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

Guideline for a Mandatory Code of Practice

Occupational Health Programme on Thermal Stress

Part A. The Guideline

3. The Objectives of the Guideline

 

3.1 The objective of this guideline is to enable the employer of every mine to compile a COP, which, if properly implemented and complied with, would protect and improve the health of employees at the mine through monitoring and by reducing their exposure to thermal stress. It provides guidance of a general nature on the required format and content for the COP and it details the sufficient technical background to enable the drafting committee at the mine to prepare a comprehensive and practical COP for their mine.

 

3.2 It sets out the two components of an occupational health programme, namely:

 

3.2.1 Occupational hygiene; and
3.2.2 Occupational medicine.

 

3.3 Where an employer is required in terms of regulation 9.2(2) of the MHSA or in terms of risk assessment, to establish and maintain a system of occupational hygiene measurements in respect of thermal stress, this guideline should assist the employer in doing so.