Chapter 3 Health and Safety Representatives and Committees
28. Qualifications of representatives

 

 

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1)        To qualify to serve as a health and safety representative referred to in section 25(1), an employee must--

a)        be employed in a full-time capacity in the designated working place; and

b)        be acquainted with conditions and activities at the designated working place.

(Section 25(1) stipulates that every mine with 20 or more employees must have a health and safety representative for each shift at each designated working place.)

 

2)        To qualify to serve as a full-time health and safety representative an employee must --

a)        be employed in full-time capacity at the mine;

b)        comply with any other qualifications which may be--

i)          agreed by a health and safety committee; or

ii)         prescribed.