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Mining self-assessments
Mining operations are encouraged to use these self-assessment templates to review their practices and the arrangements in place to manage hazards in the workplace, secure the health and safety of workers and identify areas for improvement.
Pre-WHS mining audit guides and templates
These templates were built under the Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 and regulations and users will need to align their content against the relevant sections of the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 and Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022.
Although some guidance material was prepared by previous departments and divisions, the content is still valid.
Classified plant
- Classified plant management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the classified plant administration audit. - Classified plant management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a classified plant administration audit.
Confined space
- Confined space: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the confined space audit. - Confined space: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a confined space audit.
Development of high heading underground
- Development of high heading underground: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the development of high headings underground audit. - Development of high heading underground: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a development of high heading underground audit.
Electrical arc flash
- Electrical arc flash hazard awareness: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the electrical arc flash hazard awareness audit. - Electrical arc flash hazard awareness: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an electrical arc flash hazard awareness audit.
Electrical safety
- Electrical safety: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the electrical safety management systems audit. - Electrical safety: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an electrical safety audit.
Emergency management
- Emergency management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the emergency management audit. - Emergency management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an emergency management audit.
Explosives
- Explosives: Surface storage and management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the explosives surface storage and management audit. - Explosives: Surface storage and management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an explosives surface storage and management audit. - Explosives: Surface transport, use and disposal: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the explosives surface transport, use and disposal audit. - Explosives: Surface transport, use and disposal: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an explosives surface transport, use and disposal audit.
Fixed plant
- Fixed plant: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the fixed plant template audit. - Fixed plant: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a fixed plant audit.
Geotechnical considerations
- Geotechnical considerations open pit: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the open pit geotechnical consideration template audit. - Geotechnical considerations open pit: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a geotechnical considerations open pit audit. - Geotechnical considerations underground: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the underground geotechnical consideration template audit. - Geotechnical considerations underground: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a geotechnical consideration underground audit.
Gold room
- Gold room: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the gold room audit. - Gold room: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a gold room audit.
Isolation of hazardous energies
- Isolation of hazardous energies: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the isolation of hazardous energies audit. - Isolation of hazardous energies: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an isolation of hazardous energies audit.
Management systems
- Management systems for small mines: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the management systems for small mines audit. - Management systems for small mines: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a management systems audit for small mines. - Management systems: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the management systems audit. - Management systems: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a management systems audit.
Manual tasks
- Manual tasks: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the manual tasks audit. - Manual tasks: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a manual tasks audit.
Mentally healthy workplaces
- Mentally healthy workplaces audit: technical guide
This audit guide provides guidance using the audit tool. - Mentally healthy workplaces audit tool: template
This template has been designed to assist industry conduct a psychosocial harm audit.
Mine survey
- Mine survey: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the mine survey audit. - Mine survey: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a mine survey audit.
Mineral exploration drilling
- Mineral exploration drilling and other field activities: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the mineral exploration drilling and other field activities audit. - Mineral exploration drilling and other field activities: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a mineral exploration drilling and other field activities audit. - Mineral exploration management systems: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the mineral exporation management systems audit. - Mineral exploration management systems: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a mineral exploration management system audit. - Mineral exploration site operations: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the mineral exploration site operations audit. - Mineral exploration site operations: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a mineral exploration site operations audit.
Mobile plant equipment
- Management of mobile equipment maintenance: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the management of mobile equipment maintenance. - Management of mobile equipment maintenance: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a management of mobile equipment maintenance audit. - Mining operations and mobile equipment selection: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the mining operations and mobile equipment selection audit. - Mining operations and mobile equipment selection: audit template
This template has been designed to assist industry conduct a mining operations and mobile equipment selection audit.
Noise
- Noise: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the noise audit. - Noise: audit template
This template has been designed to assist industry conduct a noise audit.
Quarry systems
- Quarry systems: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the quarry systems audit. - Quarry systems: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a quarry systems audit.
Safety and health representatives
- Safety and health representatives: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the safety and health representatives audit. - Safety and health representatives: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct the safety and health representatives audit.
Site deliveries
- Surface and underground operations with site deliveries: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the surface and underground operations with site deliveries audit. - Surface and underground operations with site deliveries: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a surface and underground operations with site deliveries audit.
Surface atmospheric contaminant management
- Surface atmospheric contaminant management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the surface atmospheric contaminant management audit. - Surface atmospheric contaminant management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a surface atmospheric contaminant audit.
Surface dust management
- Surface dust management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the surface dust management audit. - Surface dust management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a surface dust management audit.
Tailings dam
- Tailings dam: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the tailings dam audit. - Tailings dam: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a tailings dam audit.
Tipping and dumping
- Tipping and dumping: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the tipping and dumping audit. - Tipping and dumping: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a tipping and dumping audit.
Traffic management
- Traffic management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the traffic management audit. - Traffic management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a traffic management audit. - Traffic management fundamentals
This audit is designed to provide an efficient assessment of important traffic management fundamentals and to complement the suite of four ‘mobile equipment’ audits covering traffic management safety at mining operations.
Underground fire prevention
- Underground fire prevention: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the underground fire prevention audit. - Underground fire prevention: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an underground fire prevention audit.
Underground mine fill
- Underground mine fill: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the underground mine fill audit. - Underground mine fill: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an underground mine fill audit.
Underground ventilation management
- Underground ventilation management: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the underground ventilation management audit. - Underground ventilation management: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct an underground ventilation management audit.
Village
- Village: Electrical: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the village electrical audit. - Village: Electrical: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a village electrical audit. - Village: Infrastructure: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the village infrastructure audit. - Village: Infrastructure: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a village infrastructure audit. - Village: Mechanical: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the village mechanical audit - Village: Mechanical: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a village mechanical audit. - Village: Occupational health and safety (OHS): audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the village occupational health and safety audit. - Village: Occupational health and safety (OHS): audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a village occupational health and safety audit.
Workshops
- Workshops: audit guide
This audit guide provides information on the workshop audit. - Workshops: audit template
This template is designed to assist industry conduct a workshop audit.
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