Abstract

Safety and health in mining is a position paper summarising key occupational safety and health risks in mining and their prevention. The paper is a joint effort by the members of the Scientific Committee on Mining Occupational Safety and Health (SC MinOSH) of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). The position paper will be published in three parts, in Occupational Health Southern Africa. The abbreviations and references used will be listed for each of the three parts. References are numbered consecutively across the three parts. The paper will also be published in its entirety on the ICOH website, as an output of SC MinOSH.