1) Every mine with 20 or more employees must have a health and safety representative for each shift at each designated working place at the mine.
(The process for designating working places is set out in section 27.)
2) Every mine with 100 or more employees must have one or more health and safety committees.
3) A health and safety representative or a member of a health and safety committee does not incur any civil liability only because of doing or failing to do something which a health and safety representative or a member of a health and safety committee may do or is required to do in terms of this Act.
(It is an offence to fail to do anything required by this Act. See section 91.)