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Cowal <strong>Gold</strong> Project – Cyanide Management Plan The following sections identify major requirements in the areas of dangerous goods, pollution and mining which may be of relevance to cyanide management at the Project. Dangerous Goods Laws Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 (NSW), Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 (NSW) On 1 September 2005 the NSW Dangerous Goods Act 1975 and Dangerous Goods (General) Regulation 1999 were repealed and the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Dangerous Goods) Act 2003 and the supporting Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Dangerous Goods) Regulation 2005 commenced. The changes mean that dangerous goods (apart from explosives) are now regulated under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001. The new regulatory framework requires anyone using or keeping dangerous goods to adopt a risk management approach. Pollution Laws Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW) This Act creates a number of offences relevant to the management of cyanide, including: • non-compliance with EPL licence conditions; • the wilful or negligent disposal of waste in a manner that harms or is likely to harm the environment; • the wilful or negligent causing of a substance to leak, spill or otherwise escape in a manner that harms or is likely to harm the environment; • the unlawful transporting of waste; • the pollution of waters; and • the proposed new offence of land pollution. Mining Laws Mines Inspection General Rule 2000 This Rule requires the general manager of a mine to keep records and have systems to manage document use. General duties and obligations relevant to this CMP include the following: • “The general manager of a mine must ensure that any chemicals at the mine: (a) are marked so as to indicate their identity, any hazard associated with their use and any safety precautions to be observed in their use or storage; (b) are the subject of exposure controls sufficient to ensure that workers are not harmed by them; and (c) are the subject of information and training on any hazards associated with their use at the mine” (Clause 52). HAL-02-07/1/25/CMP-01-Q.DOC BARRICK
Cowal <strong>Gold</strong> Project – Cyanide Management Plan • “A person who uses, handles, stores, produces, transports or disposes of a hazardous substance at a mine must do so in a manner that does not tend to injure, or threaten the safety and health of, any person.” (Clause 53(1)). • “The general manager of a mine must ensure that the mine personnel have: (a) adequate information and training in dealing with hazardous substances, including instruction in the safe handling of hazardous substances, training to understand material safety data sheets; and (b) sufficient conveniently stored equipment to respond to a spillage, poisoning or other emergency involving hazardous substances” (Clause 53(2)). • “The general manager of a mine must ensure: (a) that risk assessments are carried out for all hazardous substances used in the mine; and (b) that adequate controls are put in place to minimise exposure of persons to hazardous substances used in the mine” (Clause 53(4)). • “A person must not: (a) manufacture a hazardous chemical at a mine; or (b) use a hazardous chemical at a mine; or (c) supply a hazardous chemical to any other person for use at a mine, unless the proposed manufacture, use or supply of that particular chemical is consistent with any procedures that are set out in relation to that chemical in a code of practice approved by the Minister from time to time” (Clause 58(1)). • “… the general manager of a mine must ensure that: (a) hazardous chemicals are handled and transported safely at the mine; and (b) persons working at the mine who are exposed to hazardous chemicals and the working environment of such persons, are monitored and that records are kept of such exposure and monitoring; and (c) the number of persons working at the mine exposed to hazardous chemicals and the degree of exposure is reduced to the minimum compatible with safety” (Clause 58(2)). Specifically Clause 55(2) of the Mines Inspection General Rule, 2000 requires that: “The general manager of a mine must keep or cause to be kept an accessible and up-to-date register of all hazardous substances at the mine that is consistent with any procedures that are set out in codes of practice approved by the Minister from time to time”. HAL-02-07/1/25/CMP-01-Q.DOC BARRICK
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