Hazardous Substances and Contaminant Monitoring (CONTAM)
Guidance material on contaminant monitoring (CONTAM) including mine manager's responsibilities, procedures, forms, record sheets and information on how to change your contact details.
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Mine manager’s responsibilities
Contaminant monitoring system procedures
Have your contact details changed since you last registered with CONTAM?
Mine manager’s responsibilities
Under the Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 (WA), mine managers are required to inform the District Inspector, for the region in which the mine is situated, of any occurrence at the mine which had the potential to cause serious injury or harm to health - even when no injury or harm has in fact happened.
The Mine Safety and Inspection Regulations 1995 (WA) require the mining industry to regularly sample for atmospheric contaminants and report results to Resources Safety.
Since 1977, sample results submitted to Resources Safety have been recorded on a computerised system, now known as CONTAM.
Contaminant monitoring system procedures
The CONTAM system procedures (below) provides information on the CONTAM process, including:
- Risk assessment
- Exploration companies
- Mining companies
- Workforce survey
- Quota allocation
- Information on submitting CONTAM forms.
Forms and record sheets
Forms and record sheets related to CONTAM are provided below.
Have your contact details changed since you last registered with CONTAM?
CONTAM registration expires after five years.
If you have not changed your details since you registered with CONTAM please email the changes to contammanager@dmp.wa.gov.au, or send us a note when you next submit sample records.
Occupational hygiene consultants
A list of occupational hygiene consultants is available from the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Incorporated.
