Date of fatality
The date of fatality is the
date on which the death occurs and not the date of the accident from which the fatality resulted.
Fatality
A
fatality refers to the death of an employee (including a contractor's employee), which is the result of a mine accident that occurred not more than 12 months prior to the death, and which:
- Is ruled by the Chief Inspector of Mines as being due to a mining accident, and
- Is included in the DME's statistics.
Millionaire
A millionaire means a participating entity that has
one million or more consecutive fatality-free shifts to its credit.
Shift
A shift is
one working period worked by an employee, including contractors' employees, within the specified participating entity during a 24-hour period. The total of these shifts shall be as recorded by the DME from reports submitted by individual participating entities on
Form 1.
Participating entity
A participating entity consists of a registered mine, or a portion of a mine where:
- The boundary is defined by the manager; and
- Statistics relate to the fixed boundary.
Any change to the entity must be registered with the Inspectorate and shifts credited will revert to zero.
Production shift
A production shift means a
full shift during which the participating entity was operational. When more than one shift per day is worked, each separate production shift during the twenty-four hour period will be recorded.
Reportable accident
This is as defined by Chapter 23 of the Mine Health and Safety Act.
23.1 The employer must report to the Principal Inspector of Mines in the manner prescribed in this chapter any accident at the mine that results in:
- The death of any employee;
- An injury, to any employee, likely to be fatal;
- Unconsciousness, incapacitation from heatstroke or heat exhaustion, oxygen deficiency, the inhalation of fumes or poisonous gas, or electric shock or electric burn accidents of or by any employee and which is not reportable in terms of paragraph (d) below;
- An injury which either incapacitates the injured employee from performing that employee's normal or a similar occupation for a period totaling 14 days or more, or which causes the injured employee to suffer the loss of a joint, or a part of a joint, or sustain a permanent disability; or
- An injury, other than injuries referred to in paragraph (d), which incapacitates the injured employee from performing that employee's normal or a similar occupation on the next calendar day.
Serious injury
A serious injury is a
reportable accident as contemplated in regulation 23.1 (a), (b), (c) and, (d) i.e. injuries resulting in death, permanent disability, 14 days plus off work, unconsciousness or incapacitation.
Lost-time injury
Lost-time injury is an injury, other than injuries referred to in paragraph (e) above, which incapacitates the injured person from performing his normal or similar occupation for a period totalling one calendar day or more but less than 14 days.
A lost-time injury is sum total of disabilities, serious injuries and lost time injuries for the purposes of this award scheme.
