What must be included in your safety assessment
The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 requires that the safety assessment documentation prepared by operators of prescribed mines:
- describes the methods used in the investigation and analysis, stating:
- the nature of each major mining hazard (MMH)
- the likelihood of the MMH causing, or contributing to, harm to any person on-site or off-site, and
- the severity of the harm that may be caused
- contains reasons for the decisions reached in relation to the above bullet points
- describes all of the measures that were considered for the control of risks associated with major mining hazards
- describes the reasons for implementing or rejecting all of the risk control measures considered
- is readily comprehensible to all who use it
- is kept and made available for inspection at the mine