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Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC) is a South African national public agency that was established in accordance with the amendment of Mine Health and Safety Act, 29 of 1996. [1] [2] [3] The agency has its subordinate operating and represented by state and employer, as well as labour members with supervision from the Chief Inspector of Mines. [4]
In January 2017, during a judgement on the case between Aquila Steel and six respondents, which include the Minister of Mineral Resource and the department management, the Guateng division of the High Court of South Africa stated that the DMR stood in the way of private investment into the mining industry in South Africa, and failed to resolve ...
The Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 is an International Labor Organization Convention adopted at the 82nd International Labor Conference (ILC). The convention (C176) was developed and adopted to better recognize the inherent hazards of the mining workplace and the necessity of addressing these hazards on a global scale.
The disaster came shortly before the conclusion of the Leon Commission, a major judicial inquiry into health and safety on South Africa's mines. [15] [16] The Vaal Reefs disaster and the publication of the Leon Commission report brought major changes to the mining industry, including the implementation of a new Mine Health and Safety Act.
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Third Amendment Act, 1996: 27: National Education Policy Act, 1996: 28: Communal Property Associations Act, 1996: 29: Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996: 30: Post Office Appropriation Act, 1996: 31: Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act, 1996: 32: Supervision of Financial Institutions ...
Despite declining production, South Africa's gold exports were valued at US$3.8 billion in 2005. [24] As of end-2018, South Africa had a potential 6000 tonnes of reserves. [25] In July 2018, the Mineral Council of South Africa announced that 75% of mines in South Africa were now unprofitable due to the declining gold reserves. [26]
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a mainly mining industry related trade union, an organisation of workers with common goals through organised labour, in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 as of 2014 [update] , it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
The main focus in occupational health is on three different objectives: (i) the maintenance and promotion of workers' health and working capacity; (ii) the improvement of working environment and work to become conducive to safety and health and (iii) development of work organizations and working cultures in a direction which supports health and ...