Risk Management
Occupational Health & Environmental Management
The occupational health, environmental and radiation status monitoring designed for the Steenkampskraal Project is founded on the regulations enshrined in the following Acts and regulations:
- Mine Health and Safety Act (Act No. 29 of 1996);
- Occupational Health and Safety Act (Act No.85 of 1993);
- National Nuclear Regulatory Act (Act No. 47 of 1999); and
- Air Quality Act (Act No. 39 of 2004).
To maintain compliance with the variety of occupational health regulations, various health stressors will be monitored concurrently, and these include monitoring of gamma radiation on personal radio frequency chip enabled gamma dosimeters, as well as other selected toxicant tests. All monitoring data will be centralised in a management programme to be endorsed by the NNR. In all the above instances, individual doses and exposures will be required and measuring of these will be a combination of personal and positional sampling.
Occupational health monitoring is mitigated through, inter-alia the following:
- Compilation and implementation of applicable management standards
- Compilation and implementation of applicable Mandatory Codes of Practice
- Compilation and implementation of applicable Standard Operating Procedures
Environmental risk is mitigated through, inter-alia the following;
- Compilation and implementation of the approved Environmental Management Plan
- Mitigation through the approved Water Use License
