The NSW Survey & Drafting Directions for Mine Surveyors were gazetted on Friday 2nd October 2015.
Legislation and Safety
Articles relating to legislation and/or safety.
- General Overview of Coal Titles Under the Mining Act 1992
- Application of Surveying and Drafting Directions 2007 (Revised)
- The Impact of The Coal Mining Health and Safety Act 1999 and Regulations on Mine Surveying
- The Gretley Disaster - Politics of a Tragedy
- Gretley Information & Retraining Seminar - Nov 1998
- The Gretley Coal Mine Disaster: Reflections on the Finding that Mine Managers were to Blame
Gretley Information & Retraining Seminar 1998
A Collection of Papers presented at the 1998 Gretley Information and Training Seminar
December 2006
Gretley Disaster - Surveyor Acquitted
A Full Bench of the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission has overturned the previous finding by a single judge, Staunton J, that the surveyor at the Gretley mine was “concerned in the management of” the Corporation, and therefore guilty of an offence under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000.
In a 370 page decision, the charges against the Surveyor Mark Robinson have been dismissed and no conviction recorded.
The Politics of a Tragedy
The Gretley Mine Disaster and the dangerous state of work safety laws in New South Wales. A paper by Ken Phillips - Director of the Work Reform Unit of the Institute of Public Affairs
High quality pdf file - about 5 Mb
Lower quality pdf file - about 1.4 Mb
November 2005
The Gretley Coal Mine Disaster
Reflections on the Finding that Mine Managers were to Blame.
A working paper by Andrew Hopkins, Professor of Sociology,National Research Centre for OHS Regulation, Australian National University.
March 2005
Gretley Fines
Media Article 4
Media Article 5
The full judgement
November 2004
The Gretley Mine OHS Prosecution
Article on the website of Blake Dawson Waldron (lawyers) regarding the Gretley inrush. Some sobering reading...
Click here to download
August 2004
1996 Gretley Mine Disaster Convictions
Media Article 1
Media Article 2
Article 3 - OHS Alert
The full judgement
