Your jurisdiction’s numbers, with their source.
Each mine site chooses its rule pack. The readiness board’s rescue minimum, inspection intervals and record periods come from it. Every value carries its source, and values still to confirm with you are marked until you do.
Queensland coal mines
Values confirmedThe greater of 5 or 5% of coal mine workers. Emergency plan tested every 12 months. Explosives stores inspected at least every 3 months, records kept 5 years.
Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017 s 173; Explosives Regulation 2017Queensland metalliferous mines and quarries
Values to confirmEmergency plan tested every 12 months; rescue numbers set by the site. Explosives as for Queensland coal.
Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017 s 40New South Wales coal mines
Values confirmed5% of the underground workforce, contractors included. 6 hours under oxygen in 24. Plan tested yearly. Self-rescuer training every 6 months; coal effort training every 3 years.
Coal Industry Act 2001 s 36 and Mines Rescue NSW rules; WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 ss 96, 103New South Wales metalliferous mines
Values to confirmPlan tested yearly. Self-rescuer training every 6 months. Rescue numbers by risk assessment.
WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 ss 96, 103Western Australia mines
Values to confirmPlan tested at least yearly. Refuge chamber inspection every 7 days. Explosives stores inspected monthly, records kept 2 years. Rescue numbers by risk assessment.
Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 r 669; Dangerous Goods Safety (Explosives) Regulations 2007Victoria mines
Values to confirmEmergency plan tested yearly.
Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 r 435Model WHS (Mines): SA, Tasmania, NT
Values to confirmEmergency plan tested every 12 months.
Model Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations as adopted in eachNew Zealand mining and tunnelling
Values confirmedTwo teams of six where 40 or more work underground. Self-rescuer training quarterly. Plan tested every 12 months.
Health and Safety at Work (Mining Operations and Quarrying Operations) Regulations 2016; WorkSafe ACOP Emergency preparedness 6.1, 6.3Papua New Guinea (company standard)
Values to confirmYour company standard, entered with you.
Mining (Safety) Act; large operators set their own standardA rule pack is the starting point for your site’s settings, not legal advice. The site confirms each value against its own emergency plan and the law where it operates, and can set its own rescue minimum where the plan calls for more.
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