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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (MINES) REGULATIONS 2022 - REG 631C

631C .         Quarry operations

        (1)         In complying with regulation 617, the mine operator of a mine must manage risks to health and safety associated with quarry operations at the mine.

        (2)         In managing risks to health and safety as described in subregulation (1), the mine operator must have regard to all relevant matters, including the following —

            (a)         design, layout, operation, maintenance and closure of the quarry operation;

            (b)         loading and dumping of material into or from vehicles;

            (c)         demarcation of edges of geotechnical structures and illumination;

            (d)         protection against fall of equipment and persons;

            (e)         adverse effects of quarry operations during mining and after closure of the mine on nearby structures that are not part of the mine;

            (f)         unauthorised inadvertent access into quarry operations, whether those operations are suspended or closed.



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