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South Australia
Mine safety within South Australia is legislated through the state general OHS legislation with specific sections dealing with additional mining matters. Browsing through the various classifications within this jurisdiction will present the relevant documents associated with various aspects of mining safety.
There are a total of 14 documents from 3 organisations within this category.
Legislation 3 documents from 1 organisations.
Legislation
Occupational health and safety in mines and mining operations in South Australia is regulated under the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act and Regulations (in particular Divisions 5.12 relating to ‘mining work’ and 5.13 relating to ‘opal mining’) and the Mines and Works Inspection Act and Regulations.
The termsmining or mining operations generally refer to any operations carried on in the course of searching for or recovering any mineral or any operations carried on at any works situated on or adjacent to a mining operation.
SafeWork SA administer the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act and Regulations (including the mining specific regulations in Divisions 5.12 and 5.13). Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA) administer the Mines and Works Inspection Act and Regulations.
SafeWork SA OHS inspectors, appointed as Inspectors of Mines under the Mines and Works Inspection Act 1920, carry out the functions associated with regulating health and safety on mine sites.
Principal legislation which applies to mines in South Australia:
Mines and Works Inspection Act 1920
Mines and Works Inspection Regulations 1998
Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986
Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1995
Specific Legislation Documents
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Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986 |
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Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 2010 |
252kb3 documents from 1 organisations.
Standards Referred to in Legislation 2 documents from 2 organisations.
Standards Referred to in Legislation
Standards are published documents by Standards Australia setting out specifications and procedures designed to ensure products, services and systems are safe, reliable and consistently perform the way they were intended to. They establish a common language which defines quality and safety criteria.
Compliance with Australian Standards are mandatory where they are specifically referred to in the legislation..
2 documents from 2 organisations.
Codes of Practice/Recognised Standards 8 documents from 1 organisations.
Codes of Practice/Recognised Standards
Codes of Practice
A code of practice provides practical guidance on how to comply with a general duty or a specific duty. It describes, without being prescriptive, safe work practices that can be used to reduce the risk of work-related injury and disease.
Work practices included may not represent the only acceptable means of achieving the standard to which the code refers.
Compliance with codes of practice is not mandatory but they may be used by courts as the standard when assessing other methods or practices used.
8 documents from 1 organisations.
Organisations with compliance documents for South Australia (SA)
