Training Material – Mine Health & Safety Act 29 of 1996

PRODUCT TABLE OF CONTENT_5

CHAPTER 1: OBJECTS OF ACT

1. Objects of Act

CHAPTER 2: HEALTH AND SAFETY AT MINES

3. Employer to ensure safety
4. Employer must appoint manager
5. Employer may entrust functions to another person
6. Employer to maintain healthy and safe mine environment
7. Employer to ensure adequate supply of health and safety equipment
8. Employer to staff mine with due regard to health and safety
9. Employer must establish health and safety policy
10. Codes of practice
11. Employer to provide health and safety training
12. Employer to assess and respond to risk
13. Employer to conduct occupational hygiene measurements
14. Employer to establish system of medical surveillance
15. Record of hazardous work
16. Record of medical surveillance
17. Annual medical reports
18. Exit certificates
19. Costs of examination
20. Employees’ right to information
21. Employee may dispute finding of unfitness to perform work
22. Manufacturer’s and supplier’s duty for health and safety
23. Employees’ duties for health and safety
24. Employees’ right to leave dangerous working place
25. Employees not to pay for safety measures

CHAPTER 3: HEALTH AND SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES AND COMMITTEES

25. Health and safety representatives and committees
26. Negotiations and consultations before appointment of representatives
27. Designation of working places
28. Qualifications of representatives
29. Election and appointment of representatives
30. Rights and powers of representatives
31. Duty to compensate and assist representatives
32. Duty to inform representatives
33. Negotiation and consultation on establishment of committees
34. Establishment of health and safety committees
35. Committee procedures
36. Rights and powers of health and safety committee
37. Duty to support committee
38. Disclosure of information
39. Disputes concerning disclosure of information
40. Disputes concerning this Chapter

CHAPTER 4: TRIPARTITE INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 5: INSPECTORATE OF MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 6: MINISTERS POWERS

CHAPTER 7: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND OFFENCES

CHAPTER 8: GENERAL PROVISIONS

40 MINE SAFETY HAZARDS:

1. Dust (Act Section 76, Regulation 9.2)
2. Noise (Regulation 11.4)
3. Radiation (Act Section 76)
4. Thermal stress (heat and cold) (Regulation 9.2(2))
5. Flammable gas (Regulation 23.4(g))
6. Toxic gas (Regulation 23.4(c))
7. Asphyxiant gas (Regulation 23.4(c))
8. Explosions (Regulation 5.1)
9. Fires (Regulation 5.1)
10. Flooding (Regulation 14.4)
11. Rock falls (Regulation 14.1)
12. Rock bursts (Regulation 14.1)
13. Seismic activity (Regulation 14.7)
14. Subsidence (Regulation 23.4(b))
15. Electrical hazards (Chapter 3)
16. Mechanical hazards from machinery (Chapter 8)
17. Fall hazards (Regulation 14.5)
18. Hazardous chemicals (Regulation 9.2(4))
19. Explosive materials (Chapter 4)
20. Airborne pollutants (Regulation 9.2(2))
21. Ergonomic hazards (implied in various sections)
22. Confined spaces (implied in various sections)
23. Moving equipment (Regulation 8.10)
24. Conveyor belts (Regulation 8.9)
25. Winding equipment hazards (Regulation 23.4(h))
26. Hazards from pressure vessels (Regulation 23.4(m))
27. Hazards from lifting equipment (Regulation 8.5)
28. Drowning hazards (Regulation 14.5)
29. Inundation hazards (Regulation 14.4)
30. Hazards from self-propelled mobile equipment (Regulation 8.10)
31. Hazards from trackless mobile machinery (Regulation 8.10)
32. Hazards from underground rail transport (Regulation 8.2)
33. Hazards from chairlifts (Regulation 8.12)
34. Biological hazards (implied in occupational health sections)
35. Hazards from inadequate ventilation (Regulation 9.1)
36. Hazards from draw points, tipping points, and rock passes (Regulation 10.3)
37. Hazards from scraper winch and mono-rope installations (Regulation 8.4)
38. Hazards from refrigeration and air conditioning systems (Regulation 8.7)
39. Hazards in hazardous locations (Regulation 8.10)
40. Hazards from water storage and pumping systems (Regulation 10.2)