Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act 1999
LegislationReferenced in 8 bills
Resources Safety and Health Queensland Bill 2019
This bill creates Resources Safety and Health Queensland as an independent statutory body to regulate safety in Queensland's mining, quarrying, explosives and petroleum industries. It implements recommendations from the Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis inquiry, separating the safety regulator from the government department that promotes the mining industry.
Mineral and Energy Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
This bill strengthens workplace safety in Queensland's resources sector by introducing industrial manslaughter offences, while also improving mine rehabilitation oversight, streamlining regulatory processes, and protecting energy and water consumers.
Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill strengthens workplace health and safety laws by giving workers and their representatives more power to address unsafe conditions, making it easier to prosecute the most serious safety breaches, and stopping companies from insuring against safety fines. It implements recommendations from two major reviews of Queensland's work health and safety system.
Mines Legislation (Resources Safety) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill strengthens workplace safety laws for Queensland's mining and quarrying industries, responding to the re-identification of black lung disease among coal miners. It increases penalties, expands inspector powers, requires better qualified ventilation officers, and creates new health surveillance for former miners.
Resources Safety and Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill strengthens workplace safety across Queensland's resources sector following the Coal Mining Board of Inquiry and a review of fatal mining accidents. It requires better risk management through critical controls, mandates competency standards for key safety roles, modernises enforcement powers, and clarifies that companies can be prosecuted for industrial manslaughter when workers die due to criminal negligence.
Medicines and Poisons Bill 2019
This bill modernises Queensland's regulation of medicines, poisons and pest management chemicals by replacing laws dating back to 1937. It creates a new outcome-focused framework using licences and approvals, and establishes a real-time database to track prescriptions of high-risk medicines like opioids.
Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill reforms several health-related regulatory frameworks in Queensland. It repeals the state's medicinal cannabis approval system (which duplicated Commonwealth processes), establishes a register to track occupational dust lung diseases like coal workers' pneumoconiosis, empowers health authorities to require public notices about pollution events, and ensures freehold retirement village residents receive timely payment when they leave.
Coroners (Mining and Resources Coroner) Amendment Bill 2025
This bill creates a dedicated Mining and Resources Coroner to investigate all accidental deaths on Queensland's coal mines, mines, quarries, and petroleum and gas sites. Every mining-related death will now have a mandatory public inquest to determine what happened and how similar deaths can be prevented.