Mining & Resources
Five compliance obligations. Four vendors. One audit that exposes every gap.
OccuSpan covers all five — in one system, with one complete audit trail.
Mining OHS in Australia means AS 4308:2023 and AS 4760:2019 D&A chain of custody, STS-detecting audiometry under the NOHSC criteria, IROJ-matched fit-for-task sign-off, COPSOQ III psychosocial risk assessment with mining sector benchmarks — and a regulator who expects all of it documented, traceable, and current. When those obligations live across four separate vendor systems, you don't have a compliance program. You have four partial records and a gap you'll discover at the worst possible time.
Five regulatory obligations. One system.
Mining and resources employers in Australia are accountable for five specific areas of occupational health compliance. Most manage them through a combination of separate vendors, paper records, and manual consolidation. Here is what each obligation requires — and what happens when the records are fragmented.
D&A chain of custody
AS 4308:2023 (urine collection) · AS 4760:2019 (oral fluid collection)
Risk of fragmented records
In a regulator audit, WorkCover dispute, or coronial inquiry, an incomplete chain of custody record can void the result — even if the collection was performed correctly. An employer who collected the sample by the standard can still lose a case because the paper trail has gaps.
What OccuSpan provides
Digital chain of custody enforced end-to-end. Collection record, confirmation lab request, MRO review, outcome documentation. Every step timestamped, every handoff recorded. No paper gaps. One auditable record.
See detail →Audiometry surveillance
Safe Work Australia noise guidance · NOHSC exposure standards
Risk of fragmented records
Standard Threshold Shifts that are detected but not acted on are a regulatory liability. Patterns that develop across a team and are never identified because the data was never looked at as a population are a workers' compensation liability.
What OccuSpan provides
Annual and pre-placement audiometry with STS detection. Population trend analysis — the shift pattern that becomes visible only in the aggregate. CAPA auto-triggered on STS detection. ANZSIC industry benchmarking.
See detail →Fit-for-task
Safe Work Australia health surveillance guidance · Role-specific risk assessments
Risk of fragmented records
A fit-for-task assessment that uses a generic health standard rather than the documented demands of the specific mining role is legally fragile. If a worker is placed in a role and sustains an injury, "they passed our medical" is not a defence if the medical did not reference what the role actually demanded.
What OccuSpan provides
IROJ-referenced fit-for-task. The assessment criteria are derived from the clinician-signed Inherent Requirements of the Job document — the physical demands, environmental conditions, and psychosocial flags specific to that mining role. Pass/fail is explicit and referenced to the documented standard.
See detail →Psychosocial risk (ISO 45003)
ISO 45003:2021 · SWA Managing Psychosocial Hazards Code of Practice 2024
Risk of fragmented records
ISO 45003 is increasingly referenced in regulator enforcement and procurement requirements. Remote/isolated work, fatigue, extended rosters, and shift patterns are all named psychosocial hazards in the SWA Code — and they are the defining features of mining employment.
What OccuSpan provides
COPSOQ III deployed to your mining workforce, benchmarked against Rahimi et al. (2025) Australian mining sector norms. Identifies where isolation, job demands, and leadership quality sit relative to the industry. MIA engine generates an intervention program from the results.
See detail →Population health reporting
Workers' compensation insurer requirements · Regulator due diligence
Risk of fragmented records
A board that cannot demonstrate it has a population-level view of workforce health — not just individual incident records — is increasingly exposed in coronial, regulator, and civil liability contexts.
What OccuSpan provides
Aggregated population health report across all five domains — audiometry, D&A records, fit-for-task, psychosocial risk, and general health surveillance. ANZSIC benchmarks applied. Board-ready format. Generated within the platform.
See detail →The regulatory audit advantage
One record. Everything in it.
When a regulator audits a mining operation's occupational health records, or when a WorkCover dispute requires disclosure of the OHS management record, the evidence from four separate vendor systems — four data formats, four access processes, four gaps where records don't match — is a material disadvantage.
OccuSpan produces a single integrated record across all five obligations. Every D&A collection, every audiometry result, every fit-for-task outcome, every psychosocial survey deployment, and every CAPA is in the same system, with the same timestamp format, referenced to the same worker and the same role.
In a coronial inquiry or a serious injury investigation, that single integrated record is not just convenient — it is the difference between a defensible response and a fragmented one.
FAQ
Common questions
Does OccuSpan support AS 4308:2023 drug and alcohol chain of custody?
Yes. OccuSpan's D&A module enforces the chain of custody end-to-end — collection record, confirmation lab request, MRO review, and outcome documentation — aligned with AS 4308:2023 (urine) and AS 4760:2019 (oral fluid). The full record is digital and auditable.
Can OccuSpan manage audiometry surveillance for a mining workforce?
Yes. OccuSpan supports annual and pre-placement audiometry with Standard Threshold Shift detection, population trend analysis, CAPA integration on flagged results, and ANZSIC industry benchmarking.
How does OccuSpan handle psychosocial risk in remote mining operations?
OccuSpan deploys COPSOQ III surveys to remote and fly-in fly-out workforces via email or SMS. Group scores are benchmarked against Rahimi et al. (2025) Australian mining sector norms. The MIA engine generates an intervention program from the results. ISO 45003-aligned throughout.
See all five obligations in one system
Book a 30-minute demo. We will walk through your five specific mining compliance obligations — and show you how OccuSpan integrates all of them into one auditable record.
Book a demo →AS 4308:2023 · AS 4760:2019 · ISO 45003:2021 · Safe Work Australia NDS · Data hosted in Sydney · ISO 27001-aligned infrastructure