1) No person may use, or permit any person to use, compressed air:
a) in such a manner that it might endanger the health or safety of any person; or
b) to clean the body of any person or clothes being worn by any person.
2) Where the risk assessment at the mine indicates a significant risk of a fire and/or explosion and/or toxic release, that could lead to an irrespirable atmosphere or an atmosphere immediately dangerous to life or health, the employer must provide an early warning system or systems at all working places.
3) The employer must ensure that polymer underground ventilation control devices or appliances, which have' the potential for electrical static discharge-
a) comply with the SABS standard specifications 1287: Part I and Part II; and
b) are of anti-static characteristics when used in working places where there is a risk of igniting gas, dust or vapour.
4) The employer must take reasonably practicable measures to ensure that no employee is exposed to any health hazard at, or emanating from, any working place where work has ceased, either temporarily or permanently.
1) The employer must ensure that the occupational exposure to health hazards of employees .is maintained below the limits set out in Schedule 22.9(2)(a) and (b).
2) The employer must establish and maintain a system of occupational hygiene measurements, as contemplated in section 12, of all working places where the following hazard limits prevail:
a) airborne pollutants
i) particulates >= 1/10 of the occupational exposure limit;
ii) gases and vapours >= 1/2 of the occupational exposure limit;
b) thermal stress
i) heat >25,0°C wet bulb and/or >32,0°C dry bulb and/or >32,0"C mean radiant temperature
ii) cold <10 °C equivalent chill temperature; and
c) noise - >= 82dBL AEq.8h
Reference is made to the following Guidelines issued by the Chief Inspector of Mines in terms of section
9(2) of this Act
· Guideline for the Compilation of a Mandatory Code of Practice for an Occupational Health Programme on Personal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants: Ref. No. DME 16/3/2/4-A1
· Guideline for the Compilation of a Mandatory Code of Practice for an Occupational Health Programme on Personal Exposure to Thermal Stress Ref. No. DME 16/3/2/4-A2
3) The competent person engaged by the employer in terms of section 12(1) must, as part of the compliance with section 12(2)(b), report to the employer on -
a) the occupational hygiene risk assessment, with specific reference to planning, design, implementation and management of occupational hygiene at the mine;
b) the occupational hygiene hazards that may cause illness or adverse health effects to persons, assess the results in terms of the implementation of control systems and the management thereof, and recommend remedial actions to the employer.
4) The employer must ensure that sufficient potable and palatable water, which comply with the requirements set out in Schedule 22.9(2)(c), is readily available to all employees and clearly identified as drinkable.
5) The employer must provide and maintain suitable and adequate:
a) change houses to enable employees who perform work involving hazardous substances to change into working clothes at the start of their shift and to wash themselves and change their clothes at the end of their shift;
b) facilities to enable employees who perform work involving hazardous substances to wash their hands and faces before eating any meals at work; and
c) readily available latrine facilities, within a reasonable distance from each working place.
6) No employee may remove clothes referred to in regulation 9:2(5)(a) from the mine unless such clothes have been decontaminated.
7) The employer must annually submit to the regional principal inspector of mines, on forms 21.9(2)(a); 21.9(2)(b); 21.9(2)(c) and 21.9(2)(d), prescribed in chapter 21, and within 30 days from the end of the relevant annual reporting period as indicated on each form, reports which contain quarterly information on the airborne pollutant, heat stress, cold stress and noise aspects of the system of occupational hygiene measurements, established and maintained in terms of regulation 9.2(2), covering the immediately preceding 12 months.
8) The employer must ensure that all respiratory protective equipment used at a mine, other than body-worn self-contained self rescuers, comply with the South African bureau of Standards Code of Practice, Homologation of Respiratory equipment SABS 0338.
9) The employer must ensure that the illumination at all working places is sufficient to enable employees, who have conformed with the requirements of the vision tests conducted in terms of the Guideline for the Minimum Standards of Fitness to Perform work at a Mine, to perform their work safely.