by Eben van Zyl | Oct 24, 2024 | Health and Safety, Mining, News
1. What are some of the key health and safety related challenges currently facing the South African mining industry? Competency of employees remains a key issue plaguing the mining industry. There have been a number of instances where fraudulent blasting certificates...
by Warren Beech | Oct 22, 2024 | Health and Safety, Mining, News
On 14 October 2024, the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (Minister) issued a notice (Notice) of intention to introduce the Mine Health and Safety Amendment Bill, 2024 (Bill) in the National Assembly. The Notice indicates that the Minister intends to do so...
by Warren Beech | Aug 27, 2024 | Employment, Health and Safety, Mining, News
In a Top Tip Tuesday published earlier today, our team member Mr. Vusumuzi Ndhlovu explored the circumstances under which the normal remedy for an unfair dismissal, namely reinstatement, would not be appropriate, within the context of the provisions of Section...
by Vusi Ndhlovu | Aug 27, 2024 | Employment, Health and Safety, News
The remedy for a substantively unfair dismissal is typically reinstatement. However, there are situations where reinstatement is unsuitable, and one of the exceptions to reinstatement in Section 193(2) of the Labour Relations Act No 66 of 1995 (LRA) must...
by Warren Beech | Aug 13, 2024 | Health and Safety, Mining
While many South Africans living on or close to South Africa’s underground mining operations may have felt tremors from underground mining at some stage, the most potentially affected persons are those in close proximity to South Africa’s open pit (open cast) mining...
by Warren Beech | Jun 18, 2024 | Health and Safety
Sometimes the simplest things can result in major improvements to health and safety in the workplace. Adopting a “back to basics” approach has, in our experience, produced significant improvements, and in this Top Tip Tuesday we set out some key learnings in the...
