approved way and form means the way and form approved by the regulator.
auxiliary fan means a fan, other than a cooling fan for equipment or a scrubber fan, used underground to direct ventilation in a part of an underground mine.
booster fan means a fan installed so the total ventilation flow in the place where the fan is installed passes through the fan.
breathing zone, for Schedule 6—see Schedule 6, section 1.
cache means a place at a mine at which self-contained self-rescuers are stored for use in an emergency.
change-over station means a place at a mine intended to be used for the change-over of self-contained self-rescuers in an emergency.
contractor means a contractor who conducts a business or undertaking at a mine or petroleum site other than the following—
(a) a person who is the operator of the mine or petroleum site,
(b) a person who conducts one or more of the following businesses or undertakings at the mine or petroleum site—
(i) a delivery business or undertaking,
(ii) an office equipment service business or undertaking,
(iii) an office cleaning business or undertaking,
(iv) a catering business or undertaking,
(c) a person, or class of persons, specified in an order of the regulator published in the Gazette.
Council, for Part 11 and Schedule 12—see section 165.
cut-through means a tunnel driven to connect adjacent headings.
decommission a well means to permanently seal off the well so it cannot be entered.
direct supervision of a person means oversight by the supervisor of the person’s work for the purposes of—
(a) directing, demonstrating, monitoring and checking the person’s work in a way that is appropriate to the person’s level of competency, and
(b) ensuring a capacity to respond in an emergency situation.
electrical installation has the same meaning as in the WHS Regulations, Part 4.7.
electrical plant means plant, all or part of which is powered by electricity.
emergency plan means the emergency plan prepared under section 91.
emplacement area means a place, including a tailings storage facility referred to in Schedule 3, Part 7, at which there is reject, including a wall or other structure that keeps the reject, but does not include—
(a) reject situated underground, or
(b) reject that has been disposed of with overburden in a way that does not alter the stability of an overburden dump.
explosion-protected, in relation to plant, means the plant is not capable of initiating an explosion of gas or dust.
face machine includes a continuous miner, a mobile roof bolter, a road header and a tunnel boring machine.
face zone means an area within 200m outbye of—
(a) a longwall face, or
(b) for a panel where mining is being carried out by a continuous miner—the most inbye completed line of cut-throughs.
fire-protected, in relation to an engine, means the engine will not ignite flammable substances, other than gases.
ground includes the roof, floor and walls of excavations at a mine.
hazardous atmosphere has the same meaning as in the WHS Regulations, clause 51.
hazardous zone, at an underground coal mine, means each of the following—
(a) any part at the mine in which the concentration of methane in the general body of the air is 1.25% by volume or greater,
(b) a return airway,
(c) any part of an intake airway that is on the return side of points that are within 100m outbye of—
(i) the most inbye completed line of cut-throughs, or
(ii) any longwall or shortwall face, but only to the extent the intake airway is on the intake side of that face, but not if the longwall face is an installation face at which the development of the face, and mining for development coal, have been completed and at which longwall mining has yet to commence.
heading means a tunnel driven in the main direction of the mining operation.
highwall mining means the underground extraction of coal carried out—
(a) by remotely controlled plant that drives the extraction from an open pit or hole, and
(b) without requiring a person to be present at a part of the extraction.
hot work means welding, soldering, heating, cutting, grinding or vulcanising where a surface temperature of more than 150°C is likely to be generated.
inbye, at a mine, means in a direction away from the closest entrance of the mine.
incident, for Schedule 9—see Schedule 9, section 1.
inhalable dust has the same meaning as in the Guidance on the Interpretation of Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants published by Safe Work Australia in April 2012, as in force or remade from time to time.
inrush hazard means a hazard involving the potential inrush of a substance.
interstate practising certificate, for Part 9—see section 131.
intrinsically safe circuit means a circuit that is intrinsically safe category ‘i’, as defined in Australian and New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 60079.11:2011Explosive atmospheres—Equipment protection by intrinsic safety ‘i’.
key statutory function means the following statutory functions—
(a) mining engineering manager,
(b) electrical engineering manager,
(c) mechanical engineering manager,
(d) electrical engineer,
(e) mechanical engineer,
(f) quarry manager,
(g) ventilation officer.
