Safety and Security risks areas for female employees.
- Conveyances
- Underground dark places
- Individual security searches
- Medical Cases
Conveyances
- Congestion and darkness inside conveyances could result in unwanted physical contact the perpetrator will not be singled out. At least one cap lamp should be kept alight inside any conveyance at all times.
- No horseplay is allowed.
Underground dark places
- The conditions underground are usually of such a nature that there is risk for female employees to be separated from their work team. Any isolation will mean to leave her vulnerable to sexual harassment.
- No female employee should be left to be alone underground except for when the employee makes a request to attend to ablution facilities, during which the co-worker must accompany the employee until she is safe inside the lockable facility
Individual Security Searches
- Individual searches should be done in separate private cubicles from males.
- Only a female security officer can conduct a search on a female employee.
- All searches will be done under surveillance.
- A male security officer will not be allowed to open/conduct a search to any bag and/ hand bag that belongs to a female employee.
Medical Cases
- In case of emergency, request the consent of the female employee before removing any clothing. The same will apply when applying pressure to a bleeding wound.
- If unconscious, clothing should be removed in the presence of a co-worker.