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Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993)

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Explosives Regulations, 2024

Radio Frequency Device Guidelines

8. Risk Assessment

 

(1) Risk Assessment should cover the following aspects in the report—

 

• Description of the process, operations and activities, buildings, licensing, safety distances.
• Identification of safety critical equipment, materials (explosives) and explosive devices.
• Identification of risks (hazards) of the explosives and operational control devices.
• Determination of the immunity to RF for the various explosives, devices, and control equipment.
• Determination of the exclusion zones for the various explosives, devices, and control equipment.
• Severity (fatalities, injuries, damage) of any incident caused by RF from any of the intentional and unintentional transmitters (Qualitatively using a risk matrix or quantitatively with calculations).
• Likelihood of incidents caused by RF radiation (this will be based on the exclusion distance determined e.g. zero distance).
• Risk assessment results (see Table 5 below).
• Risk evaluation to assess the acceptability (see Table 5 below).
• Risk treatment (see Table 5 below).
• Conclusions and recommendations (see Table 5 below).
• Appendix containing the ‘Technical Construction File’ which contains all relevant information of the installation, process, products that were evaluated.

 

R5048 8 Table 5