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Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996)

Chapter 3 : Health and Safety Representatives and Committees

28. Qualifications of representatives

 

(1) To qualify to serve as a health and safety representative referred to in section 25(1), an employee must—
(a) be employed in a full-time capacity in the designated working place; and
(b) be acquainted with conditions and activities at the designated working place.

[Stipulates that every mine with 20 or more employees must have a health and safety representative for each shift at each designated working place.]

 

(2) To qualify to serve as a full-time health and safety representative an employee must—
(a) be employed in full-time capacity at the mine;
(b) comply with any other qualifications which may be—
(i) agreed by a health and safety committee; or
(ii) prescribed.