13Contents of health and safety management systems

13 Contents of health and safety management systems

(1)  For the purposes of section 20(5)(a) of the Act, it is a requirement for a health and safety management system that it include the following:

(a) documentation of the management structure, for the mine, established as required by section 31 of the Act;

(b) each major hazard management plan required under these regulations;

(c) processes and procedures for –

(i) identifying hazards; and

(ii) risk assessments; and

(iii) the elimination or, where elimination is not reasonably practicable, management, of the risks to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates; and

(iv) the reliable implementation of the management of the risks to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates; and

(v) ongoing monitoring and review of the risks to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates;

(d) an emergency plan in relation to the mine, including the emergency response plan referred to in regulation 15 ;

(e) provision for the review and improvement, as required under regulation 14 , of the health and safety management system;

(f) a fitness-for-work program required under regulation 16 ;

(g) a health monitoring program required under regulation 17 .

(2)  In complying with the requirements relating to the health and safety management system for a mine, the mine operator must consider the relevance of any guidance material applicable to the mine.

Penalty:  In the case of –

(a) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $13 000; and

(b) an individual, a fine not exceeding $6 500.