EMPLOYEES CARE FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY
Every Employee at a Mine, while at that Mine, must:
- Take reasonable care to protect their own Health and Safety.
- Take reasonable care to protect the Health and Safety of other persons who may be affected by any act or omission of that employee;
- Use and take proper care of protective clothing and other Health and Safety facilities and Equipment provided for the protection, Health or Safety of that Employee and other Employees.
- Report promptly to their immediate Supervisor any situation which the Employee believes presents a risk to the Heath or Safety of that Employee or any other person, and with which the Employee cannot properly deal with.
- Co-operate with any person to permit compliance with the duties and responsibilities placed on that person in terms of the Act and
- Comply with prescribed Health and Safety Measures.
Employee’s right to leave/withdraw from a dangerous working place.
- It is the duty of all employee’s to report/complain any sub-standard – unsafe condition & behaviour which will endanger health & safety of any worker/s to his/her immediate Supervisor..
The Employee has the right to leave/withdraw from any working place whenever:
- Circumstances arise at that working place which, with reasonable justification, appear to that employee to pose a danger to the health and safety of that employee.
- The health and safety representative responsible for that working place directs that employee to leave that working place.
Leave/withdraw from a dangerous working place in accordance with the mine’s withdrawal procedure.
- When withdrawing from an unsafe work place, remove all employees to a safe area.
- Barricade the area off to prevent inadvertently entry into the dangerous working place
Employee’s right to leave/withdraw from a dangerous working place:
Action to be taken when there is a danger to the health or safety of employees.
- Whenever it appears that there is a danger to the health or safety of any employee, the immediate Supervisor must be notified, together with the Health and Safety Representative for the designated workplace.
Action to be taken by the Supervisor when there is a complaint regarding the safety of a working place
- The immediate Supervisor will notify the Health and Safety Representative and will personally, accompany the Health and Safety Representative for the designated working place.
- Inspect the affected area.
- Assess the danger, make that part of the working place safe.
- Any instruction given in the interest of health and safety to render the working place safe must be carried out.
- Such task must be carried out under direct supervision of the Supervisor responsible for that working place.
- Any work or action to resolve perceived danger must be commenced from a safe area.
- The suspect area will only be declared safe once the immediate superior, in consultation with the Health & Safety Representative has approved such area, and a person who is the holder of a blasting certificate agrees that the area is safe.
- Once the area is safe, the immediate Supervisor may instruct the Employees to resume work.
