Licensed activities
Licensing is a way of making sure people carrying on high risk activities have the training, systems, equipment and procedures to conduct them safely or to restore critical risk controls to a safe state.
Certain potentially hazardous activities in a coal operation require a licence and must not be carried out without one. This is a legal requirement under Part 9 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2014.
Application forms
Activities that require a licence are detailed below. Applications must be made on the relevant form and submitted to cau@planning.nsw.gov.au
The application must attach evidence to demonstrate that all activities carried out under the licence will be:
- supervised by a competent person
- carried out by workers who have had training in safe working methods in relation to the activity, and
- carried out by workers who have:
- completed a course of training specified by the regulator in relation to the activity, or
- appropriate experience or training in the carrying out of the activity
- carried out using procedures, equipment and facilities that are suitable for those activities.
Application forms by licensed activity
Sampling or analysing airborne dust under Schedule 6 of WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2014
Applicable mine type: Coal
Application form (DOCX, 131.19 KB) | List of current licences (PDF, 24.85 KB)
Sampling or analysing of diesel engine exhaust under clause 75 of WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2014
Applicable mine type: Underground coal
Application form (DOCX, 110.58 KB) | List of current licences (PDF, 28.15 KB)
Overhauling or repairing activities that may affect the explosion-protection properties of explosion-protected diesel engine systems (ExDES)
Applicable mine type: Underground coal
Application form (DOCX, 120.84 KB) | List of current licences (PDF, 47.71 KB)
Overhauling or repairing activities that may affect the explosion-protection properties of explosion-protected electrical plant
Applicable mine type: Underground coal
Application form (DOCX, 131.19 KB) | List of current licences (PDF, 65.57 KB)
Any repairing of flexible reeling, feeding or trailing cables for use in a hazardous zone
Applicable mine type: Underground coal
Application form (DOCX, 109.43 KB) | List of current licences (PDF, 79.67 KB)
Undertaking a polymeric process
Applicable mine type: Underground coal
Application form (DOCX, 116.25 KB) | List of current licences (PDF, 95.41 KB)
Further resources
Change of information
This form is to be used to apply for a change of information that was previously given in an application for a licence under Part 9 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2014 (the Regulation).
Fact sheets
Reporting non-compliance
Schedule of fees
A fee may be applicable to your application. For further information see the Schedule of fees for authorisations page.