revised, the operator must record the revisions, including any revision of the risk assessment, in writing the plan.
Division 2 PHMP and PCP
30 Principal Control Plans
(1) The operator of a mine site must comply with the requirements for principal control plans specified in this section and Schedule 2.
2) A principal control plan must—
(a) be documented, and
(b) be set out and expressed in a way that is readily understandable by persons who use it.
(3) Health Control Plan for the mine site that sets out the means by which the operator will manage the risks to health associated with mining operations at the mine or petroleum site in accordance with section 14.
(4) Mechanical Engineering Control Plan he operator of a mine site at which there is a risk to health and safety associated with the mechanical aspects of plant and structures at the mine or petroleum site must—
(a) prepare and implement a mechanical engineering control plan for the mine
(b) ensure the plan is developed and periodically reviewed by a person who is, or who is under the supervision of—
(i) the individual nominated to exercise the statutory function of mechanical engineering manager or mechanical engineer at the mine or
(ii) if no person is required to hold either of the positions at the mine or petroleum site—a competent person.
(5) Electrical Engineering Control Plan the operator of a mine site at which there is a risk to health and safety associated with electricity at the mine or petroleum site must—
(a) prepare and implement an electrical engineering control plan for site that sets out the means by which the operator will manage the risks in accordance with section 14, and
(b) ensure the plan is developed and periodically reviewed by a person who is, or who is under the supervision of—
(i) the individual nominated to exercise the statutory functions of electrical engineering manager or electrical engineer at the mine site or
(ii) if no person is required to hold either of the positions at the mine or petroleum site—a competent person.
(6) Explosives Control Plan the operator of a mine site at which there is a risk to health and safety associated with explosives or explosive precursors at the mine site must prepare an explosives control plan for the mine or petroleum site that sets out the means by which the operator will manage the risks in accordance with section 14.
Subdivision 1 Operation Controls
31 communications between outgoing and incoming shifts 4
a) the supervisor of each outgoing shift provides a written report to the supervisor of the incoming shift, in relation to the state of workings at the mine site and plant and any other
matter that relates to work health and safety,
b) the supervisor of the outgoing shift acknowledges in writing to the supervisor of the incoming shift the accuracy of the report and signs the acknowledgment.
c) the supervisor of the incoming shift communicates the content of the report to the workers on the incoming shift,
d) the supervisor of the incoming shift acknowledges in writing to the supervisor of the outgoing shift that the content of the report has been communicated to the workers on the
incoming shift and the supervisor of the incoming shift signs the acknowledgment.
Subdivision 1 Operation Controls
32 Movement of mobile plan 7
In managing risks to health and safety associated with the movement of mobile plant at the mine site, the operator must have regard to all relevant matters including the following
1) the design, layout, construction, and maintenance of all roads and other areas at the mine site used by mobile plant (including the drainage systems for any such road or area).
2) any risks associated with the terrain or nature of any land adjacent to any such road or area.
3) interactions between mobile plant, especially between large and small mobile plant.
4) interactions between mobile plant and fixed structures.
5) interactions between mobile plant and pedestrians.
6) the operation of remotely controlled mobile plant.
7) the maintenance, testing and inspection of brakes, steering, lights, and other safety features of the mobile plant.
39 inspections
The mine operator must ensure that arrangements are in place for the regular inspection of the working environment of the mine for the purposes of the WHS laws. The following considered
- Procedures for conducting inspections.
- When inspections are to be carried out.
- The person competent to carry out inspections.
- The number of competent persons required to conduct each inspection.
88 Inspection Plan
The mine operator of a coal mine must ensure that as part of the inspection plan for the mine.
A. the mine is divided into inspection areas, each being an area of a size no larger than that which can be reasonably inspected by a competent person within the time allocated to that person, and
B. a production area is identified in respect of each area of the mine at which coal or mineral is extracted that includes-areas where drilling is carried out, or where haul roads, dumps or stockpiles are being used, and
C. any boundary of a production area that crosses a roadway on which persons normally travel is clearly marked as such.
3- The mine operator of a coal mine must ensure that the inspection plan for the mine makes provision for the following.
A. how any concerns raised around the size of production areas, and the ability of those responsible to adequately perform required inspections, are to be resolved,
B. how a concern arising from an inspection (a safety concern) is to be brought to the attention of-
* persons whose health or safety may be affected, and
* the relevant manager (being the person within the management structure of the
mine whose area of responsibility and accountability includes the subject matter of the safety concern),
C. how a senior manager (being a person more senior in the management structure of the mine than the relevant manager) is to be notified of the remedial action taken (or not taken) by the relevant manager following a safety concern being raised,
D. how concerns are to be brought to the attention of the senior manager about the remedial action taken (or not taken) by the relevant manager following a safety concern being raised,
E. the recording of the results of inspections carried out under the plan,
F. the regular and timely review by relevant managers of reports of inspections and
other information provided by persons carrying out inspections.
4- An inspection of each production area at a coal mine (other than an underground coal mine) at which mining operations are taking place must be carried out under the inspection plan at least once every shift.
6-Inspections may be required more frequently than specified in subclause (4) or (5) dependent on the risks present at the particular mine.
7-The inspection of all safely accessible parts of each inspection area at a coal mine is to be carried
out by
A. a mining supervisor at the mine, or
B. in any other case-a competent person.
9- The mine operator of a coal mine must ensure that no person enters a production area after the
regular routine of inspections for that area have been interrupted until the production area has been inspected in accordance with this clause.
11- The mine operator of a coal mine must ensure that workers at the mine are permitted to examine any place where they will work for risks prior to commencing work and during the course of their work
