The Quarterly Safety Report for October to December 2020 has been released to assist industry to improve safety management systems and undertake risk assessments at their sites. The report details incidents and trends relating to hazard management, in addition to sector specific information.
As a high-hazard regulator, we focus on compliance with legislative requirements associated with principal and other high-risk hazards. ‘Roads or other vehicle operating areas’ and ‘fires or explosion’ are hazards that feature regularly in incident notifications to the Regulator.
In this quarter, total incident notifications received by principal hazard were down slightly (from 198 to 195). Key principal mining hazards that saw the largest rise in notifications, compared to the previous quarter were; spontaneous combustion, ground or strata failure and air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants.
Click here to read the report (PDF, 5.65 MB).
