AFRICAN MINING INDABA INTERVIEW: NUM General Secretary calls on mining companies to adopt radar technology as a safety measure

  • 📰 dailymaverick
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 25 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 84%

Canada News News

Canada Canada Latest News,Canada Canada Headlines

Speaking to Business Maverick on the sidelines of the Investing in African Mining Indaba, the General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, William Mabapa, called on the mining sector to build on its improving safety record by adopting radar ...

Mabapa, acknowledged that significant progress has been made on the health and safety fronts in South Africa’s mining industry, which had a record low of 49 accidental deaths in a calendar year in 2022. This was followed by ay, the first calendar month in more than a century in which no South African miner lost their life on the job.

Mabapa would not be drawn on the precise scale of NUM’s expected demands, but said the union’s members would be unlikely to submit any that fell short of the inflation rate, which was running at 7.2% in December and seen as moderating this year. He stated that he expected relations with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union to remain cordial. For almost a decade the rivalry between the two unions was a major source of violent unrest and instability in the mining sector.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

There are also other technologies available bsides Radar.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 3. in CA

Canada Canada Latest News, Canada Canada Headlines