MHSC ANNUAL REPORT 2020

MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY COUNCIL ▪ ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20

Name of the Objective (IP01): Review the state of health and safety at mines. Definition: Assess OHS trends, disasters, and review the status of milestones implementation.

Target for the Year: 100%

Actual: 75%

Variance: 25%

% of target achieved: 75%

Status: Not Achieved

Primary Measure: Percentage of achievement of initiatives

Initiative 1: Conduct quarterly reviews of health and safety performance (including the leading and lagging indicators). • In order to establish the OHS trends and major causes of injuries, fatalities, and occupational diseases, quarterly reviews and analysis of health and safety performance (including the leading and lagging) were conducted, with the main point of reference being the DMRE’s quarterly health and safety statistics. • The analysis informed the development of advice to outline suggested interventions to address how the identified problematic areas. The analysis indicated that there is still an increase in the number of occupational diseases like Silicosis, Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), Coal workers Pneumoconiosis, Occupational skin disease, and musculoskeletal disorders. • From a safety perspective, Falls of Ground (FoGs) remains the highest cause of fatalities followed by Trackless Mobile Machinery(TMM) and Rail Bound Equipment. Initiative 2: Provide quarterly Advisory Notes on relevant interventions to improve OHS in the mining industry. • Advisory notes were developed for submission to Council on the review of OHS performance in the mining industry. In response to the state of affairs in OHS performance and compliance in the SAMI, the MHSC has commissioned a number of initiatives to address the identified agencies as amongst others as mentioned below: ◊ A review of completed research work, particularly in the areas of the identified emerging diseases need to be conducted and promotional material from these be developed for dissemination in the SAMI. ◊ Emerging occupational diseases, such as musculoskeletal disorders and occupational skin diseases, need to be reviewed. ◊ The MHSC in partnership with mines will continue to collaborate during their health and safety days to raise awareness on the “silly season”, where people’s minds are not fully focused on work as people prepare for the long break. Initiative 3: Implement Summit Milestones • Reports were submitted to Council on a quarterly basis highlighting progress on the implementation of the 2014 OHS Summit milestones, progress on the implementation of initiatives from the 2016 Principals Pledged and the progress on the 2018 OHS Summit action plan. While these reports were submitted consistently as provided for in the annual performance plan, a number of opportunities for improvement in the implementation were identified. • During the piloting phase of the milestone reporting portal, areas of improvement were identified. Subsequently, a new service provider was sourced. MOHAC/ MITHAC raised concerns on the Occupational Hygiene (OH) and the Occupational Medicine (OM) reporting templates of the portal. The committees advised that the amended templates be piloted by 2 mining houses who have volunteered for the pilot, following the success of which the use of the templates for capturing will be rolled out across the country. Due to these developments, only the reporting of the milestones for the implementation of the pillars of the CTF prioritised for 100% implementation by December 2020 were captured. Reasons for Variance • The Milestones data could not be collected during the first and second quarter because the process to appoint the service provider was still underway. The MHSC had a contract with a service provider to maintain the reporting system and has since expired. • The initial bid to acquire a new service provider to take over the system from the previous service provider was non- responsive and the service provider was appointed during the second procurement process.

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