The implementation of a planned inspection program for mines and petroleum sites is a crucial element in the Resource Regulator's incident prevention strategy.
Planned inspection programs focus on assessing a mine operator's control of critical risks and evaluate the effectiveness of control measures in the operator’s safety management system (SMS). The assessment typically involves sampling specific elements of the safety management system and ensuring the controls are both documented and implemented.
Download the Targeted assessment program (TAP) overview (PDF, 87.22 KB) for more information on the program.
Inspection program fact sheets and reports
Fact sheets
Prior to the commencement of an inspection program, a fact sheet is published for the industry to outline the principal hazard in focus and the various risks that are associated with that hazard.
Each fact sheet then specifically details the critical controls which are planned to be assessed within the inspection program as well as specific publications or guidance material that are relevant to the subject.
View our inspection program fact sheets
Electrical energy
Explosives
Falling objects
Fire or explosion
- Fire or explosion - Electrical - Underground coal operations (PDF, 527.36 KB)
- Fire or explosion - Electrical - Metalliferous mines and tier 1 quarries (PDF, 481.68 KB)
- Fire or explosion - Mechanical - Surface/underground metalliferous mines and large quarries (PDF, 345.65 KB)
- Fire or explosion - Mechanical - Underground coal operations (PDF, 709.34 KB)
Ground or strata failure
- Ground or strata failure - Stockpile stability, surface coal operations (PDF, 353.49 KB)
- Ground or strata failure - Surface coal operations (PDF, 598.08 KB)
- Ground or strata failure - Surface metalliferous operations and tier 1 quarries (PDF, 761.37 KB)
- Ground or strata failure - Underground coal operations (PDF, 402.09 KB)
- Ground or strata failure - Underground metalliferous operations (PDF, 341.22 KB)
- Ground or strata failure - Small mines slope stability (PDF, 848.43 KB)
Health control
Inundation or inrush
Lead risk work notifications
Puddling operations
Roads or other vehicle operating areas
Assessment program reports
NSW Resources Regulator uses a bowtie hazard management framework and standardised assessment checklist for each program plan. Under each program plan, the effectiveness of the safety management system at each mine site is assessed against a standard set of control supports and critical controls, with the program outcomes and assessment findings published in the final reports available below.
View our inspection program reports
| Date | Critical risk being assessed | Mine type | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Ground or strata failure - slope stability (PDF, 360.92 KB) | tier 1 quarries and surface metalliferous mines | consolidated report |
| April 2023 | Roads or other vehicle operating area, unplanned movement underground - stage 1 (PDF, 878.74 KB) | underground coal mines | consolidated report |
| February 2023 | Ground or strata failure (PDF, 299.25 KB) | underground metalliferous | consolidated report |
| February 2023 | Exposure to uncontrolled release of electrical energy (PDF, 673.6 KB) | coal mines stage 1 | consolidated report |
| February 2023 | Mine shafts and winding systems (PDF, 373.97 KB) | metalliferous | consolidated report |
| February 2023 | Falling objects - lifting and cranage (PDF, 450.75 KB) | tier 1 and surface metalliferous | consolidated report |
| February 2023 | Ground or strata failure - secondary extraction (PDF, 404.64 KB) | coal underground | consolidated report |
| January 2023 | Fire or explosion - electrical (PDF, 336.8 KB) | Metalliferous mines and tier 1 quarries | consolidated report |
| January 2023 | Emergency planning self escape refuge (PDF, 393.42 KB) | underground mines | consolidated report |
| November 2022 | Ground or strata failure - slope stability (PDF, 520.21 KB) | coal mines above surface | consolidated report |
| August 2022 | Ground or strata failure - slope stability (PDF, 491.48 KB) | small mines | consolidated report |
| June 2022 | Ground or strata failure (PDF, 341.44 KB) | underground coal | targeted intervention program |
| August 2022 | Entanglement (PDF, 624.98 KB) | metalliferous |
planned inspection program consolidated report |
| August 2022 | Fire or explosion - mechanical (PDF, 456.03 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| July 2022 | Air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants - stage 2 (PDF, 547.7 KB) | coal mines above surface | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| July 2022 | Targeted Intervention Campaign - Vehicle interactions (PDF, 204.6 KB) | surface coal and metalliferous mines | TIC overview |
| June 2022 | Ground or strata failure - stage 2 (PDF, 626.46 KB) | open cut coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| June 2022 | Air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants - stage 2 (PDF, 521.28 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| June 2022 | Entanglement (PDF, 726.78 KB) | small mines | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| March 2022 | Ground or strata failure risks in the underground metalliferous sector (PDF, 498.78 KB) | metalliferous | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| March 2022 | Spontaneous combustion underground coal mines (PDF, 475.63 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| March 2022 | Fire or explosion - Electrical - Underground coal mines (PDF, 465.58 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| December 2021 | Fire or explosion - Mining - Surface metalliferous mines (PDF, 526.49 KB) | metalliferous | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| December 