Resources Safety and Health Queensland

RSHQ.2026.117.1

Thursday 22 January 2026 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Friday 20 March 2026 05:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time) CLOSED

Saturday 07 March 2026 05:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Friday 17 April 2026 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Resources Safety and Health Queensland

275 George St
Brisbane City, Queensland 4000
Australia

https://www.rshq.qld.gov.au/

Resources Safety & Health Queensland (RSHQ) is the independent regulator of worker safety and health in Queensland's mining, quarrying, petroleum, gas and explosives industries.

Maria-Alicia Gomez

Manager, Strategic Procurement

07 3199 8006

0435887852

None Provided

maria-alicia.gomez@rshq.qld.gov.au

Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) is seeking to engage a suitably qualified expert to review emerging issues in how health assessments are caried out under the Coal Mine Workers’ Health Scheme (CMWHS). The review will specifically inform RSHQ’s position on two matters, in the context of the objectives and requirements of the CMWHS:

Whether it is clinically appropriate for a health assessment examination, or aspects of the examination, to be completed by anyone other than an examining doctor (EMO) or supervising doctor (SD).

Whether it is clinically appropriate for a health assessment examination, or aspects of the examination, to be carried out via telehealth or video call, or use of other emerging medical technology (e.g. digital stethoscope).

This review will inform RSHQ’s policy position on key aspects of health assessment delivery, clinical governance and regulatory enforcement.

The Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 (Act) and the Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017 (Regulation) establishes a regulatory framework that protects the safety and health of workers affected by operations at a coal mine in Queensland. This includes provisions for mandatory health surveillance through the Coal Mine Workers’ Health Scheme (CMWHS). Coal mine workers must have an assessment on entering the industry and then at least every five years while employed in the industry. The CMWHS is used to determine fitness for work and to provide early diagnosis and intervention for respiratory diseases like coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and silicosis.

RSHQ maintains a register of providers approved to carry out functions under the CMWHS. This includes examining medical officers (EMO) who complete the examination section of the health assessment and supervising doctors (SD) who carry out, supervise and report on health assessments. Employers are required to appoint one or more supervising doctors as their appointed medical adviser (AMA). A list of approved providers registered under the CMWHS is published on RSHQ’s website.

Quality health assessments are vital for accurate and timely disease detection, ensuring suitable fitness for work decisions and identifying workplace restrictions to manage risks to acceptable levels. Recent compliance activities and anecdotal evidence highlights the need for an evaluation of completed health assessments to ensure quality, reliability and consistency in decision making. In response, the Occupational Health division will be delivering a Quality doctor assessment project to assess doctors’ performing functions under the CMWHS. Issues identified that have informed the initiation of this project include:?

health assessment examinations undertaken by a nurse rather than an EMO or SD; and

health assessment examinations undertaken via telehealth or video call.

The Supplier will meet the following mandatory requirements:

Medical qualifications, registration and professional expertise

Current registration to practise medicine in Australia or current medical registration in good standing in another jurisdiction suitable for consultancy/expert review services for this engagement.

Expertise in occupational medicine practice through health surveillance and/or fitness for work programs.

Clinical governance capability, including experience establishing and/or supervising nurse-led assessment models (clear scope of practice, protocols, escalation pathways, and documentation).

Telehealth competence. Including experience implementing, delivering, or evaluating telehealth/telephone clinical assessments (e.g., patient identification, consent, privacy, examination limitations, risk triage, escalation to in-person review).

Occupational medicine experience

Applied occupational medicine decision-making in regulated schemes, for example, fitness-for-work judgements, restriction setting, and follow-up within statutory frameworks.

Design/oversight of nurse-led examinations, including safe task allocation, competency/credentialing, real-time supervision options (including remote), escalation thresholds, and documentation standards.

Telehealth service evaluation/operation, including defining clinically appropriate use cases, handling examination limitations, triage to in-person assessment, and documenting clinical reasoning.

Mine dust lung disease literacy, including practical understanding of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and/or silicosis assessment components (targeted history, limitations of remote physical exam, interpretation of supporting tests, referral pathways).

Legislation-to-practice translation, including ability to map CMWHS legislative intent to workable models of care and articulate compliance risks/controls for telehealth and delegated examinations.

Contract Compliance

• New South Wales
  1: Offshore (NSW)
  2: Sydney
• Queensland
  1: Brisbane
  2: Central West
  3: Darling Downs
  4: Far North
  5: Fitzroy
  6: Mackay
  7: North West
  8: Northern
  9: Offshore (QLD)
  10: South West
  11: Wide Bay-Burnett
• Western Australia
  1: Central
  2: Lower Great Southern
  3: Midlands
  4: Perth
  5: South Eastern
  6: South West
  7: Upper Great Southern

Regions of service locations also include areas outside of Australia.

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