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Opal mining safety workshop – July
… Street, Lightning Ridge … This two-day safety awareness course has been combined with … skills required to be a mine operator at an opal mine, including safety policy, hazard … requirements that must be undertaken by opal mine holders and operators. Individuals …
Opal mining safety workshop - June
… Street, Lightning Ridge … This two-day safety awareness course has been combined with … skills required to be a mine operator at an opal mine, including safety policy, hazard … requirements that must be undertaken by opal mine holders and operators. Individuals …
New WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation
… The Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation … the need to register items of plant in an opal mine with prescribed safety requirements … operations. The new regulation also exempts opal mines from needing to prepare a …
Dust disease toolkit
… dust. … The member organisations of the Mine Safety Advisory Council have combined resources … Take steps to ensure your own personal safety, as well as the safety of your work mates. View the dust …
Hazardous chemicals
… … All workplaces must manage health and safety risks associated with the use, storage … outlined in Chapter 7 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017, in addition to the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Act 2013 …
Tourist mines
… Sites) laws, then only the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and associated Regulation will … (section 125) managing risks to health and safety associated with mining operations … implementing, maintaining and reviewing a safety management system (section 18-22) …
Update: COVID-19 situation
… under the Mining Act have now resumed. Safety inspection and assessment activity have … programs and compliance priorities. The Opal Miners Safety Awareness Courses has been reworked for …
Environmental management and rehabilitation at Lightning Ridge
… Areas disturbed by opal prospecting and mining activities should … is undertaken so that areas disturbed by opal prospecting and mining activities are … potential pollutants under work health and safety legislation (e.g. for the management of …
Quarterly safety report – April to June 2024
… published its April to June 2024 Quarterly Safety Report to help mine and petroleum site … their obligations under the Work Health and Safety Regulation. The report highlights: An … gemstones), small mines and quarries, opal mines, petroleum and geothermal sites, and …