- Title
- Harmonization and standardization of risk management of underground ventilation in Australia
- Creator
- Tuck, Michael; Pillay, Manikam
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69251
- Identifier
- vital:4941
- Abstract
- In Australia, all states and territories in Australia have maintained their own and separate set of laws for regulating health and safety. The difference has been more pronounced in the mining sector. The main reason for maintaining these separate regimes in mining has been based on an old-age argument that the hazards, culture and circumstances of the mining industry are somewhat different to those existent in other industries. As a result there are at least three different structures of the health and safety law in Australia. In recent years, however, there has been push by industry and government to drive some consistency and harmonization in regulating health and safety. To address this disparity the Federal Government has, in consultation with the states and territories, developed and issued the Model Work Health and Safety Act (WHSA) and the Model Work Health and Safety Regulations (WHSR) which is expected to become a uniform set of health and safety laws for the country. For the mining sector, a draft set of Regulations and Codes of Practice aimed at harmonizing health and safety has been issued. It is expected this will provide the country’s first ever set of standards and benchmarks for the mining sector. This paper compares and contrasts the existing and the proposed set of laws in the three states of Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. It concludes with a discussion on what the proposed laws mean for managing risks associated with ventilation in underground mining
- Publisher
- University of Utah
- Relation
- 14 U.S./North American Mine ventilation symposium p. 31-38
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Work Health and Safety Act; Codes of practice; Underground ventilation
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