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Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999
sec.106Site senior executive to tell site safety and health representatives about certain things
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### sec.106 Site senior executive to tell site safety and health representatives about certain things
A site senior executive for a coal mine must tell a site safety and health representative at the mine about the following things—
an injury or illness to a person from coal mining operations that causes an absence from work of the person;
a high potential incident happening at the coal mine;
any proposed changes to the coal mine, or plant or substances used at the coal mine, that affect, or may affect, the safety and health of persons at the mine;
the presence of an inspector or inspection officer at the coal mine if the representative is at the mine;
a directive given by an inspector, inspection officer or industry safety and health representative about a matter.
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
For subsection (1) , the site senior executive must tell each representative as soon as practicable after the thing comes to the site senior executive’s knowledge.
(sec.106-ssec.1) A site senior executive for a coal mine must tell a site safety and health representative at the mine about the following things— an injury or illness to a person from coal mining operations that causes an absence from work of the person; a high potential incident happening at the coal mine; any proposed changes to the coal mine, or plant or substances used at the coal mine, that affect, or may affect, the safety and health of persons at the mine; the presence of an inspector or inspection officer at the coal mine if the representative is at the mine; a directive given by an inspector, inspection officer or industry safety and health representative about a matter. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
(sec.106-ssec.2) For subsection (1) , the site senior executive must tell each representative as soon as practicable after the thing comes to the site senior executive’s knowledge.
- (a) an injury or illness to a person from coal mining operations that causes an absence from work of the person;
- (b) a high potential incident happening at the coal mine;
- (c) any proposed changes to the coal mine, or plant or substances used at the coal mine, that affect, or may affect, the safety and health of persons at the mine;
- (d) the presence of an inspector or inspection officer at the coal mine if the representative is at the mine;
- (e) a directive given by an inspector, inspection officer or industry safety and health representative about a matter.