Mine Health and Safety Council

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• Mine Health and Safety Council
• Presentation of the Annual Report

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STATEMENT
The Mine Health and Safety Council is committed
to supporting, promoting and investigating
efforts to eliminate injury and occupational
disease in the mining sector
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CONTENTS

• OVERVIEW
• STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
• HIGHLIGHTS
• CHALLENGES
• PERFORMANCE REPORT
• OHS PERFORMANCE
• RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
• LEGISLATIVE OVERVIEW
• PROMOTION OF HEALTH SAFETY
• FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
• AGS REPORT
• COUNCIL REPORT
• CORRECTIVE ACTION

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Vision
A regulatory framework and climate conducive to
safe and healthy working conditions for
mineworkers and communities affected by mining.
Mission
Facilitate sustained improvement of occupational
health and safety at mines through focused
research, development of policy advice and
effective legislation, and the provision of
guidance to achieve best practice and a pervasive
culture of health and safety.
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MINE HEALTH SAFETY COUNCIL

• The Mine Health and Safety Council was
  established in July 1997 on a tripartite basis
• COMPOSITION
• Tripartite, 5 government, labour and employer
  representatives
• MANDATE OF THE MHSC
• Advise Minister on occupational health and
  safety
• Review, develop and recommend legislation to
  the Minister
• Promote health and safety in the mining sector
• Advise on health and safety research
• Liaise with other bodies concerned with health
  and safety issues.

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Mine Health and Safety Council
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OVERVIEW

• STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
• HIGHLIGHTS
• CHALLENGES
• FINANCES

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Strategic Overview
The MHSCs Operational Plan translates its
Strategic Plan into an implementation programme
to achieve agreed goals, targets and milestones.
Seven strategic goals were delineated Goal
A Give advice on improving the reliability,
accessibility and usefulness of OHS DATA AND
STATISTICS. Goal B Review REGULATORY MECHANISMS
and policies Goal C Promote a PREVENTATIVE
HEALTH AND SAFETY CULTURE Goal D Facilitate
the formulation and management of RESEARCH
PROGRAMMES Goal E FOCUS ON COMMITMENT RELATED
ISSUES Goal F Recommend POLICIES to encourage
COMPLIANCE and increase CAPACITY Goal
G Ensures MHSC operation within GOVERNANCE AND
POLICY FRAMEWORK
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Highlights and Key Issues

• Occupational Safety
• Decrease in fatalities by 17 from 270 in 2003
  to 246 in 2004
• Decrease in serious injuries by 7 from 4 301 in
  2003 to 4 254 in 2004
• Considerable effort on the part of stakeholders,
  but improvements still too slow and new
  challenges emerging
• Occupational Health
• The prevalence of silicosis unchanged for many
  decades (gold, coal)
• Tuberculosis a major challenge and increasing
• Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) a significant
  problem
• Visible application of engineering solutions
• Ongoing efforts to address HIV AIDS epidemic
  and related issues

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HIGHLIGHTS and ISSUES (cont)

• Policy Regulatory and Performance
• Guideline for Mandatory Codes of Practice for
  Dealing with Slope Stability-related Accidents on
  Surface Mines approved
• New Regulations relating to Survey, Mapping and
  Mine Plans the Protection of the Surface and
  Workings and Underground Railbound Transport.
• Occupational Health and Safety Research
• Research programme cost up 6, R33,7m in 2004 to
  R35 m in 2005
• Primary focus were in relation to the 2003
  Summit targets
• R25m silicosis research project conceptualized,
  commenced in 2005
• R20m research project on preventing rockbursts
  commenced

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CURRENT CHALLENGES

• FORMALLY assess appropriateness of current
  approach to drafting legislation
• Achievement of OHS industry targets
• APPROPRIATE databases for health statistics
• Mine disasters still occurs and
• Disasters in the period
• Northam Zondereinde Platinum Mine 9 miners died
• Hernic Ferrochrome Maroelabult Mine 7 miners
  died
• Harmony Free State Operations No. 2 Shaft 4
  miners died
• New challenges at existing mines i.e water,
  seismicity
• Transferring research outcome through appropriate
  mechanisms

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Performance
Strategic Goal A Advising on improvements in the
reliability, accessibility and usefulness of OHS
data and statistics.

