Health and Safety Trust

Mission of the Trust:

The Trust’s mission is to seek out, nurture and apply quality research for the benefit of coal miners.

Coal Services Health & Safety Trust operates by Deed and was formed on the 19th December 1991. The Trust’s primary areas of interest are the occupational health and safety of coal mine workers in the Australian Coal Industry across all states.

The objectives of the Trust are:

• The investigation and research of ways and means of identifying, measuring and ameliorating hazards in coal mines to coal mining personnel and coal mining communities and with particular reference to preventing illness, injuries and accidents and
• The resolution of engineering, medical, geological, economic, industrial relations and general management issues which may impinge on health and safety issues in coal mines, the mining environment and mining communities.