Complete course list

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to carry out workplace training and assessment.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to provide advanced first aid and coordinate the scene until qualified emergency help arrives.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to perform advanced resuscitation and CPR techniques.

This course refreshes your knowledge and understanding of managing airborne contaminants in the mining industry.  

This course refreshes your knowledge and understanding of leadership and mentoring, as well as managing airborne contaminants in the mining industry.  

This course refreshes your knowledge and understanding of managing airborne contaminants, fire and explosions in the mining industry.   

This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to work with explosives in underground coal mines.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to perform CPR in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Guidelines.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to enter a confined space, issue work permits and perform standby or supervisory duties.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge of working in confined spaces, work permits, standby requirements and confined space rescue.

Please note this is a refresher only, no statement of attainment or units of competency are issued.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in risk awareness and control when working at heights or around conveyors.

This course refreshes your knowledge of legislation and specific roles and responsibilities related to Emergency Management.

This course refreshes your knowledge in Work Health and Safety Legislation, Emergency Management, and your role and responsibilities.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to establish and maintain mine emergency preparedness and response systems in Surface Coal and Surface/Underground Metalliferous mining.

This course develops your competency and confidence to prepare for and manage all aspects of an emergency situation in an underground coal mine.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to control an incident scene whilst liaising between first responders, arriving emergency services and incident management teams.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to implement workplace emergency response procedures in the role of Emergency Warden.

This course provides you with a sound understanding of the requirements to function as a Fire Officer at a coal mine.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to assess, plan and fight a fire; as well as perform the role of a Fire Officer in the mining sector.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to provide first aid until qualified emergency help arrives at the scene. 

This course introduces you to the underground coal mining industry where you will gain the skills and knowledge to work as an underground coal mine worker in NSW and Qld.

This course refreshes your critical self-escape skills and Work Health and Safety (WHS) knowledge to safely and competently undertake work in an underground coal mining environment

This full-day course includes both our Self-Escape Refresher and WHS Refresher courses.

This course refreshes your critical self-escape skills and Work Health and Safety (WHS) knowledge to safely and competently undertake work in an underground coal mining environment

This full-day course includes both our Self-Escape Refresher (including OSCSR) and WHS Refresher courses.

This course includes simulator oxygen-generating self-contained self-rescuers (OSCSR) training to comply with the 3-yearly requirement within Section 103 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 (NSW).

This course refreshes your knowledge and understanding of managing hazardous substances in the mining industry.  

This course refreshes your knowledge and skills to continue in the role of a Health and Safety Representative (HSR) in NSW.

This course provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to fulfil the role of a Health and Safety Representative (HSR) in NSW.

This course will familiarise you with the ICCS management system and how it can be applied to your operations.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge of incident investigations in mining.

This course refreshes your knowledge of the supervision and inspection requirements for the mining industry. 

This course refreshes your knowledge of Work Health and Safety legislation as well as the supervision and inspection requirements for the mining industry.  

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in leadership and people management.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in leadership and mentoring.

This course aims to share learnings from past mining disasters to prevent reoccurrences and to improve the health and safety of everyone working in the mining industry.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in Work Health and Safety legislation within the mining industry.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to perform a rescue from a live low voltage panel.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge of various mining methods and impacts.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge of various mining fundamentals including extraction methods, shotfiring and explosive operations.

This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to fulfil your role in the coal industry as a Mine Safety and Health Representative, traditionally known as Check Inspectors.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to perform the role of workplace assessor.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to apply and monitor risk management processes and use effective communication techniques appropriate to the role of an OCE or Supervisor.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to select, don, operate and maintain breathing apparatus equipment (CABA) in an irrespirable atmosphere.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge required to provide pain management.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to carry out risk management processes in the coal and metalliferous mining industries.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in risk assessment and risk management.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in risk assessment and risk management and control, including safety around working at heights or conveyors.

This course provides you with an understanding of road crash rescue equipment and techniques in a rescue environment.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to take roadway dust samples at a mine, and to check the level of incombustible material within those samples.  

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge required to work at heights following safe working practices.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to assess, withdraw and escape from an underground mine during a hazardous situation, using breathing apparatus.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to assess, withdraw and escape from an underground mine during a hazardous situation, using breathing apparatus.

This course includes simulator oxygen generating self-contained self-rescuers (OSCSR) training to comply with the 3-yearly requirement within Section 103 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 (NSW).

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge to use a variety of breathing apparatus should you need to self-escape an underground coal mining environment

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge to use a variety of breathing apparatus should you need to self-escape an underground coal mining environment

This course includes simulator oxygen-generating self-contained self-rescuers (OSCSR) training to comply with the 3-yearly requirement within Section 103 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 (NSW).

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge of shotfiring and explosive operations for the underground coal industry.  

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge of strata management and related risks; as well as your understanding of incident investigation methods in mining.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in strata management and related risks within the mining industry.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to assist at the blast site for underground shotfiring operations.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to perform the role of workplace trainer.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge to perform the role of a workplace trainer assessor.

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge required to move loads using cranes and gantries and conduct underground lifting operations in the coal mining industry.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in ventilation and strata management.

This course refreshes your skills and knowledge in ventilation management and control for the mining industry.

This hands-on course teaches you the skills to perform a vertical rescue using specific rescue equipment in an emergency situation.

This course refreshes your knowledge in a variety of subjects such as principal hazards, isolation, hazard and risk identification, and other relevant WHS matters within the NSW coal mining industry

The RII20320 - Certificate II in Underground Coal Mining introduces you to the skills and knowledge required to work as an operator in an underground coal mining environment.

The RII40420 - Certificate IV in Underground Coal Operations prepares you to take on the more senior responsibilities of mining supervisors and team leaders (Deputies) such as managing teams, implementing risk management systems and applying statutory requirements.

The RII40420 - Certificate IV in Underground Coal Operations prepares you to take on the more senior responsibilities of mining supervisors and team leaders (Deputies) such as managing teams, implementing risk management systems and applying statutory requirements.

The RII50920 - Diploma of Underground Coal Mining Management prepares you to take on the responsibilities of mining supervisors (Undermanagers), including managerial, planning and technical skills to successfully operate with a high level of autonomy.

The RII50920 - Diploma of Underground Coal Mining Management prepares you to take on the responsibilities of mining supervisors (Undermanagers), including managerial, planning and technical skills to successfully operate with a high level of autonomy.

Expressions of interest.

Mines Rescue offers a range of courses aligned to the Queensland Continuous Professional Development Scheme for practising certificate holders.