A Consultation Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) for Model Work Health and Safety Regulations and Codes of Practice for Mines was released for public comment on 10 October 2011. Currently, mining work health and safety is regulated primarily under jurisdictions’ work health and safety legislation in the Commonwealth, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory; under mine safety specific legislation in Queensland and Western Australia and under a hybrid model of both work health and safety and mine-specific legislation in New South Wales. As there has been lack of agreement between jurisdictions to adopt a single national model for mining health and safety legislation, a common set of ‘core’ regulations have been developed to be agreed by jurisdictions as the basis for a consistent approach to regulating mine safety across all jurisdictions. ‘Non-core’ regulations are expected to be developed separately by the mining states (New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia) to supplement the ‘core’ regulations and adopted in their proposed separate mine safety legislative instruments to cover matters that could not be agreed upon to be included in the ‘core’ regulations. The information provided to Safe Work Australia in submissions and consultations will help guide the development of a decision RIS and the model regulations and codes of practice for mines. The Consultation RIS has been assessed as adequate by the Office of Best Practice Regulation.
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