Submission Legislation Employment of Statutory Officials in Qld Coal Mines

The link below is the submission I sent to the Qld Parliament Transport and Resource Committee about the Coal Mining Safety and Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

Submission Transport Resources Employment Statutory Officials

This legislation is arguably the most retrograde piece of Legislation ever introduced into the Queensland Parliament in relation to any sort of strengthening Corporate Responsibility or “Direct Duty of Care” for Mine Workers Safety and Health.

 It has demonstrably made the situation even more loose and open ended than it has ever been since Coal Mining Safety and Health Legislation was first introduced in Queensland in 1925.

 It will not change any of the current situation adverse situations it supposedly seeks to remedy and will in fact allow for all the current different ways OCE’s and ERZC’s are currently employed if not more.

 The 2022 tabled bill does the exact opposite of the claims of Minister Stewart in his introductory speech to Parliament.

 It now for the first time will directly allow for the SSE not to be employed by the Operator at all.

 The 80% rule is a complete and utter piece of a deliberately confected legal quagmire.

 It needs to be removed from the Bill altogether.

 All that is happening is that the mistakes of the past are being repeated with the inevitable death and injuries that flow.