• The Problem
• OHS Databases on different systems / programmes,
  underlying data imported from economic databases
• Accuracy of data not easily assured
• Meaningful occupational health data not available

• MHSC Interventions
• MHSC Project 04 09 07 Recommendations for
  improvements in the reliability, accessibility
  and usefulness of OHS data and statistics, which
  has commenced in April 2005.
• MHSC concluded project SIM 03 09 02 entitled
  Web-based mining industry data base for
  audiograms to the industry.

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Performance
Strategic Goal B Review regulatory mechanisms
and policies on the promotion of occupational
health and safety

• This task includes
• Refining Council policies regarding regulations
• Completing work on reviewing and proposing
  changes to OHS legislation and
• Interacting with other statutory bodies
  concerning matters relating to OHS.

• MHSC Interventions
• Project approved to asses appropriateness of
  outcomes based legislation
• New regulations were passed 1 COP, 3
  Regulations.
• Pending regulations approved by MHSC
• Outlets, to regulate outlets
• Lifting Equipment
• Scraper winches and mono-rope winches
• Explosives, to regulate the usage of
  explosives at mines
• Mechanisms in place for interaction with MQA

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Performance
Strategic Goal C To promote a preventative
safety and health culture in the mining sector
Communication and Promotion 3000 CDs 6000 MHSC
Newsletters 1 000 Handbooks on Occupational
Health. 3 000 Booklets on a variety of completed
projects Technology and Information Transfer 10
000 role players in the mining industry were
informed of MHSC activities, The MHSC has held
53 technical workshops, 9 launches and 5
research-levy roadshows. The MHSC was present at
8 conferences, seminars and Electra Mining
exhibition Safety Awards Safety Achievement flag
Ultra deep gold and platinum mines (gt2 000 m)
Target Mine Shallow to deep gold and platinum
mines (lt2 000 m)Sheba Gold Mine Coal mines
Dorstfontein Coal Mine Other mines Holcim Cement
Ulco One Million Fatality Free Shifts Conferred
on 31 Mines Thousand Fatality Free Production
Shifts Conferred on 45 mines

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Performance
Strategic Goal D Research Programme
2004 -2005 Research budget R35,8 m 54 safety
46 health 19 new projects were advertised
44 proposals received Preference given to
national institutions to support capacity
building Longer term programmes initiated 56
projects pursued in 2004/2005 8 bursaries for
post graduate studies emphasis on HDI candidates
Research program aligned to Milestones and
Targets of 2003 Summit and Strategic Plan
Concerns of the Leon commission are still
relevant

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Performance
Strategic Goal D Research Programme
Safety Research Long tendon support in
collieries Safety detaching hook Machine
mounted active explosive detection and
suppression Seismic location and source area of
seismic events Face area support for rockfall
and rockburst conditions Occupational Health
Research Silicosis Biomarkers early detection
of silicosis TB management programme case
finding and surveillance X-ray reading skills
arriving at correct diagnosis New methods of
NIHL screening and diagnosis objective
evaluation of hearing state Ergonomics
muscular skeletal ailments of machine workers
Prevalence of alcohol and substance use usage,
attitude employee assistance programs Handbook
for Occupational Hygiene Measurements
measurement of dust, heat, noise and light

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Performance
Strategic Goal E To monitor and maintain a focus
on specific prevention issues that stakeholders
have committed themselves to addressing. Issues
formulated from MHSC Summit 2003 Promoting a
reduction in occupational accidents. Promoting
the elimination of silicosis. Promoting the
reduction of noise-induced hearing loss. MHSC
Interventions Regulatory interventions
Developing remaining COPs (on falls of ground
at surface mines and massive mines) Monitoring
and reviewing safety performance and the
implementation of interventions Research
Interventions Reduction of fatalities and serious
injuries Survey needs of small-scale mines and
integrating small-scale mining needs into
legislative programme. Project SIM 04 09 08
Pilot study to determine the extent to which
illegal mining operations effect OHS has
commenced in 2005. A project to address
rockbursts (SIM 05 03 02 Managing Rockburst
Risk) has commenced

