Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993)RegulationsExplosives Regulations, 202411. Safety distances |
| (1) | An employer, self-employed person or user must— |
| (a) | apply the safety distances for the respective categories of explosives as stipulated in Annexure 1 to these regulations; |
| (b) | where less than five kilograms of explosives is used, apply to the chief inspector of occupational health and safety for a determination of a safety distance that the employer must enforce; |
| (c) | in the case of quantities of class 1.1 and class 1.5 explosives exceeding five kilograms, ensure that the structures or areas where they are manufactured, stored, tested or handled in any manner, are mounded: provided that where, with the permission of the chief inspector of occupational health and safety, mounds are dispensed with, the distances given in columns (1), (2) and (3) of Annexure 1 must be doubled. |
| (2) | An employer, self-employed person or user may reduce the distances in column (1) of Annexure 1 in respect of ground-covered magazines used in explosives workplace magazine areas, and the doors of which do not face each other— |
| (a) | between magazines next to each other: by half the distance; or |
| (b) | between magazines behind each other: by three-quarters of the distance. |