National Day of Safety & Health in Mining 2018

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Recent on-site events

 

2018 HEALTH AND SAFETY SUMMIT

Media release   Speech   Presentations

Tuberculosis in the South African Mining Industry
Safety in Mining  
Safety in Mining: Performance at a glance  
 

Launch of the National Day of Safety & Health in Mining

Today, the Minerals Council launched the National Day of Safety & Health in Mining 2018 campaign as part of its recommitment to the shared goal of Zero Harm and ensuring that all employees can go to work in the knowledge that they will return home, every day, unharmed.

Media release

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Roger Baxter   Andile Sangqu   Chris Griffith

Interviews with industry leaders

Ensuring that all employees return home safely and unharmed at the end of every day is our industry’s top priority.

In these videos, our leaders in the industry share their messages about safety and health.

 

What this day is about

For the last 20 years, the mining industry has worked hard at improving its safety performance. We saw an 88% improvement in fatality rates in the 20 years up until 2017. That this improving trend has been reversing since last year is a matter of deep concern to the industry and to the Minerals Council South Africa.

The National Day of Safety & Health in Mining 2018, launched on 17 August 2018, will be followed – over a period of one month – by a Day of Safety & Health in Mining at all member companies. This initiative demonstrates the industry’s recommitment to the goal of Zero Harm. Together with employees and unions, and with the support and guidance of the DMR, we can reverse this trend, and achieve Zero Harm.

News and media coverage