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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
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### sec.91 Noise
A coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide ways of ensuring—
each coal mine worker’s exposure to noise is kept to an acceptable level; and
the worker is not exposed to noise levels exceeding the levels stated in the national standard for occupational noise.
The system must provide for the following—
supplying personal protective equipment for persons in the work environment if there is no practical way of reducing the persons’ noise dose to comply with subsection (1) ;
monitoring and recording noise levels in the work environment;
keeping the records in a location that is easily accessible by each coal mine worker at the mine;
identifying, by an appropriate warning sign, each part of the mine where there are excessive noise levels.
In this section—
national standard for occupational noise means the national standard for occupational noise stated in the NOHSC document entitled ‘National Standard for Occupational Noise [NOHSC:1007]’.
(sec.91-ssec.1) A coal mine’s safety and health management system must provide ways of ensuring— each coal mine worker’s exposure to noise is kept to an acceptable level; and the worker is not exposed to noise levels exceeding the levels stated in the national standard for occupational noise.
(sec.91-ssec.2) The system must provide for the following— supplying personal protective equipment for persons in the work environment if there is no practical way of reducing the persons’ noise dose to comply with subsection (1) ; monitoring and recording noise levels in the work environment; keeping the records in a location that is easily accessible by each coal mine worker at the mine; identifying, by an appropriate warning sign, each part of the mine where there are excessive noise levels.
(sec.91-ssec.3) In this section— national standard for occupational noise means the national standard for occupational noise stated in the NOHSC document entitled ‘National Standard for Occupational Noise [NOHSC:1007]’.
- (a) each coal mine worker’s exposure to noise is kept to an acceptable level; and
- (b) the worker is not exposed to noise levels exceeding the levels stated in the national standard for occupational noise.
- (a) supplying personal protective equipment for persons in the work environment if there is no practical way of reducing the persons’ noise dose to comply with subsection (1) ;
- (b) monitoring and recording noise levels in the work environment;
- (c) keeping the records in a location that is easily accessible by each coal mine worker at the mine;
- (d) identifying, by an appropriate warning sign, each part of the mine where there are excessive noise levels.