MDG15 and mining safety in NSW
Channel: CMMS Success
Date: 2023-03-07

The Australian state of NSW has approximately 40 active coal mines, and the central West of NSW has mines that produce molybdenum, tungsten, copper, gold, niobium, and phosphate. You may be surprised to learn that NSW is Australia's second largest gold producing state.
In all mines in New South Wales, mobile and transportable equipment must be designed, manufactured, and used in accordance with Mine Design Guideline 15 (MDG15). 
Mine Design Guidelines established an industry standard for engineering requirements and equipment that was suitable for the coal mining sector in NSW. 
MDG15 is a great illustration of how business and government can work together to accomplish a common objective.
MDG15 has had some incredibly worthwhile goals since its inception, and we celebrated its 30th anniversary in NSW last year, in 2022. These objectives centre on reducing, and ideally eliminating, previously intolerably high rates of accidents involving individuals using and maintaining mobile equipment, mobile equipment fires, and unplanned movements of mobile equipment. 
As part of the process by which regulators are updating and revising MDGs, Mine Design Guidelines (MDG) will gradually be phased out in favour of Technical Reference Guides (TRG).
To learn more, you can visit: 
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