1 | All mining operations | | Commencement of highwall mining | | 1 month |
| | | Entering a highwall mining excavation | | 48 hours |
2 | All mining operations | | Shot-firing underground, where shot-firing has not been undertaken within a year before the intended time of shot-firing | | 7 days |
3 | All mining operations | | Commissioning or use of mine shaft and winding systems plant | | 3 months |
4 | Underground mining operations and tunnelling operations | | Working within inrush control zones or before drilling in circumstances covered by regulation 132 | | 1 month |
5 | Underground mining operations and tunnelling operations | | Entry by any mine worker into any sealed area of the underground parts of the mining operation | | 7 days |
6 | Underground metalliferous mining operations and tunnelling operations where methane has been detected | | Hot work in the underground parts of the mining operation | | 1 month before first hot work covered existing by hot work approval system 24 hours before each occasion of hot work covered by an existing hot work approval system thereafter |
7 | Underground mining operations | | Single entry development (being the development of a roadway or a drift for more than 200 metres without forming an intersection) | | 1 month |
8 | Underground mining operations | | Shaft or drift sinking, raise boring or development of a new entry to the underground parts of the mining operation | | 3 months |
9 | Underground mining operations | | The use of voltages in excess of 1 200 V in ERZ1 for electrical plant other than electrical plant and cables associated with longwall mining | | 3 months |
10 | Underground metalliferous mining operations | | Newly devised method of mining a rise involving drill and blast and entry to the rise | | 1 month |
11 | Coal mining operations | | The establishment or discontinuance of emplacement areas | | 3 months |
12 | Coal mining operations | | Secondary workings: | | 3 months |
| | | • | pillar or pillar dimension reduction | | |
| | | • | longwall | | |
| | | • | miniwall | | |
| | | • | shortwall | | |
13 | Underground coal mining operations | | Injection or application of polymeric material for ventilation or strata | | 24 hours |
14 | Underground coal mining operations | | Driving an underground roadway with a width greater than 5.5 metres | | 7 days |
15 | Underground coal mining operations | | Widening an existing underground roadway | | 7 days |
16 | Underground coal mining operations | | Installation of a booster fan underground | | 3 months |
17 | Underground coal mining operations | | Hot work in a NERZ or an ERZ1 | | 1 month before first hot work covered by existing hot work approval system 24 hours before each occasion of existing hot work covered by a hot work approval system thereafter |
18 | Underground coal mining operations | | Live electrical work in an ERZ0 or a ERZ1 | | 7 days before first live electrical work covered by existing live electrical work approval system 24 hours before each occasion of live electrical work covered by existing live electrical work approval system thereafter |
19 | Underground coal mining operations | | The introduction for the first time of a vehicle with a non-flameproof (fire-protected) diesel engine to a NERZ | | 3 months |
20 | Underground coal mining operations | | The use of voltages in excess of 4 000 V in an ERZ1 for electrical plant and cables associated with longwall mining | | 3 months |
21 | Underground coal mining operations | | Barrier mining (meaning the mining of a barrier or protective pillar against the external boundaries of the workings of the mining operation, against any outcrop of the seam and between any underground workings and any open-cut workings. The requirement to notify is triggered when the width of the barrier is proposed to be less than 40 metres between adjoining workings of adjacent mining operations) | | 3 months |
22 | Underground coal mining operations | | • | multi-seam mining | | 3 months |
| | • | formations of small pillars | | |
| | | • | shallow depth of cover | | |
| | | • | mining under massive roof conditions | | |
| | | • | mining under significant bodies of water | | |