Are you struggling to find the latest links and information on mining safety in Queensland? We have assembled a range of links to the latest Queensland coal mining safety and health act, Queensland coal mining safety and health regulation 2001, Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act, other relevant regulations, recognised standards, guidelines and guidance notes for Queensland mine safety.
The links to the Queensland mines department and legislation provide comprehensive coverage of information for Queensland mine safety.
Queensland Mining Acts and Regulations
- Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act 1999 and the Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017
- Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 and the Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017.
- Explosives Act 1999
- Radiation Safety Act 1999
Recognised Standards for Queensland Coal Mines
Section 72(1) of the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 specifies that the Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy may make recognised standards. Standards state ways of achieving an acceptable level of risk for people working in coal mines. Operators can manage the risk in a different way, but must be able to show that the method used is at least equivalent to the method in the recognised standard.
- RS1: Underground electrical equipment and electrical installations (PDF, 192.9KB)
- RS2: Control of risk management practices (PDF, 500.4KB)
- RS3: Explosion protected diesel engines (PDF, 146.1KB)
- RS4: Underground non-flameproof diesel vehicles (PDF, 460.7KB)
- RS5: Quality of incombustible dust, sampling and analysis of roadway dust in underground coal mines (PDF, 530.6KB)
- RS6: Inspections for underground coal mines (PDF, 513.3KB)
- RS7: Criteria for the assessment of drugs in coal mines (PDF, 519.4KB)
- RS8: Conduct of mine emergency exercises (PDF, 644.4KB)
- RS9: Monitoring of sealed areas (PDF, 502.8KB)
- RS10: Mine surveying and drafting (PDF, 595.8KB)
- RS11: Training in coal mines (PDF, 603.4KB)
- RS12: Place change mining operations in underground coal mines (PDF, 748.1KB)
- RS13: Tyre, wheel and rim management (PDF, 1.7MB)
- RS14: Monitoring respirable dust in coal mines (PDF, 615.6KB)
- RS15: Underground respirable dust control (PDF, 2.3MB)
- RS16: Use and control of polymeric chemicals at underground coal mines (PDF, 334.9KB)
- RS17: Hazardous chemicals (PDF, 2.7MB)
- RS18: Management of heat in underground coal mines (PDF, 492.8KB)
- RS19: Design and construction of mine roads (PDF, 926.1KB)
- RS20: Dust control in surface mines (PDF, 2.3MB)
Queensland Mining Safety Conference
You can find more information about the Queensland Mining Safety Conference and other events here.
Queensland mine safety guidelines for Queensland Mineral Mines and Quarries
- QGL01: Guideline for management of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) in metalliferous mines, Version 1 July 2014 (PDF, 562KB)
- QGL02: Guideline for management of respirable crystalline silica in Queensland mineral mines and quarries, Version 2 May 2018 (PDF, 498KB)
- QGL03 Guideline for hazardous chemicals (PDF, 2.7MB)
Supporting documents for QGL02
Health surveillance (respiratory) assessment questionnaire (DOCX, 360KB)
Health surveillance (respiratory) assessment report (DOCX, 342KB)
Available occupational hygiene consultancies:
Sampling data submissions template and guides:
- Mineral mines and quarries (MMQ) occupational hygiene data template (XLSX, 112KB) (Chief Inspector’s approved form)
- MMQ how to guide for reporting occupational hygiene data (PDF, 691KB)
- MMQ reporting classes (PDF, 366KB)
Guidance Notes for Mineral Mines and Quarries in Queensland
- QGN: Mineral exploration safety guidance note (PDF, 1.5MB)
- QGN02: Isolation of plant (PDF, 808.4KB)
- QGN05: Mine record (PDF, 448.6KB)
- QGN06: Reporting serious accidents (PDF, 293.7KB)
- QGN08: Safety at tourist mines (PDF, 577.9KB)
- QGN09: Reviewing the effectiveness of safety and health management systems (PDF, 608.6KB)
- QGN10: Handling explosives (surface and quarry) (PDF, 1.2MB)
- QGN11: Handling explosives (underground) (PDF, 787.6KB)
