Workplaces & mine sites · Perth, Western Australia
Practical WHS and mine-site OHS consulting for Western Australian businesses, mine operators and contractors. Strengthen risk controls, safety systems and arrangements for managing applicable WHS legislation—with or without ISO certification.
Tenbray provides work health and safety (WHS) and occupational health and safety (OHS) consulting for Perth and Western Australian businesses. Support is available whether you have an established safety system, need to strengthen a particular part of it, or are starting with informal arrangements.
The starting point is how work is actually performed: the tasks people undertake, the hazards they encounter, the controls in place and the records managers use to check those controls. The engagement is then scoped around the issues you need to address, rather than a predetermined documentation package.
Western Australian legislation
Tenbray helps businesses review their safety arrangements against applicable Western Australian work health and safety requirements. The legislation relevant to an engagement depends on the workplace, work activities and legal jurisdiction—not whether the business holds an ISO certificate.
The overarching WHS framework for workplaces within WA's jurisdiction, including mines. Consultancy can support the review of duty-holder responsibilities, risk-management arrangements, worker consultation and the evidence used to monitor safety performance.
View the current WHS Act →Apply to WA workplaces not covered by the Mines or Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Operations regulations. Tenbray can help identify relevant requirements and connect them to practical procedures, responsibilities, controls and review records.
View the current General Regulations →Apply to mining and mineral exploration operations. Tenbray's support can address mine safety management systems, contractor arrangements, hazard-management processes and the records used to demonstrate implementation.
View the current Mines Regulations →The correct rules for the correct workplace. The General and Mines Regulations are not automatically cumulative requirements for every worksite. A contractor's off-site workshop and its activities at a mine may need different regulatory assessments. We identify the applicable framework before defining the review.
Other laws, licences and site requirements may also apply. Tenbray provides safety-management consultancy, not legal advice or a guarantee of compliance. Duty holders retain their legal responsibilities; specialist legal or technical advice is obtained where the scope requires it.
Legislation references checked 5 November 2026. WorkSafe WA explains the legislative framework. Use the linked WA Legislation pages for current consolidated versions.
Mining · Mineral exploration · Contractors
Tenbray supports mine operators, exploration businesses, drilling contractors and mining-service providers with practical safety-management reviews and improvement work. The focus is on connecting applicable legislation and site requirements to the work performed, the controls used and the evidence retained.
Under the Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022, mine operators must establish and implement a mine safety management system (MSMS). This requirement also applies to exploration operations. Tenbray can assist with system development, review and implementation support; the mine operator retains responsibility for its MSMS.
Develop or review the MSMS framework, responsibilities, procedures, records and review arrangements. Check that the system reflects the operation and is followed in practice, rather than existing only as a document.
Support the review of principal mining hazard management plans and critical-control verification arrangements. Regulations 627–629 address hazard identification, risk assessment, preparation and review of the plans. Technical assessments are scoped with appropriately competent specialists where required.
Review contractor safety plans, inductions, task controls and communication with the mine operator. Identify where contractor arrangements need to align with the site's MSMS and where responsibilities or interfaces are unclear.
Review documented management and supervisory responsibilities, relevant appointment records, training and competence evidence. Identify gaps for action by the mine operator without assuming or replacing a statutory appointment.
Review relevant arrangements for mobile plant, isolation, maintenance, high-risk tasks and emergency response. The scope can also address fatigue, psychosocial hazards, incident reporting and worker consultation.
Compare sampled documents, records and workplace practices with agreed legislative and site criteria. Produce evidence-based findings, prioritised actions and follow-up arrangements—not an unsupported declaration that the entire mine is compliant.
Official guidance: WorkSafe WA: mine safety management systems · WorkSafe WA: principal mining hazard management plans.
Practical support
Review relevant activities, existing risk assessments and workplace arrangements. Identify gaps between written procedures and the way work is performed, with practical priorities for improvement.
Develop or refine safe work procedures, inspection checklists, responsibilities and supporting records. Keep the documents relevant to the tasks, people and workplace conditions they are intended to support.
Review how workers raise concerns, contribute to decisions and receive safety information. Clarify how issues are recorded, assigned and followed through rather than simply filed after a meeting.
Support the review of incident-reporting and follow-up arrangements. Help turn findings into actions, clarify responsibilities and establish how the business will check whether changes are effective.
Review how safety expectations are communicated to contractors and built into day-to-day work. Strengthen the links between planning, task controls, induction information and supervision arrangements.
Maintain procedures, registers and review schedules as the business changes. Use inspections, feedback and action tracking to keep the system useful between formal reviews.
What you receive
A safety engagement can focus on one issue or a broader review. Depending on the agreed scope, outputs can include:
A focused engagement
Discuss the work activities, locations, current arrangements and the issue you need resolved.
Examine relevant documents and records, with workplace observation and personnel discussions where included in scope.
Agree priorities, improve the arrangements and identify how actions and effectiveness will be reviewed.
Your questions
No. Tenbray provides standalone WHS and OHS consulting. An engagement can address a safety procedure, risk-control review, incident-management process or ongoing system maintenance without certification being an objective.
Yes. Existing arrangements are reviewed first so useful procedures and records can be retained. Changes should respond to the work and the gaps identified, not replace everything automatically.
Yes. The scope can be a particular activity, site or management process. The work, expected outputs and any on-site attendance are agreed before the engagement starts.
Tenbray is based in Perth. Regional work, travel and the appropriate balance of on-site and remote support are agreed for each engagement.
For mines and mineral exploration within WA's jurisdiction, the key framework is the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 together with the Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022. The Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 apply to workplaces outside the Mines and Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Operations regulatory regimes. The applicable rules are checked against the actual activities and workplace.
No. ISO 45001 is a management system standard, not a substitute for statutory duties. An ISO-aligned system may support your arrangements, but it must still address applicable WHS legislation and, for a mine operator, the required MSMS. Tenbray can provide this support without ISO certification being part of the engagement.
Planning certification as well? The separate ISO 45001 service covers safety management system development and preparation for an independent certification audit. Explore ISO 45001 consulting →
Describe your business, the safety issue and the support you need. Tenbray will discuss a practical scope—without making ISO certification a condition of working together.
info@tenbray.com.auPerth, Western Australia