Compliance and enforcement approach
Our compliance and enforcement approach sets out the principles that underpin the Resources Regulator’s compliance and enforcement processes and regulatory actions and forms part of our risk-based and outcomes-focused approach to compliance and enforcement. It gives guidance on the high-level compliance expectations, enforcement processes and regulatory methods that we will use to ensure that obligations under the legislation that we administer are met.
We produce and share reports on our activities in order to:
- ensure a consistent and responsive regulatory approach
- provide increased transparency and confidence in our compliance and enforcement activities
- promote voluntary compliance by industry
The principles that underpin the Resources Regulator’s compliance and enforcement processes and regulatory actions are provided in our Compliance and enforcement approach. (PDF, 463.3 KB)
Compliance priorities reports and related materials
Compliance priority report January to June 2026
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Outcome reports
Compliance priority outcome reports
| Compliance priority period |
Relevant compliance priority and Outcome report |
| July 2025 to October 2025 |
Metex underground emergency management - emergency exits |
| October 2024 to July 2025 |
Inundation or inrush of substances - coal and metalliferous mines |
| July 2025 to October 2025 |
Fire or explosion management plan - underground coal |
| July 2024 to June 2025 |
Safety management systems - tier 2 quarries (PDF, 1023.23 KB) |
| January 2025 to June 2025 |
Risk management and supervision - metals and extractives (PDF, 665.4 KB) |
| January 2025 to June 2025 |
Risk management and supervision - coal mines (PDF, 514.15 KB) |
| July to December 2024 |
Metalliferous underground - ventilation airborne contaminants (PDF, 363.55 KB) |
| July to November 2024 |
Coal and metalliferous - work platform attachments on mobile plant (PDF, 890.41 KB) |
| July to November 2024 |
Coal surface - risk management and supervision (PDF, 490.71 KB) |
| January 2024 to June 2024 |
Small mines - Blasting explosives (PDF, 389.3 KB) |
| January 2024 to June 2024 |
Small mines - Psychosocial awareness (PDF, 398.76 KB) |
| January 2024 to June 2024 |
Coal surface - lifting and cranage (PDF, 457.2 KB) |
| January 2024 to June 2024 |
Audiometric testing - metalliferous surface/underground (PDF, 423.58 KB) |
| January 2024 to June 2024 |
Airborne contaminants – metalliferous surface/underground (PDF, 402.86 KB) |
| January 2024 to June 2024 |
Coal surface and metalliferous mines - fires on mobile plant (PDF, 854.36 KB) |
View historical Compliance priorities outcome reports