If you start a business that uses dynamite to mine for gold, and you work very hard to make it safe, are you still potentially liable for injuries caused by your business? Yes or No, and why?
Solution
Yes.
Mining health and safety is governed Mine Health and Safety Act. The base premise of the act is:
• To ensure owner responsibility for health and safety through creation of codes of practise, training, identifying potentially hazardous factors, investigating said factors, employing hygienists for the industry, and founding methods of medical attention and recording for the site.
• To safeguard the rights of employees to refuse or move away from areas which are unsafe or potentially unsafe.
• To create the Inspectorate of Mining Health and Safety.
• To establish the three-party Mine Health and Safety Council.
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1. If you start a business that uses dynamite to mine for gold, and you work very hard to make it
safe, are you still potentially liable for injuries caused by your business? Yes or No, and why?
Solution
Yes.
Mining health and safety is governed Mine Health and Safety Act. The base premise of the act is:
• To ensure owner responsibility for health and safety through creation of codes of practise,
training, identifying potentially hazardous factors, investigating said factors, employing
hygienists for the industry, and founding methods of medical attention and recording for the site.
• To safeguard the rights of employees to refuse or move away from areas which are unsafe or
potentially unsafe.
• To create the Inspectorate of Mining Health and Safety.
• To establish the three-party Mine Health and Safety Council.