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Reduction of fatalities and serious
injuries(MHSC Interventions)
Performance Overview
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Performance
Strategic Goal E To monitor and maintain a focus
on specific prevention issues that stakeholders
have committed themselves to addressing MHSC
Interventions Research Interventions
(Continued) Elimination of Silicosis
Comprehensive research programme, on the
Elimination of Silicosis R26m over 5 yrs, The
programme has 3 tracks Track A, will address
improved methods of controlling dust at source
Track B, will formulate a risk assessment to
identify the priority dust sources and the
applicable control technologies assess
filtration efficiency and compile
internationally-accepted best practice
procedures and manuals, for dust control. Track
C, will develop targeted silicosis promotion
strategies and material. Elimination of
NIHL Health 806 Noise and Vibration and SIM
030902 Hearing database should facilitate the
implementation of hearing conservation
programmes A Guideline for a Mandatory COP for an
Occupational Health Programme on Noise has been
developed and implemented in March 2004.

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Elimination of Silicosis
Performance Overview
Elimination of NIHL
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Performance
Strategic Goal F Recommendations on policies
that create compliance and increases and retains
the capacity and competencies
Goal aligned with National OHS priorities viz
prevention, culture, governance and compliance
Prevention MHSI led in implementing this goal, by
developing enforcement guidelines, programmes for
assessing OHS risks (based on legislation) MHSC
complements MHSI monitoring and assessment
programme
Culture Research currently underway focused on
behavioural interventions Governance During this
review period, policy issues relating to
transparency, accountability and sound management
have been addressed. Compliance During January
2005, the Inspectorate has developed and
published a booklet entitled Guideline for the
Enforcement of the Mine Health and Safety Act.

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Performance
Goal G Council and its institutions operate
within the GOVERNANCE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK

• The following pertinent policy and governance
  issues have been addressed during the 2004/5
  period
• Policies, procedures implemented to ensure
  compliance
• Fourth Biennial Summit in October 2005, focus on
  trends and progress against milestones
• MHSC monitoring developments in national
  initiative to establish national OHS policies and
  institutions
• During the latter part of 2005, the MHSC to
  establish mechanisms to facilitate sharing of
  best practices

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Report of Auditor General

• QUALIFICATION
• Audit qualified by Auditor General due to scope
  limitations related to VAT liability.
• EMPHASIS OF MATTER
• The AG drew attention to the the following
  material matters
• Shortcomings in the application of Treasury
  regulation 31
• Database for calculation of the rate at which
  levies are charged
• Ownership of levies received for Mine Health and
  Safety

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Council Financial Report

• OPERATING RESULTS
• Council posted a surplus of R12.7m (2004 R6.7m)
• Surplus comprised
• R12.7m in the research account which is
  committed to research contracts (2004
  R5.9m)
• Break even in the administration account.(2004
  Surplus R0.8m)
• REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
• Research Account
• Levies amounted to R37.6m in 2005 (2004 R33.7m)
• Research Expenditure amounted to R22.6m in 2005
  (2004 R24.2m)
• Contribution to administration R4.9m (2004R2.2m)

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Council Financial Report

• REVIEW OF OPERATIONS (Cont)
• Administration Account
• State funding amounted to R3.7m ( 2004 R6.9m)
• Expenditure amounted to R3.7m (2004 R6.2m)
• Admisrative Fine Fund
• Fines received amounted to R0.2m (2004 0m)
• Expenditure amounted to R0.2m (2004 R0m)
• CONTROL SYSTEMS RECORD KEEPING
• Income and receivables
• VAT Liability
• Debt Collection Agent
• Research Assets

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Corrective Actions 2004/5 Audit

• Qualification on Vat only
• Policies and procedures implemented
• Significant compliance to PFMA
• No material losses incurred
• Improved operational efficiency
• 70 of audit issues raised in the prior year
  resolved
• Ownership of levies resolved