Terms of reference for the Mine Safety Advisory Council
The Mine Safety Advisory Council has been established to foster an industry with safety as a core value and to provide advice to the Minister on strategic safety and health matters in the mining industry.
Terms of Reference
- To establish strategic safety and health direction and goals.
- To analyse and review the safety performance of the industry and to provide information to stakeholders so that safety performance can be improved.
- To provide leadership to the mining industry to develop safe and healthy workplaces within a framework which:
- Encourages innovative and safe technology and processes.
- Sets the strategic direction for the industry in developing competent people.
- Advances a legislative framework which leads to safe mining practice.
- To encourage a move towards cross-industry and national standards.
- To interact with the safety advisory committees to enable them to lead their industry sectors, and to inform the work of the Council.
