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

Chapter 3 : Health and Safety Representatives and Committees

Purchase

(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.