CONSISTENT workplace health and safety laws benefitting miners and other industries have come into effect in NSW.
Laws are now the same across all industries, allowing workers to move between industries knowing they are covered by the same basic protections.
Regulations cover a range of nationally agreed standards on manual handling and noise, dangerous goods, hazardous substances, and various types of high-risk work.
Under the reforms, the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 applies to the State’s mining industry in full from 1 September 2008.
Additional reforms to benefit the state’s metalliferous and extractive industries are set to follow, with the commencement of the Mine Health and Safety Act 2004 and the Mine Health and Safety Regulation 2007.
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and WorkCover NSW have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure safety laws are administered in a consistent manner.
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