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Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)

Chapter 3 : Health and Safety Representatives and Committees

31. Duty to compensate and assist representatives

 

(1) The employer must pay every full-time health and safety representative appropriate remuneration at least equal to the remuneration the representative earned immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative.

 

(2) The employer must provide reasonable time and facilities for employees to meet monthly with their health and safety representatives in order to consider—
(a) health and safety in their working places; and
(b) reports by the representatives on the performance of their functions.

 

(3) The employer must provide health and safety representatives with—
(a) the facilities and assistance reasonably necessary to perform their functions;
(b) training that is reasonably required to enable them to perform their functions; and
(c) time off from work, without loss of remuneration, to attend any training course that is agreed or prescribed.

 

(4) Unless otherwise agreed, the assistance referred to in subsection (3)(a) does not include any costs associated with advisers or independent experts contemplated in either section 30(1)(h) or section 36(1)(g).

 

(5) On the completion of a term of office as a full-time health and safety representative, the health and safety representative is entitled to—
(a) employment in the same position held immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative; or
(b) employment in a position that is at least as favourable as the position held immediately before being appointed a full-time health and safety representative.