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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
sec.368Standard operating procedure
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### sec.368 Standard operating procedure
An underground mine’s safety and health management system must provide for a procedure (the search procedure ), complying with this section, for searching a person to ensure the person has not taken, or does not take, contraband underground at the mine.
The search procedure must provide for the following—
routine and random searches;
the frequency, time and place for searches;
the method of conducting searches, including a requirement that the search be conducted by a person of the same sex as the person being searched;
ensuring that in time, each of the mine’s coal mine workers carrying out tasks underground will be searched.
In establishing the search procedure, the site senior executive for the mine must comply with section 10 , other than section 10 (1) (a) , as if—
a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the search procedure; and
a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers.
(sec.368-ssec.1) An underground mine’s safety and health management system must provide for a procedure (the search procedure ), complying with this section, for searching a person to ensure the person has not taken, or does not take, contraband underground at the mine.
(sec.368-ssec.2) The search procedure must provide for the following— routine and random searches; the frequency, time and place for searches; the method of conducting searches, including a requirement that the search be conducted by a person of the same sex as the person being searched; ensuring that in time, each of the mine’s coal mine workers carrying out tasks underground will be searched.
(sec.368-ssec.3) In establishing the search procedure, the site senior executive for the mine must comply with section 10 , other than section 10 (1) (a) , as if— a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the search procedure; and a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers.
- (a) routine and random searches;
- (b) the frequency, time and place for searches;
- (c) the method of conducting searches, including a requirement that the search be conducted by a person of the same sex as the person being searched;
- (d) ensuring that in time, each of the mine’s coal mine workers carrying out tasks underground will be searched.
- (a) a reference in the section to a standard operating procedure were a reference to the search procedure; and
- (b) a reference in the section to the coal mine workers with whom the site senior executive consulted were a reference to representatives of the mine’s coal mine workers.