Abstract

Occupational health focuses on promotive and preventive and curative health. The occupational health practitioners have the responsibility to guide management and employees on the occupational legislative obligations aiming to safeguard legal compliance at the workplace. Additionally, it is the responsibility of the health professionals within the mining industry to provide primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies to improve the health and safety of workers. However, the prevalence of work-related diseases such as noise induced hearing loss, silicosis and the occurrence of accidents in the mining industry is an alarming factor. Systematic review method was adopted to identify and screen relevant citations. This book chapter aims to review and discuss existing literature on health and safety strategies to enhance safety compliance within the South African mining industry.

Highlights

  • Worldwide, the mining sector is classified as the most dangerous work and customarily ranks within the top 3 occupations for related diseases and fatal accidents [1–7]

  • This review aims to analyze the present state of compliance with the health and safety regulations/standards, among the South African Mining industry and to highlight the importance of the implementation of preventative strategies through the occupational health clinic

  • A triangulation study led by Kheni and Braimah; Mustapha, Aigbavboa, and Thwala conducted in Ghana looking at the institutional and lawful conditions identifying with health and safety management referred to helpless coordination of activities related to health and safety standards, absence and unwanted degree of consistency with significant H&S enactment as the serious issues [39, 40]

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Summary

Introduction

The mining sector is classified as the most dangerous work and customarily ranks within the top 3 occupations for related diseases and fatal accidents [1–7]. Safety rules are necessary to form a healthy and safe work atmosphere, but it’s of significant importance to explore the social relations within the employment context (organization), the individual factors (beliefs, attitudes, and behavior), and the cultural processes that contribute to non-compliance with health and safety standards within the mining trade [14]. Given these gaps, there is an obligation to identify the ways that may enhance compliance with health and safety standards. Within the context of this review, compliance shall refer to the proper practice of the staff and the organization following the health and safety standards within the mining industry [14]

Objectives
Systematic literature review method
Occupational health and safety compliance in mining
African countries mining health and safety compliance literature
Objectives of the act
Objective of the act
The role of health and safety representatives in ensuring compliance
Occupational health practioner role in health and safety standards compliance
10. Preventative strategies
10.1 Primary preventive strategies
10.2 Secondary prevention
10.3 Tertiary prevention
11. Conclusion
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