418Safety management system

418 Safety management system

(1) The operator of a prescribed mine must establish and implement a safety management system for the mine, in accordance with this regulation, which provides a comprehensive and integrated management system for all risk control measures implemented under regulation 405.

(2) The operator of a prescribed mine must use the safety management system as the primary means of ensuring the safe operation of the mine.

(3) The operator of a prescribed mine must ensure that the safety management system—

(a) is documented; and

(b) is set out and expressed in a way that is readily comprehensible to persons who use it; and

(c) contains a description of—

(i) the safety assessment; and

(ii) the operator's safety policy; and

(d) sets out the systems, procedures and other risk control measures by means of which risks associated with mining hazards are to be controlled; and

(e) sets out the performance standards for measuring the effectiveness of the safety management system, that—

(i) relate to all aspects of the safety management system; and

(ii) are sufficiently detailed to enable the operator to ensure that the effectiveness of all aspects of the safety management system is apparent; and

(iii) include steps that are to be taken to continually improve the safety management system; and

(f) sets out the way in which performance standards are to be met; and

(g) sets out the process, including method and frequency, for the audit of the effectiveness of the safety management system against the performance standards.