Contacts

Complaints about safety and health at mines

The Queensland mine safety laws allow mine workers or their representatives to make confidential complaints about safety and health matters to the Mines Inspectorate. These complaints must be investigated and the name of the person making the complaint must not be revealed. Legislation relating to complaints is section 254 of the Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act 1999 and section 275 of the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999.

Before a person makes a complaint to the Mines Inspectorate, the person should bring the issue to the attention of the person's supervisor or site senior executive. This can be done personally or through a site safety and health representative.

Contacts for the Mines Inspectorate are as per link attached:

Mines Inspectorate contact list (PDF 27kB)

Last Updated 24 September 2009