No person may use, or permit any person to use, compressed air:

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.

The employer must ensure that polymer underground ventilation control devices or appliances, which have the potential for electrical static discharge—

[Regulation 9.1(3) commences on 1 September 2002 - See Notice No. R. 904, GG 23583, dated 2 July 2002]

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.

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).

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:

(c)        noise

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[Reference is made to the following Guidelines issued by the Chief Inspector of Mines in terms of section 9(2) of this Act

(3)        Report to Employer

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—

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.

The employer must provide and maintain suitable and adequate:

No employee may remove clothes referred to in regulation 9.2(5)(a) from the mine unless such clothes have been decontaminated.

The employer must 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), 21.9.2(e) and 21.9.2(f), prescribed in chapter 21, and within 60 days from the end of the relevant reporting period as indicated on each form, reports which contain information on the airborne pollutant, thermal stress and noise aspects of the system of occupational hygiene measurements, established and maintained in terms of regulation 9.2(2).

[Regulation 9.2(7) amended by Notice No. R. 1226 dated 15 December 2005]

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.

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.

Repeal

The following regulations made under the Minerals Act, 1991 (Act 50 of 1991) in force in terms of Schedule 4 of the Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act 29 of 1996) are hereby repealed.

[Chapter 9 inserted by Notice No. R904 dated 2 July 2002]