Human factors

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7. Human factors

7.0.1.

(1) Stress should be laid at all times on the importance

of the human element in the prevention of explosions.

(2) Steps should be taken to ensure that all workers, super-

visory officials and management gain an understanding of the

different aspects of the mine explosion hazard and the preventive

methods employed, and seek to co-operate on the widest basis to

ensure the most effective application of these methods in the in-

terests of the safe operation of the mine.

7.0.2. Although the safety of a mine depends very largely

upon the extent to which the individuals in it—management and

workers alike—want it to be safe and are prepared to exert them-

selves to make it safe, the lead in this respect should be seen to

come from management.

7.0.3.

Everyone should take care for his own safety and that

of his own working place and should also have continually in mind

the safety of others; everyone should endeavour to ensure that

anything happening in the course of

his

work that might adversely

affect safety is put right.

7.0.4. The statutory requirements in relation to safety should

not be looked upon as a catalogue of imperatives and penalties,

but rather as a code of good practice which everyone willingly

accepts and is at pains to observe, a code every departure from

which will at once be challenged.

7.0.5.

Every effort should be made, through education and

training, including regular instruction in basic safety rules, to de-

velop and encourage in each individual the growth of a personal

feeling of responsibility for safety.

7.0.6. (1) Constant stress should be laid on the value of joint

action by management and workers.

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