2021 | Ground or strata failure – slope stability (PDF, 490.07 KB) | open cut coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| November 2021 | Fire or explosion – Surface coal - Mechanical (PDF, 542.55 KB) | surface coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| October 2021 | Roads or other vehicle operating areas (PDF, 483.1 KB) | surface coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| October 2021 | Fire or explosion maintain non-explosive atmosphere (PDF, 455.76 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| October 2021 | Fire or explosion - mining - surface coal (PDF, 682.64 KB) | surface coal | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| September 2021 | Fire or explosion – mining – underground metalliferous mines (PDF, 479.01 KB) | underground metalliferous mines | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| September 2021 | Inundation or inrush of any substance (PDF, 454.83 KB) |
underground coal |
planned inspection program consolidated report |
| September 2021 | Inundation or inrush of any substance (PDF, 536.82 KB) | metalliferous (below surface) | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| September 2021 | Roads and other vehicle operating areas (PDF, 715.19 KB) | metalliferous | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| September 2021 | Fire or explosion (PDF, 173.98 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection program report |
| September 2021 | Fire or explosion (PDF, 196.21 KB) | petroleum well sites | planned inspection program report |
| September 2021 | Air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants (PDF, 686.16 KB) | metalliferous | consolidated report |
| September 2021 | Air quality or dust or other airborne contaminants (PDF, 442.34 KB) | underground coal | consolidated report |
| August 2021 | Entanglement - Coal mines (PDF, 659.4 KB) | coal mines | entanglement consolidated report |
| August 2021 | Roads and other vehicle operating areas (PDF, 607.28 KB) | small mines and quarries | planned inspection program consolidated report |
| July 2021 | Dust and other airborne contaminants (PDF, 667.78 KB) | open cut coal | planned inspection consolidated report |
| July 2021 | Lead risk (PDF, 399.89 KB) | metalliferous | consolidated report |
| January 2021 | Fire or explosion: Electrical (PDF, 424.7 KB) | open cut coal | planned inspection consolidated report |
| December 2020 | Roads or other vehicle operating areas (PDF, 585.7 KB) | open cut coal | planned inspection consolidated report |
| December 2020 | Ground or strata failure (PDF, 437.04 KB) | underground coal | planned inspection consolidated report |
| June 2020 | Fatigue (PDF, 478.42 KB) | metalliferous | final TAP consolidated report |
| February 2020 | Fire or explosion (PDF, 1.1 MB) | underground coal | final TAP report |
| November 2019 | Respirable dust (PDF, 1 MB) | quarry operations | TIP consolidated report |
| August 2019 | Dust and other airborne contaminants (PDF, 257.6 KB) | open cut coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| August 2019 | Fire or explosion (PDF, 289.9 KB) | metalliferous | final TAP consolidated report |
| August 2019 | Diesel exhaust emissions (PDF, 280.52 KB) | underground coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| November 2018 | Fires on mobile plant (PDF, 508.58 KB) | open cut coal | planned inspection consolidated report |
| November 2018 | Dredges (PDF, 773.82 KB) | mining dredges | planned inspection consolidated report |
| September 2018 | Managing fire or explosion risks (PDF, 220.93 KB) | underground coal | interim TAP report |
| August 2018 | Airborne contaminants (PDF, 183.37 KB) | open cut coal | interim TAP report |
| July 2018 | Airborne contaminants (PDF, 187.57 KB) | metalliferous | final TAP consolidated report |
| June 2018 | Emergency management (PDF, 190.51 KB) | underground metalliferous and coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| April 2018 | Worker exposure to diesel exhaust emissions (PDF, 181.48 KB) | underground coal | interim TAP report |
| January 2018 | Airborne contaminants (PDF, 170.3 KB) | metalliferous | final TAP consolidated report |
| January 2018 | Coal dust explosion suppression (PDF, 216.07 KB) | underground coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| November 2017 | Structural integrity (PDF, 4.2 MB) |
coal preparation plants |
planned inspection consolidated report |
| October 2017 | Worker exposure to respirable dust (PDF, 287.06 KB) | underground coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| September 2017 | Gas outburst risk in longwall mining (PDF, 368.06 KB) | underground coal | final TIP consolidated report |
| September 2017 | Diesel exhaust emissions (PDF, 279.43 KB) | underground metalliferous and coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| September 2017 | Ground or strata failure (PDF, 315.56 KB) | metalliferous | final TAP consolidated report |
| August 2017 | Fatigue management practices (PDF, 760.87 KB) | open cut coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| August 2017 | Emergency management (PDF, 520.49 KB) | underground metalliferous and coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| May 2017 | Electrical safety (PDF, 379.59 KB) | Dimension stone quarries | TIP summary |
| April 2017 | Diesel exhaust emissions (PDF, 280.52 KB) | underground metalliferous and coal | final TAP consolidated report |
| April 2017 | Ground or strata failure (PDF, 541.3 KB) | metalliferous | final TAP consolidated report |
| April 2017 | Worker exposure to respirable dust (PDF, 287.06 KB) | underground coal | |
| March 2017 | Gas and ventilation management (PDF, 143.59 KB) | underground coal | final TAP consolidated report |