The duties of Safety Officer is spelled out in the Draft Regulation in detail as below:
47. Duties of safety officer.- (1) The duties of the safety officer shall be-
(a) to visit surface and underground parts of the mine with a view to meet the workers on the spot, to talk to them on matters of safety and invite suggestions thereon;
(b) to take charge of the newly recruited staff and show them around the mine pointing out the safe and unsafe acts during the course of their work in the mine;
(c) to maintain detailed statistics of all types of accidents, dangerous occurrences and incidents in the mine including minor accidents;
(d) to investigate and to analyse the same with a view to pinpoint the nature and common causes of accidents;
(e) to study and apprise the manager of all possible sources of danger such as inundation, fire, dust and others;
(f) to hold safety classes and deliver safety talks and lectures to the members of the supervisory staff;
(g) to organise safety weeks and other safety education and propaganda in mine;
(h) to ensure that all concerned mine employees are fully conversant with various standing orders, codes of practices (such as those relating to stoppage of mine mechanical ventilators and to the occurrence of a fire or other emergency in the mine) and support plan;
(i) to provide assistance in the formulation of programme for training at the mine level; including vocational training, training in gas testing, and training in First Aid;
(j) to report to the manger any information in the mine of Act, the rules or the regulations made thereunder;
(k) to promote safety practices generally and to lend active support to all measures intended for furthering the cause of safety in the mine and ensure reasonable compliance to the recommendations of the Safety Committee and Workman's Inspectors ; and
(l) to assist the manager in any other matter relating to safety in the mine.
(2) The safety officer shall ensure that an appropriate emergency plan as required under these regulations is put in place and the requirements of the same are strictly implemented.
(3) Except in an emergency, no duties other than those specified above shall be assigned to the safety officer.
(4) The safety officer shall maintain in a bound paged book a detailed record of the work performed by him every day.
Clarence D'Souza
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