Training

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5. Training

5.1. The mine operator should ensure that no persons are employed in work of

any description at an opencast mine unless those persons have received the necessary

instruction and training so as to be able to do the work competently and safely. This

duty applies to all grades and classes of workers.

5.2. Individual records of all such training, and where necessary retraining,

should be maintained at the mine.

5.3. National laws or regulations should specify the broad principles of the type

of training or retraining required for all the various categories of employment in the

different types of opencast mines.

5.4. A training supervisor should be appointed by the manager to supervise all

training activities, to maintain records of trainees and to report on training matters as

required.

5.5. Where the resources of an opencast mine are insufficient to fulfil the

requirements of this section, the competent authority should arrange for two or more

opencast mines to hold a combined safety training scheme, or make such other

arrangements as are practicable in the interests of accident prevention.

5.6. Copies of the relevant safety regulations and procedures should be given to

each employee upon the commencement of and upon any change of employment.

5.7. All trainees should undergo specific training in the rules and procedures, and

should not be assigned to work duties until they have assimilated thoroughly all such

safe work practices.

5.8. Training programmes should be developed on a tripartite basis, including

consultation with government, management and labour, on an industry-wide basis as

well as at the workplace level.

5.9. Workers' representatives, members of workers' safety and health committees

or joint safety and health committees, or other workers' representatives, should be given

reasonable time during paid working hours to undertake appropriate training in

occupational safety and health.