Mining Weekly reports that the mining sector must strive to achieve zero harm by doing everything possible to prevent fatalities, injuries and the spread of diseases among workers at SA mines.  

This was the plea of Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) acting mines chief inspector Xolile Mbonambi, who spoke at the SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s 2016 MineSafe conference earlier this month.  He said South African mining industry stakeholders had to collectively adopt the fundamental stance that, if mines could not undertake mining safely, they should not mine at all until the necessary measures had been put in place to protect the lives of mineworkers.  He emphasised the DMR’s commitment to ensuring that the milestones that were agreed on by all industry stakeholders at the 2014 Mine Occupational Health and Safety Summit were achieved within the agreed timeline.

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