sec.8Risk reduction

sec.8 Risk reduction

A person who has an obligation under the Act to manage risk at a mine must, as far as reasonably practicable, apply hazard controls in the following order— elimination of the hazard; substitution with a lesser hazard; separation of persons from the hazard; engineering controls; using fans and ducting to remove dust using guards on conveyors administrative controls; a restriction on the time a worker is exposed to a hazard a procedure or standard work instruction personal protective equipment. The site senior executive for a mine must ensure hazard controls used to reduce risk in the mine’s work and local environments are appropriate having regard to the following— the interaction of hazards present in the environments; the effectiveness and reliability of the controls; other reasonably available relevant information and data from, and practices in, other industries and mining operations. s 8 amd 2019 SL No. 140 s 21 sch 1 (sec.8-ssec.1) A person who has an obligation under the Act to manage risk at a mine must, as far as reasonably practicable, apply hazard controls in the following order— elimination of the hazard; substitution with a lesser hazard; separation of persons from the hazard; engineering controls; using fans and ducting to remove dust using guards on conveyors administrative controls; a restriction on the time a worker is exposed to a hazard a procedure or standard work instruction personal protective equipment. (sec.8-ssec.2) The site senior executive for a mine must ensure hazard controls used to reduce risk in the mine’s work and local environments are appropriate having regard to the following— the interaction of hazards present in the environments; the effectiveness and reliability of the controls; other reasonably available relevant information and data from, and practices in, other industries and mining operations.

• (a) elimination of the hazard;
• (b) substitution with a lesser hazard;
• (c) separation of persons from the hazard;
• (d) engineering controls; Examples— 1 using fans and ducting to remove dust 2 using guards on conveyors
• 1 using fans and ducting to remove dust
• 2 using guards on conveyors
• (e) administrative controls; Examples— 1 a restriction on the time a worker is exposed to a hazard 2 a procedure or standard work instruction
• 1 a restriction on the time a worker is exposed to a hazard
• 2 a procedure or standard work instruction
• (f) personal protective equipment.
• 1 using fans and ducting to remove dust
• 2 using guards on conveyors
• 1 a restriction on the time a worker is exposed to a hazard
• 2 a procedure or standard work instruction