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Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999
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### sec.199A Site senior executive must tell contractor particular matters
This section applies if—
a contractor provides or arranges for a coal mine worker to perform work, or provide a service, at a coal mine; and
the site senior executive for the coal mine becomes aware of any of the following matters—
an injury or illness to the coal mine worker from coal mining operations that causes the worker to be absent from work;
a high potential incident happening at the coal mine that causes or has the potential to cause a significant adverse effect on the safety or health of the coal mine worker;
any proposed change to the coal mine, or plant or substance used at the coal mine, that affects, or may affect, the safety and health of the coal mine worker.
The site senior executive for the coal mine must tell the contractor about the matter as soon as practicable after the matter comes to the site senior executive’s knowledge.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
s 199A ins 2024 No. 34 s 76
(sec.199A-ssec.1) This section applies if— a contractor provides or arranges for a coal mine worker to perform work, or provide a service, at a coal mine; and the site senior executive for the coal mine becomes aware of any of the following matters— an injury or illness to the coal mine worker from coal mining operations that causes the worker to be absent from work; a high potential incident happening at the coal mine that causes or has the potential to cause a significant adverse effect on the safety or health of the coal mine worker; any proposed change to the coal mine, or plant or substance used at the coal mine, that affects, or may affect, the safety and health of the coal mine worker.
(sec.199A-ssec.2) The site senior executive for the coal mine must tell the contractor about the matter as soon as practicable after the matter comes to the site senior executive’s knowledge. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
- (a) a contractor provides or arranges for a coal mine worker to perform work, or provide a service, at a coal mine; and
- (b) the site senior executive for the coal mine becomes aware of any of the following matters— (i) an injury or illness to the coal mine worker from coal mining operations that causes the worker to be absent from work; (ii) a high potential incident happening at the coal mine that causes or has the potential to cause a significant adverse effect on the safety or health of the coal mine worker; (iii) any proposed change to the coal mine, or plant or substance used at the coal mine, that affects, or may affect, the safety and health of the coal mine worker.
- (i) an injury or illness to the coal mine worker from coal mining operations that causes the worker to be absent from work;
- (ii) a high potential incident happening at the coal mine that causes or has the potential to cause a significant adverse effect on the safety or health of the coal mine worker;
- (iii) any proposed change to the coal mine, or plant or substance used at the coal mine, that affects, or may affect, the safety and health of the coal mine worker.
- (i) an injury or illness to the coal mine worker from coal mining operations that causes the worker to be absent from work;
- (ii) a high potential incident happening at the coal mine that causes or has the potential to cause a significant adverse effect on the safety or health of the coal mine worker;
- (iii) any proposed change to the coal mine, or plant or substance used at the coal mine, that affects, or may affect, the safety and health of the coal mine worker.