72Blasting plans

72 Blasting plans

(1)  Blasting may only be carried out if there is a valid blasting plan for it.

Note

For the validity of blasting plans – see regulation 74 .

(2)  If blasting is carried out without a valid blasting plan, the person who commissioned the blasting and the person who carried it out are each guilty of an offence.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(3)  A blasting plan may be –

(a) a limited blasting plan; or

(b) a general blasting plan.

(4)  A limited blasting plan is appropriate for –

(a) one discrete blast; or

(b) a set of blasts, in one location, not extending beyond one day; or

(c) trainee blasting.

(5)  A general blasting plan is appropriate for the kind of multiple or repetitive blasting (possibly occurring over an extended period) that is typically associated with the operation of a mine, a large commercial quarry or road construction works and where a requirement to prepare blasting plans for each discrete blast would be inefficient and onerous in regulatory and commercial terms.

(6)  However, nothing in this regulation is to be taken as preventing a person from preparing, in respect of blasting that is to be carried out over a period of more than one day, a series of limited blasting plans for each of those days.