Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)Chapter 3 : Health and Safety Representatives and Committees31. Duty to compensate and assist representatives |
| (1) | The employer must pay every full-time health and safety representative appropriate remuneration at least equal to the remuneration the representative earned immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative. |
| (2) | The employer must provide reasonable time and facilities for employees to meet monthly with their health and safety representatives in order to consider— |
| (a) | health and safety in their working places; and |
| (b) | reports by the representatives on the performance of their functions. |
| (3) | The employer must provide health and safety representatives with— |
| (a) | the facilities and assistance reasonably necessary to perform their functions; |
| (b) | training that is reasonably required to enable them to perform their functions; and |
| (c) | time off from work, without loss of remuneration, to attend any training course that is agreed or prescribed. |
| (4) | Unless otherwise agreed, the assistance referred to in subsection (3)(a) does not include any costs associated with advisers or independent experts contemplated in either section 30(1)(h) or section 36(1)(g). |
| (5) | On the completion of a term of office as a full-time health and safety representative, the health and safety representative is entitled to— |
| (a) | employment in the same position held immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative; or |
| (b) | employment in a position that is at least as favourable as the position held immediately before being appointed a full-time health and safety representative. |