light metal alloy means an alloy containing aluminium, magnesium or titanium, or a combination of the metals, but only if—
(a) the metals make up more than 15% of the weight of the alloy, or
(b) magnesium and titanium make up more than 6% of the weight of the alloy.
member—
(a) for Part 11—see section 163, or
(b) for Part 12—see section 167.
methane includes ethane, propane and similar hydrocarbon gases.
mine safety and health representative has the same meaning as in the WHS (MPS) Act, section 37.
mining supervisor, at a mine, means an individual nominated to exercise one or more of the following statutory functions at the mine—
(a) mining engineering manager,
(b) undermanager,
(c) underground mine supervisor,
(d) deputy,
(e) quarry manager,
(f) open cut examiner.
misfire means the complete or partial failure of an explosive to explode as planned.
operator means—
(a) in relation to a mine—the mine operator of the mine, or
(b) in relation to a petroleum site—the petroleum site operator of the petroleum site.
outbye, at a mine, means in a direction towards the closest entrance of the mine.
practising certificate means a practising certificate issued under Part 9, Division 4 that authorises an individual to exercise a statutory function.
principal control plan, for a mine, means—
(a) each plan required to be prepared for the mine under section 30, and
(b) if the mine is an underground mine—the ventilation control plan for the mine, and
(c) the emergency plan for the mine.
principal control plan, for a petroleum site, means—
(a) each plan required to be prepared for the petroleum site under section 30, and
(b) the emergency plan for the petroleum site.
principal hazard—see section 4.
principal hazard management plan means a plan prepared under section 28.
production shift, for Schedule 6—see Schedule 6, section 1.
reclaim tunnel means a tunnel in or under a coal stockpile used for removing coal from the stockpile.
refill station means a place at a mine where compressed air breathing apparatus can be refilled in an emergency.
reject means material left after the processing of extracted minerals.
respirable dust has the same meaning as in the Guidance on the Interpretation of Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants published by Safe Work Australia in April 2012, as in force or remade from time to time.
roadway includes a heading, cut-through or crosscut or a part of a heading, cut-through or crosscut.
rope includes a cable but not an electrical cable.
sample of inhalable dust, for Schedule 6—see Schedule 6, section 1.
sample of respirable dust, for Schedule 6—see Schedule 6, section 1.
scrubber fan means a fan designed to extract dust from the air.
secondary extraction includes pillar extraction, pillar splitting and pillar reduction.
shaft includes a drift.
small gemstone mine means a gemstone mine, including an opal mine, that has fewer than 5 workers.
statutory function—see sections 132(1) and 135(1).
subsidence means the deformation or displacement of a part of the ground surface or subsurface strata caused by the extraction of minerals.
suspend a well means to temporarily seal off the well.
tier-3 quarry means a mine, other than an underground mine or a coal mine, where the mine—
(a) has 5 or fewer full-time equivalent workers, including the quarry manager and contractors, and
(b) does not carry out dredging or blasting activities, and
(c) does not extract more than 30,000m3 of extractive material for sale or reuse in a year.
underground coal mine means an underground mine that is a coal mine.
underground mine means the part of a mine that is beneath the surface of the earth and includes plant and structures that extend continuously from the surface into the part of the mine, but does not include a part of a mine in which highwall mining is carried out.
ventilation control plan means the ventilation control plan prepared under section 65.
ventilation split means the parts of a mine ventilated by a particular branch of the ventilation system.
well means a hole made by drilling from the earth’s surface for the purposes of exploring for, extracting or injecting petroleum, but does not include a hole made for a seismic shot or for stratigraphic assessment.
well servicing means routine maintenance or repairs on an operating well.
well workover means repairs or improvements to a well but does not include well servicing or routine maintenance or repairs on a well that is not operating.
windblast means a significant overpressure of air forced out of a large void at high velocity as a result of the collapse of a mass of rock or material.
winding system means plant, other than a portable winch or plant that is manually operated, that is used in a shaft to lift a person to or from an underground mine or between levels at an underground mine, regardless of whether it is used exclusively for that purpose.