5Records of risk assessment to be made

5 Records of risk assessment to be made

(1)  A mine operator, as soon as practicable after a risk assessment is undertaken in respect of the mine as required under regulation 4 , must make a written record of –

(a) the risk assessment; and

(b) the measures taken to manage the risk to health and safety to which the risk assessment relates.

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.

(2)  A mine operator, as soon as practicable after a risk assessment is reviewed as required under regulation 4 , must make a written record of the review and, if the risk assessment is revised, the revision, including, if the measures taken to manage the risk to health and safety to which the assessment relates are revised, a record of those measures as so revised.

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.

(3)  A mine operator, at the request of a person who is or may be exposed to a risk to which a record that is made as required under subregulation (1) or (2) relates, must make the record available to the person.

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.

(4)  A mine operator must ensure that the written record required to be made under subregulation (1) or (2) in respect of a risk assessment is kept for not less than 7 years after the record is made.

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.