PROPOSED DECISIONMAKING FLOWCHART FOR SECTION 54 s STOPPAGES

PROPOSED DECISION-MAKING FLOW-CHART FOR SECTION 54 s STOPPAGES: FOR EACH DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE, PRACTICE OR CONDITION: STEP 1: Rank the extent that the dangerous occurrence, practice or condition endangers or may endanger the health and safety of employees (1 -5 with 1 being very small and 5 being very large) (For consistency, a standard risk assessment approach such as SIMRAC reports GAP 225 should be applied. ) (For transparency, written justification should be provided) Rank from Step 1? 1 -3 Consider other enforcement options 4/5 STEP 2: Has risk been mitigated or identified by management and is being mitigated? N STEP 3: Are there similar dangerous occurrences, practices or conditions across the mine overseer ‘s section as observed by inspector through representative sampling? (3 or more = 1; <3=0). Y Stop section 54 stoppage consideration

STEP 4: Have any section 55 s or section 54 s (with no stoppage) for part of the section been issued on similar or related dangerous occurrences, practices or conditions in the past 12 months? (Yes – 1; No = 0) (Guidance should be provided on ‘similar or related’, ‘dangerous practices’ or ‘dangerous condition’. ‘Dangerous occurrence’ is defined in regulations 23. 4) STEP 5: Any fatalities on the mine from similar or related dangerous occurrences, practices or conditions in the past 6 months? (Yes – 1; No = 0) STEP 6: STEP 7: Any serious(>13 d off) injuries in mine overseer’s section from similar or related dangerous occurrences, practices or conditions in the past 6 months? (Yes – 1; No = 0) Are management actions and systems generally aimed at proactively improving health and safety? (No = 1; Yes = -1) (For transparency, justification should be provided)

Add scores from Steps 3 - 7 STEP 8: Consider other options, enforcement 1/2/3 4/5 Score from Step 8? Are there similar dangerous occurrences, practices or conditions across section manager sections (3 or more mine overseer sections = Yes) Y Close whole section manager section N Are there similar dangerous occurrences, practices or conditions across the mine (defined by 3. 1 appointment) (3 or more section man sections = Yes) No further action Close relevant section N Y Close whole mine