Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)RegulationsGuideline for a Mandatory Code of PracticeProvision of Personal Protective Equipment for Women in the South African Mining IndustryPart C: Format and Content of the Mandatory Code of Practice7. Risk Management |
| 7.1 | Section 11 of the MHSA requires the employer to identify hazards, assess the health and safety risks to which employees may be exposed while they are at work, record the significant hazards identified and risk assessed. |
| 7.2 | The COP must address how the significant risks identified in the risk assessment process must be dealt with, having regard to the requirements of sections 11(2) and (3) that, as far as reasonably practicable, attempts should first be made to eliminate the risk, hereafter to control the risk at source, thereafter to minimise the risk and thereafter, insofar as the risk remains, to provide PPE and to institute a program to monitor the risk. |
| 7.3 | A proper hazard identification and risk assessment must be conducted on all the activities at the mine. The information must be kept readily available at the mine. |
| 7.4 | To assist the employer with the hazard identification and risk assessment, all possible relevant information such as Annual Medical reports, occupational injury statistics, relevant research reports, design criteria, performance figure protocols, guiding documentation for practitioners and relevant standards should be obtained and considered. |
| 7.5 | In addition to the periodic review required by section 11(4) of the MHSA, the COP should be reviewed and updated, if required, after every serious incident/accident involving the use of PPE, or if significant changes are introduced to procedures, mining and ventilation layouts, mining methods, plant or equipment and material. |