MINING INDUSTRY: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES GAZETTED

MINING INDUSTRY: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES GAZETTED

• 22 July 2025
• Health & Safety
• SA Legal Academy

A recently published set of guidelines on the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases and mental health disorders on mines requires industry employers to:

• review prevailing mine health and safety policies
• ensure that they include a programme meeting all minimum requirements and good practices prescribed
• prepare an implementation plan, and
• ‘institute measures for auditing, monitoring and ensuring compliance’.

Issued under the 1996 Mine Health & Safety Act, the guidelines apply to:

• the South African mining industry
• mining communities
• ‘all mine workers, irrespective of employment categories’, and
• contract workers.

Among other things, they cover:

• risk assessment
• education and awareness (focusing on ‘healthy living and positive social behaviour’)
• environmental controls (including ‘occupational hygiene hazards’), and
• the primordial, primary, secondary and tertiary interventions likely to be required.

Please click the link below for more information:

• guidelines

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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