Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)RegulationsMine Health and Safety RegulationsChapter 13 : Outlets, Ladderways and Travelling Ways |
13.1 Outlets
| (1) | The employer must prevent employees from being trapped in any underground excavation by providing whenever practicable, from every underground working place, two exits, each of which is connected to separate means of egress to the surface. |
| (2) | Where it is not practicable to provide two exits as contemplated in regulation 13.1(1) above, the employer must implement other reasonably practicable measures, determined by the mine’s risk assessment, to prevent employees from being trapped in any underground excavation. |
[Regulation 13.1(2) amended by Notice No. R. 90 dated 1 February 2008]
| (3) | Except in the case of emergency no person may enter or leave the underground workings of a mine except by means of ingress or egress especially provided or set apart for that purpose by the employer unless such person is authorised to do so by the employer. |
| (4) | The following regulations promulgated under the Minerals Act, 1991 (Act No. 50 of 1991) in force in terms of item 4 of Schedule 4 of the Act, are hereby repealed— |
Chapter 6 |
Chapter 16 |
Chapter 19 |
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[Regulation 13.1(4) deleted and substituted by Notice No. R. 90 dated 1 February 2008]
[Chapter 13 inserted by Notice No. R. 1224 dated 15 December 2005]