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PRODUCT TABLE OF CONTENT_5
CHAPTER 1: OBJECTS OF ACT
- Objects of Act
CHAPTER 2: HEALTH AND SAFETY AT MINES
- Employer to ensure safety
- Employer must appoint manager
- Employer may entrust functions to another person
- Employer to maintain healthy and safe mine environment
- Employer to ensure adequate supply of health and safety equipment
- Employer to staff mine with due regard to health and safety
- Employer must establish health and safety policy
- Codes of practice
- Employer to provide health and safety training
- Employer to assess and respond to risk
- Employer to conduct occupational hygiene measurements
- Employer to establish system of medical surveillance
- Record of hazardous work
- Record of medical surveillance
- Annual medical reports
- Exit certificates
- Costs of examination
- Employees’ right to information
- Employee may dispute finding of unfitness to perform work
- Manufacturer’s and supplier’s duty for health and safety
- Employees’ duties for health and safety
- Employees’ right to leave dangerous working place
- Employees not to pay for safety measures
CHAPTER 3: HEALTH AND SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES AND COMMITTEES
- Health and safety representatives and committees
- Negotiations and consultations before appointment of representatives
- Designation of working places
- Qualifications of representatives
- Election and appointment of representatives
- Rights and powers of representatives
- Duty to compensate and assist representatives
- Duty to inform representatives
- Negotiation and consultation on establishment of committees
- Establishment of health and safety committees
- Committee procedures
- Rights and powers of health and safety committee
- Duty to support committee
- Disclosure of information
- Disputes concerning disclosure of information
- Disputes concerning this Chapter
CHAPTER 4: TRIPARTITE INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 5: INSPECTORATE OF MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 6: MINISTERS POWERS
CHAPTER 7: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND OFFENCES
CHAPTER 8: GENERAL PROVISIONS
40 MINE SAFETY HAZARDS:
- Dust (Act Section 76, Regulation 9.2)
- Noise (Regulation 11.4)
- Radiation (Act Section 76)
- Thermal stress (heat and cold) (Regulation 9.2(2))
- Flammable gas (Regulation 23.4(g))
- Toxic gas (Regulation 23.4(c))
- Asphyxiant gas (Regulation 23.4(c))
- Explosions (Regulation 5.1)
- Fires (Regulation 5.1)
- Flooding (Regulation 14.4)
- Rock falls (Regulation 14.1)
- Rock bursts (Regulation 14.1)
- Seismic activity (Regulation 14.7)
- Subsidence (Regulation 23.4(b))
- Electrical hazards (Chapter 3)
- Mechanical hazards from machinery (Chapter 8)
- Fall hazards (Regulation 14.5)
- Hazardous chemicals (Regulation 9.2(4))
- Explosive materials (Chapter 4)
- Airborne pollutants (Regulation 9.2(2))
- Ergonomic hazards (implied in various sections)
- Confined spaces (implied in various sections)
- Moving equipment (Regulation 8.10)
- Conveyor belts (Regulation 8.9)
- Winding equipment hazards (Regulation 23.4(h))
- Hazards from pressure vessels (Regulation 23.4(m))
- Hazards from lifting equipment (Regulation 8.5)
- Drowning hazards (Regulation 14.5)
- Inundation hazards (Regulation 14.4)
- Hazards from self-propelled mobile equipment (Regulation 8.10)
- Hazards from trackless mobile machinery (Regulation 8.10)
- Hazards from underground rail transport (Regulation 8.2)
- Hazards from chairlifts (Regulation 8.12)
- Biological hazards (implied in occupational health sections)
- Hazards from inadequate ventilation (Regulation 9.1)
- Hazards from draw points, tipping points, and rock passes (Regulation 10.3)
- Hazards from scraper winch and mono-rope installations (Regulation 8.4)
- Hazards from refrigeration and air conditioning systems (Regulation 8.7)
- Hazards in hazardous locations (Regulation 8.10)
- Hazards from water storage and pumping systems (Regulation 10.2)
