Compliance and enforcement approach
Our compliance and enforcement approach sets out the principles that underpin the NSW Resources Regulator’s compliance and enforcement processes and regulatory actions and forms part of our risk-based and outcomes-focused approach to compliance and enforcement. It gives guidance on the high-level compliance expectations, enforcement processes and regulatory methods that we will use to ensure that obligations under the legislation that we administer are met.
We produce and share reports on our activities in order to:
- ensure a consistent and responsive regulatory approach
- provide increased transparency and confidence in our compliance and enforcement activities
- promote voluntary compliance by industry
The principles that underpin the NSW Resources Regulator’s compliance and enforcement processes and regulatory actions are provided in our Compliance and enforcement approach (PDF, 537.75 KB). This forms part of our risk-based and outcomes-focused approach to compliance and enforcement. It gives guidance on the high-level compliance expectations, enforcement processes and regulatory methods that we will use to ensure that obligations under the legislation that we administer are met.
Statewide compliance operations
The following reports outline the findings of our statewide compliance operations conducted annually that focus on the NSW mining and petroleum sectors compliance obligations on issues ranging from work, health and safety to mine site rehabilitation.
Compliance priorities reports and related materials
- January - June 2024 (PDF, 2.65 MB)
- July - December 2023 (PDF, 1.41 MB)
- January - June 2023 (PDF, 705.34 KB)
- July - December 2022 (PDF, 1.05 MB)
- Opal mining compliance priorities January - December 2022 (PDF, 1.44 MB)
- January - June 2022 (PDF, 792.92 KB)
- July - December 2021 (PDF, 1.03 MB)
- Opal mining compliance priorities January - December 2021 (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- January - June 2021 (PDF, 2.44 MB)
- July - December 2020 (PDF, 2.45 MB)
- January - June 2020 (PDF, 5.09 MB)
- July - December 2019 (PDF, 715.81 KB)
- January - June 2019 (PDF, 5.18 MB)
- July - December 2018 (PDF, 180.89 KB)
- January - June 2018 (PDF, 223.92 KB)
- July - December 2017 (PDF, 239.01 KB)
- July - December 2017 - summary calendar (PDF, 89.64 KB)
Outcome reports
| Compliance priority period |
Relevant compliance priority and Outcome report |
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| July 2023 to October 2023 |
Metalliferous mines - air quality ventilation (PDF, 535.36 KB) |
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| March 2023 to August 2023 |
Small mines mobile plant safety (PDF, 352.12 KB) |
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| April 2023 to August 2023 |
Small mines legislation (PDF, 576.87 KB) |
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| April 2023 to August 2023 |
Small mines pressure vessels (PDF, 656.85 KB) |
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| January 2023 - May 2023 |
Hazard reporting - small mines (PDF, 272.67 KB) |
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| January 2023 - May 2023 |
Roads or other vehicle operating areas stage 1 - dumps and excavation areas - surface coal mines (PDF, 639.09 KB) |
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| February 2023 - June 2023 |
Pressure vessels in metalliferous mines (PDF, 412.08 KB) |
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| August 2022 - April 2023 |
Working from heights in small mines (PDF, 442.6 KB) |
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| January 2023 - May 2023 |
Psychosocial risks in metalliferous mines (PDF, 473.14 KB) |
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| January 2023 - April 2023 |
Implementation of Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 - Metalliferous and extractive mines and petroleum sites (PDF, 662.16 KB) |
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| January 2023 - May 2023 |
Implementation of Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 - Coal mines (PDF, 570.3 KB) |
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| January 2023 - May 2023 |
Coal psychosocial hazards (PDF, 593.7 KB) |
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| June 2022 - November 2022 |
Emergency preparedness - small mines (PDF, 112.28 KB) |
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| June 2022 - November 2022 |
Hazard reporting of safety-related issues - surface and underground coal mines (PDF, 106.56 KB) |
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| June 2022- August 2022 |
Surface coal - windrows and edge protection standards (PDF, 107.74 KB) |
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| December 2022 |
Hazard reporting of safety-related issues - Tier 1 quarries and metalliferous mines (PDF, 177.95 KB) |
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| January 2022 - June 2022 |
Training and competence - coal (PDF, 114.88 KB) |
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| January 2022 - June 2022 |
Training and competence - small mines (PDF, 139.4 KB) |
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| January 2022 - June 2022 |
Training and competence - surface and underground metalliferous mines (PDF, 299.26 KB) |
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| January 2022 - March 2022 |
Underground coal - gas management (PDF, 297.38 KB) |
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| February 2021-December 2021 |
Working at heights - opal mines (PDF, 297.71 KB) |
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| September - December 2021 |
Proximity awareness and collision avoidance technology -open cut coal mines (PDF, 281.28 KB) |
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| July - December 2021 |
Positive communication (metalliferous mines and Tier-1 quarries) (PDF, 143.23 KB) |
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| July - November 2021 |
Blast exclusion zones in small mines (PDF, 359.96 KB) |
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| June - October 2021 |
Contractor management (coal) (PDF, 176.68 KB) |
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| January - June 2021 |
Contractor management (small mines) (PDF, 185.02 KB) |
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| April - August 2021 |
Hazardous chemicals – surface and underground coal mines (PDF, 209.17 KB) |
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| April - July 2021 |
Hazardous chemicals - metalliferous mines and Tier-1 quarries (PDF, 196.75 KB) |
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| February 2021 to July 2021 |
Landform establishment to support post-mining final land use (PDF, 959.88 KB) |
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| January - June 2021 |
Contractor management (metalliferous mines and Tier-1 quarries) (PDF, 175.42 KB) |
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| January - June 2021 |
Interaction between mobile equipment and workers in development areas of underground coal mines (PDF, 203.18 KB) |
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| March - December 2020 |
Materials and soil management to support the post-mining final land use (PDF, 1.57 MB) |
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| July - November 2020 |
Changes to exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica (Small mines) (PDF, 212.56 KB) |
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| July - October 2020 |
Changes to exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica (Metalliferous: Surface and underground) (PDF, 211.28 KB) |
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| July - November 2020 |
Changes to exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica (Coal: Surface and underground) (PDF, 185.97 KB) |
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| January - June 2020 |
Self-escape systems in underground mines (PDF, 140.2 KB) |
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| January - June 2020 |
Change management (ensuring change management procedures are in place) (PDF, 192.54 KB) |
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| January - June 2020 |
COVID-19 inspection program (PDF, 227.65 KB) |
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| November 2019 - May 2020 |
Tailings managment to support post-minig final land use (PDF, 922.59 KB) |
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| July - December 2019 |
Conveyor belts - lifeline standards and fire risk - underground coal (PDF, 190.36 KB) |
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| July - December 2019 |
Roadway and intersection design standards - Surface (PDF, 138.26 KB) |
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| July - December 2018 |
Articulated truck rollovers and falls from mobile plant (PDF, 205.33 KB) |
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| July - December 2018 |
Drill rigs in metalliferous mines (PDF, 258.02 KB) |
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| July - December 2018 |
Surface vehicle interactions (PDF, 173.88 KB) |
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| July - December 2018 |
Ground and strata failures (PDF, 177.28 KB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Gas outburst (PDF, 368.06 KB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Coal handling and preparation plants (PDF, 4.2 MB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Heat stress (PDF, 159.04 KB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Lightning Ridge opal mining (PDF, 164.11 KB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Health control plan (PDF, 261.93 KB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Methods of working and control of bench heights (PDF, 64.76 KB) |
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| July - December 2017 |
Plant used in the hazardous zone (PDF, 57.88 KB) |
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