Queensland mining industry safety reporting survey

An important part of protecting the safety and health of workers in the Queensland mining industry is ensuring our mines and quarries have a positive safety reporting culture which encourages workers to report safety concerns.

In 2023, the Commissioner for Resources Safety and Health, in cooperation with the Coal Mining Safety and Health Advisory Committee and the Mining Safety and Health Advisory Committee, launched the Queensland Mining Industry Safety Reporting Survey to understand the state of the safety reporting culture across the state's coal mining, mineral mining and quarrying industries.

The survey aimed to identify the reasons why people do, or do not, report high potential incidents, near misses and early warning signs and to establish a baseline of the safety reporting behaviours exhibited at mine and quarry sites. As part of the survey, respondents were asked about safety behaviours demonstrated by their team, their supervisors, and their senior leaders at their worksite.

The survey enabled benchmarking of industry safety reporting culture by providing focus areas for industry and the advisory committees to target for further research and continuous improvement. It also identified the key strengths and opportunities for the coal mining, mineral mining and quarrying industries to achieve a responsive and effective safety reporting culture.

The survey ran from June to September 2023 and a report on the outcomes of the survey was launched by the Minister for Resources and Critical Mineral in March 2024.