Legislation guidance
Fact sheets and guides relating to WHS legislation and WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) legislation.
WHS legislation
See below for guidance relating to all workplaces in NSW, including mining workplaces, under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017.
- Authorisation to use, handle or store prohibited or restricted carcinogens (DOCX, 94.5 KB)
- Guide to an application for internal review (PDF, 159.23 KB)
- Lead notifications at a mine or petroleum site (PDF, 455.61 KB)
- Request to commence a prosecution fact sheet (PDF, 70.32 KB)
WHS (Mines and petroleum sites) legislation
See below for guidance relating to the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Act 2013 and Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022.
Guides
- Appointment and notification of a petroleum site operator (PDF, 140.64 KB)
- Appointment and notification of mine operator (PDF, 119.27 KB)
- Contractors and other businesses at mines and petroleum sites (PDF, 169.82 KB)
- Licence testing requirements materials to be polymerised underground (PDF, 423.56 KB)
- Managing risks in mine and petroleum operations (PDF, 193.39 KB)
- Managing risks of subsidence (PDF, 396.89 KB)
- Notification of incident and injury (PDF, 241.58 KB)
- Notifying the Regulator of a high risk activity (PDF, 306.72 KB)
- Preparing a principal hazard management plan (PDF, 870.56 KB)
- Guide: Work, health and safety report (PDF, 116.84 KB)
- Quick guide for petroleum site holders and petroleum site operators (PDF, 82.44 KB)
- Statutory functions (PDF, 266.36 KB)
- Understanding the term 'mining operations' (PDF, 267.74 KB)
Fact sheets
- Coal mine safety and health representatives (PDF, 93.9 KB)
- Consulting workers (PDF, 114.21 KB)
- Contractors
- Exercising work health and safety regulator functions outside mining or petroleum sites (PDF, 109.53 KB)
- Mine or petroleum site record (PDF, 135.91 KB)
- Notifying the regulator of reportable events (PDF, 135.42 KB)
- Use of oxygen candles in refuge chambers at underground mines (PDF, 201.77 KB)
- Winding systems for small gemstone mines (PDF, 567.04 KB)
Information sheets and position papers
- Position paper: Tiered classification of quarries (PDF, 92.47 KB)
- Position paper: Prevention of worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica (PDF, 264.03 KB)
- Live electrical work (PDF, 107.94 KB)
- Use of non-certified electrical equipment in a hazardous zone (PDF, 107.22 KB)
- Carry box requirements for shotfirer vehicles when transporting mixed loads (PDF, 334.66 KB)
- Dust control on mobile crushing plant (PDF, 238.45 KB)
- Suspending or cancelling a practising certificate (PDF, 129.09 KB)
- Winding systems for small gemstone mines (PDF, 102.53 KB)
Forms related to all of the above guidance material can be found on our legislation forms page.
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