Definitions

Question 1

Banksman

Answer 1

Means a person stationed at the shaft top, who shall be a holder of an Onsetters Certificate, appointed by the manager to supervise the loading and unloading of persons on a cage, skip or other means of conveyance and to give the necessary signals.

Question 2

Gauge pressure

Answer 2

Means the pressure in excess of that of the atmosphere

Question 3

Materials

Answer 3

Means whatever may be conveyed by means of a winding plant, elevator, or self propelled mobile machine excluding persons, mineral and explosives

Question 4

Winze

Answer 4

Means any tunnel with inclination below the horizontal in the direction of working of more than 5 degrees and not included in the definition of “shaft”

Question 5

Moveable electrical apparatus

Answer 5

Means an electrical apparatus excluding self propelled mobile machines and portable electrical apparatus, which is not installed on permanent foundations and is intended to be moved from place to place

Question 6

Processing

Answer 6

means the recovering, extracting, concentrating, refining calcining, classifying, crushing, milling, screening, washing, reducing, smelting or gasification of any mineral, and “process” has a similar meaning;

Question 7

Occupational hygiene

Answer 7

means the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of conditions at the mine, that may cause illness or adverse health effects to persons,

Question 8

Reasonably practicable

Answer 8

means practicable having regard to-
(a)the severity and scope of the hazard or risk concerned;

(b)the state of knowledge reasonably available concerning the hazard or risk and of any means of removing or mitigating the hazard or risk

(c)the availability and suitability of means to remove or mitigate that hazard or risk, and

(d)the costs and the benefits of removing or mitigating that hazard
or risk

Question 9

Principal Inspector of Mines

Answer 9

Means the officer appointed by the Chief Inspector of Mines to be in charge of health and safety in any region established in terms of section 47(2)

Question 10

Chief Inspector of Mines

Answer 10

Means the officer appointed in terms of section 48(1) and includes any officer acting in that capacity

Question 11

Council

Answer 11

means the Mine Health and Safety Council established in terms of section 41(1)

Question 12

Chief Executive Officer

Answer 12

Means the person who is responsible for the overall management and control of the business of the employer

Question 13

Health

Answer 13

Refers to occupational health at mines

Question 14

Health and safety equipment

Answer 14

Means an article or part of an article that is manufactured , provided or installed in the interest of the health or safety of any person

Question 15

medical surveillance’

Answer 15

means a planned programme of periodic examination, which may include clinical examinations, biological monitoring or medical tests, of employees by an occupational health practitioner or by an occupational medical practitioner contemplated in section 13;

Question 16

Mine

Answer 16

(a) used as a noun

(i). any borehole, or excavation, in any tailings or in the earth, including the portion of the earth that is under the sea or other water, made for the purpose of searching for or winning a mineral, whether it is being worked or not; or

(ii). any other place where a mineral deposit is being exploited, including the mining area and all buildings, structures, machinery, mine dumps, access roads or objects situated on or in that area that are used or intended to be used in connection with searching, winning, exploiting or processing of a mineral, or for health and safety purposes. But, if two or more excavations, boreholes or places are being worked in conjunction with one another, they are deemed to comprise one mine, unless the Chief Inspector of Mines notifies their employer in writing that those excavations, boreholes or places comprise two or more mines; or

(iii). a works; and

(b) used as a verb, the making of any excavation or borehole referred to in paragraph (a) (i), or the exploitation of any mineral deposit in any other manner, for the purpose of winning a mineral, including prospecting in connection with the winning of a mineral;

Question 17

Works

Answer 17

means any place, excluding a mine, where any person carries out-

(a) the transmitting and distributing to another consumer of any form of power from a mine, by the employer thereof, to the terminal point of bulk supply or where the supply is not in bulk, to the power supply meter on any such other consumer’s premises; or

(b) training at any central rescue station; or

(c) the making, repairing, re-opening or closing of any subterranean tunnel; or

(d) any operations necessary or in connection with any of the operations listed in this paragraph.