This Regulation, consisting of 385 sections divided into six Chapters and completed by nine Schedules, implements the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999. It establishes that a coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the following basic elements: a) risk identification and assessment; b) hazard analysis; c) hazard management and control; d) reporting and recording relevant safety and health information and data. Chapter 2 establishes the requirements for all coal mines; Chapter 3 Surface mines; Chapter 4 Underground mines. Provisions include ways of achieving an acceptable level of risk and safety and health management system. Schedules deal with the following issues: Potential hazard guide—coal seam gas or petroleum; Site safety and health representative election process; Types of high potential incidents for section 198(2)(b) of the Act; Diseases for section 198(6) of the Act; Types of serious accidents and high potential incidents for sections 200(1) and 201(1) of the Act; Prohibited substances; Provisions applying while abnormal circumstances declaration is in force; Ventilation control devices and design criteria; Matters to be covered in inspections; General body concentrations for atmospheric contaminants; Prescribed tasks for section 76(3)(a) of the Act; Fees and Dictionary. The potential hazard guide in schedule 1A is a list of potential hazards that may be created by coal mining operations in relation to exploring for or producing coal seam gas or petroleum. The guide is intended to help the site senior executive for a coal mine identify the matters mentioned in subsection (3) for preparing the coal mine’s safety and health management system, including a joint interaction management plan mentioned in division 4. For subsection (2), the matters are the activities, and the impact of the activities, that— a) are carried out or proposed to be carried out as part of coal mining operations at the coal mine; and b) that may affect safe production of coal seam gas or petroleum under an adjacent petroleum lease or overlapping petroleum lease.
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