Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)RegulationsGuideline for a Mandatory Code of PracticeOccupational Health Programme (Occupational Hygiene and Medical Surveillance) on Personal Exposure to Airborne PollutantsPart D : Implementation |
| 1. | IMPLEMENTATION PLAN |
| 1.1. | The employer must prepare an implementation plan for its COP that makes provision for issues such as organisational structures, responsibilities of functionaries and programmes and schedules for the COP, that will enable proper implementation of the COP (a summary of and a reference to, a comprehensive implementation plan may be included). |
| 1.2. | Information may be graphically represented to facilitate easy interpretation of the data and to highlight trends for the purposes of risk assessment. |
| 2. | COMPLIANCE WITH THE CODE OF PRACTICE |
The employer must institute measures for monitoring and ensuring compliance with the COP.
| 3. | ACCESS TO THE CODE OF PRACTICE AND RELATED DOCUMENTS |
| 3.1 | The employer must ensure that a complete COP and related documents are kept readily available at the mine for examination by any affected person. |
| 3.2 | A registered trade union with members at the mine or where there is no such union, a health and safety representative on the mine, or, if there is no health and safety representative, an employee representing the employees on the mine, must be provided with a copy on written request to the manager. A register must be kept of such persons or institutions with copies to facilitate updating of such copies. |
| 3.3 | The employer must ensure that all employees are fully conversant with those sections of the COP relevant to their respective areas of responsibilities. |