- QGN13: Safe work near drawpoints in underground metalliferous mines (PDF, 526.7KB)
- QGN14: Effective safety and health supervision (PDF, 1.0MB)
- QGN15: Emergency preparedness for small mines and quarries (PDF, 723.4KB)
- QGN16: Fatigue risk management (PDF, 2.1MB)
- QGN17: Development of effective job safety analysis (PDF, 1.8MB)
- QGN18: Tipping near or over vertical edges in underground mining operations (PDF, 650.5KB)
- QGN19: Mine surveying and drafting (PDF, 630.1KB)
- QGN20: Management of oxides of nitrogen in open cut blasting (PDF, 2.5MB)
- QGN21: Management of diesel engine exhaust in metalliferous mines (PDF, 606.6KB)
- QGN22: Management of noise in mines (PDF, 1.5MB)
- QGN23: Facility descriptions for metalliferous mines and quarries (PDF, 592.7KB)
- QGN25: Site Safety and Health Representatives and Site Safety and Health Committees (PDF, 191.2KB)
- QGN26: Electric propulsion systems used in self-powered earth moving machinery (PDF, 266.3KB)
- QGN27: Collision prevention (PDF, 1001.7KB)
- QGN28: Fall prevention (PDF, 617.6KB)
- QGN29: Surface tailing storage facility management (PDF, 703.1KB)
- QGN30: Shaft construction metalliferous mines
Queensland Mine Safety Guidance Notes for Coal Mines
- QGN07: Reporting Serious Accidents and High Potential Incidents to an Inspector of Mines or an Industry Safety and Health Representative (PDF, 643.5KB)
- QGN09: Reviewing the effectiveness of safety and health management systems (PDF, 608.6KB)
- QGN10: Handling explosives (surface and quarry) (PDF, 1.2MB)
- QGN11: Handling explosives (underground) (PDF, 787.6KB)
- QGN15: Emergency preparedness for small mines and quarries (PDF, 723.4KB)
- QGN16: Fatigue risk management (PDF, 2.1MB)
- QGN20: Management of oxides of nitrogen in open cut blasting (PDF, 2.5MB)
- QGN22: Management of noise in mines (PDF, 1.5MB)
- QGN24: Guidance for coal mines to develop and implement a management structure (PDF, 292.2KB)
- QGN26: Electric propulsion systems used in self-powered earth moving machinery (PDF, 266.3KB)
Queensland mine safety directives
These directives, issued by the Mines Inspectorate under either the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 (PDF, 993KB) or the Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act 1999 (PDF, 864KB), usually apply to a group of mines (e.g. underground coal mines). Copies of relevant sections of these directives are included here for information to industry in general:
- Contractor management, Queensland coal mines (PDF, 41KB)
- Use of polyurethane foam to flat-proof tyres used in underground coal mines (PDF, 105KB)
- Requirements pertaining to the use of ATF Series 251 headlights in Queensland underground coal mines (PDF, 110KB)
- Flameproof diesel vehicles electrical circuits (PDF, 133KB)
- Possible risk associated with running explosion protected compression ignition engines in ERZ1 areas of an underground coal mine (PDF, 139KB)
- Review of drug and alcohol policy at Queensland coal mines, including exploration sites (PDF, 44KB)
- Electric shocks from Joy 10SC32-56BC shuttle cars, Queensland underground coal mines (PDF, 46KB)
- Electric shocks from Joy 10SC32-56BC shuttle cars, checks and reviews, Queensland underground coal mines (PDF, 46KB)
- Use and suitability of on-highway heavy vehicles underground, Queensland underground metalliferous mines (PDF, 47KB)
- Stored energy device, Queensland coal mines (PDF, 42KB)
- Light vehicles fit for purpose, Queensland coal mines (PDF, 42KB)
- Quick hitch man basket controls, Queensland surface coal mines (PDF, 42KB)
- Response and treatment of suspected fluid injection, Queensland coal mines (PDF, 42KB)
- Review of safety and health management system, Queensland surface coal mines (PDF, 41KB)
- Audit of change management at all Queensland coal mines, including exploration sites (PDF, 41KB)
- Review of safety and health management system with regard to severe weather events, Queensland coal mines (PDF, 41KB).
- New management awards tender at Bowen Basin coal mine
- Disaster shuts down mine until 2025
- Employers race towards fully electrified mine sites
- Mineral producers should put worker safety first says authority
- New $1B Central Qld coal operation opens
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