MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY COUNCIL MINE WORKER RETURNING HOME UNHARMED EVERY DAY, “EVERY STRIVING FOR ZERO HARM” PREAMBLE The Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC), as per the mandate of the Mine Health and Safety Act of 1996 as amended, must at least every two years arrange and coordinate a tripartite summit to review the state of health and safety. This summit is the 10th anniversary of the 2003 Occupational Health and Safety milestones and builds on the significant progress made by the Tripartite Stakeholders in striving for the target of zero harm to ensure that every mine worker returns home unharmed every day. In support of the National Development Plan of South Africa the following commitments and action plans have been developed that will focus on: Occupational Safety; Occupational Health; HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB); and Culture Transformation. The intent of the milestones that follow is to further accelerate our journey to zero harm. The implementation of risk-specific activities will help achieve the Occupational Health and Safety Milestones in that will strive for ZERO HARM, ensuring that every mine worker returns home unharmed every day. The Culture Transformation Framework (CTF) and the Centre of Excellence (CoE) MHSC’s will be pivotal drivers in accelerating our journey to zero harm. Considering that the Centre of Excellence is a driver towards ZERO HARM, the CoE will strive under take focussed and directed activities that will seek to: Eliminate exposure to high occupational health and safety risk. Improve asset utilisation. Facilitate the up-skilling of mine employees. Supporting the socio-economic opportunities through mining. It has become increasingly important to also focus on organisational human factors that have an impact on the outcome of health and safety performance, with health and safety culture recognised as having a definitive impact on the outcome of the incident. The collaborative efforts through the spirit of tripartism will strive to ensure that through a learning and participative culture where everybody is treated with care, dignity and respect. This spirit of tripartism should prevail in all initiatives. VISION We the Principals representing the State, Organised Labour and (“the stakeholders”) assembled on the 19th of November 2014 agree to individual and collective efforts, to strive for the target of zero harm ensuring that every mine worker shall return home unharmed everyday.
MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY COUNCIL “EVERY MINE WORKER RETURNING HOME UNHARMED EVERY DAY, STRIVING FOR ZERO HARM” PREAMBLE The Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC), as per the mandate of the Mine Health and Safety Act of 1996 as amended, must at least every two years arrange and coordinate a tripartite summit to review the state of health and safety. This summit is the 10th anniversary of the 2003 Occupational Health and Safety milestones and builds on the significant progress made by the Tripartite Stakeholders in striving for the target of zero harm to ensure that every mine worker returns home unharmed every day. In support of the National Development Plan of South Africa the following commitments and action plans have been developed that will focus on: Occupational Safety; Occupational Health; HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB); and Culture Transformation. The intent of the milestones that follow is to further accelerate our journey to zero harm. The implementation of risk-specific activities will help achieve the Occupational Health and Safety Milestones in that will strive for ZERO HARM, ensuring that every mine worker returns home unharmed every day. The MHSC’s Culture Transformation Framework (CTF) and the Centre of Excellence (CoE) will be pivotal drivers in accelerating our journey to zero harm. Considering that the Centre of Excellence is a driver towards ZERO HARM, the CoE will strive under take focussed and directed activities that will seek to: Eliminate exposure to high occupational health and safety risk. Improve asset utilisation. Facilitate the up-skilling of mine employees. Supporting the socio-economic opportunities through mining. It has become increasingly important to also focus on organisational human factors that have an impact on the outcome of health and safety performance, with health and safety culture recognised as having a definitive impact on the outcome of the incident. The collaborative efforts through the spirit of tripartism will strive to ensure that through a learning and participative culture where everybody is treated with care, dignity and respect. This spirit of tripartism should prevail in all initiatives. VISION We the Principals representing the State, Organised Labour and (“the stakeholders”) assembled on the 19th of November 2014 agree to individual and collective efforts, to strive for the target of zero harm ensuring that every mine worker shall return home unharmed everyday.