REGULATION:- 104 -SAFETY MANAGEMENT PLAN
❖ According to CMR-2017:- ❖ RISK SCORE = LIKEHOOD X CONSEQUENCE.
104. Safety management plan.- (1) The owner, agent and manager of every mine ❖ RISK SCORE = PROBABILITY X EXPOSURE X CONSEQUENCE.
shall- ❖ LIKEHOOD = PROBABILITY X EXPOSURE.
(a) identify the hazards to health and safety of the persons employed at the mine
to which they may be exposed while at work; ➢ Consequence:- is the size of the loss or damage. In terms of health and
(b) assess the risks to health and safety to which employees may be exposed while safety, it is the degree of harm that could be caused to people exposed to
they are at work; the hazard, the potential severity of injuries or ill health and / or the number
(c) record the significant hazards identified and risks assessed; of people who could be potentially affected
(d) make those records available for inspection by the employees; and ➢ Dangerous occurrence :-a readily identifiable event with potential to cause
(e) follow an appropriate process for identification of the hazards and assessment an injury to persons at work.
of risks. RISK ASSESSMENT :-
HIGH RISK HAZARDS RISK >200 Immediate attention
(2) The owner, agent and manager of every mine, after consulting the safety MEDIUM RISK HAZARDS RISK > 20-200 Management Action
committee of the mine and Internal Safety Organisation, shall determine all
measures necessary to- LOW RISK HAZARDS RISK SCORE <= 200 Management in on
(a) eliminate any recorded risk; going manner.
(b) control the risk at source;
(c) minimise the risk; and ❖ Treatment Controls and Action Plans :-
(d) in so far as the risk remains, Examine the high priority risks. Consider the potential to reduce or eliminate the risk
(i) provide for personal protective equipment; and by using the hierarchy of [Link] assists establishing methods to reduce the
(ii) institute a program to monitor the risk to which employees may be exposed. risk. From experience, the effectiveness of each method is given as a percentage
after each of the control descriptions.
(3) Based on the identified hazards and risks, the owner, agent and manager of 1. Elimination: Remove step to eliminate the hazard completely ( 100% )
every mine shall prepare an auditable document called “Safety Management 2. Substitution: Replace with less hazardous material, substance or process
Plan”, that forms part of the overall management and includes organisational (75%)
structure, planning, activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and 3. Separation: Isolate hazard from person by guarding, space or time
resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining a separation (50%)
safety and health policy of a company. 4. Administration: Adjusting the time or conditions of risk exposures (30%)
5. Training: Improving skills making tasks less hazardous to persons involved
4) It shall be the duty of the owner, agent and manager to implement the (20%)
measures 6. Personal protective equipment: Used as the last resort, appropriately
Determined necessary and contained in the Safety Management Plan for achieving designed and properly fitted equipment where other controls are not
the objectives set out in sub-regulation (2) in the order in which the measures are practicable (5%).
listed in the said sub-regulation.
(5) The Safety Management Plan shall contain-
a) defined mine safety and health policy of the company;
b) a plan to implement the policy;
c) how the mine or mines intend to develop capabilities to achieve the policy;
d) principal hazard management plans;
e) standard operating procedures;
f) ways to measure, monitor and evaluate performance of the safety
management plan and to correct matters that do not conform with the
safety management plan;
g) a plan to regularly review and continually improve the safety management
plan;
h) a plan to review the safety management plan if significant changes occur;
and
i) details of involvement of mine workers in its development and application.
(6) The owner, agent and manager of every mine shall periodically review the
hazards identified and risks assessed, to determine whether further elimination,
control and minimisation of risk is possible and consult with the safety committee
on review.
(7) The owner, agent or manager of every mine shall submit a copy of the Safety
Management Plan to the Regional Inspector who may, at any time by an order in
writing, require such modifications in the plan as he may specify therein.
(8) The owner, agent and manager of every mine shall be responsible for effective
implementation of the Safety Management Plan.
❖ According to Circular :-
➢ Hazard:- Source of potential harm , injury and loss.
➢ Risk :- Combination of the likelihood of a specific unwanted event and the
potential consequences.
➢ Risk Assessment: Is a process that involves measurement of risk to
determine priorities and to enable identification of appropriate level of risk
treatment (use also to describe the overall process of risk management).
➢ Risk Control: Implementation of strategies to prevent or control hazards.
➢ Risk Rating: The category or level or risk assigned following risk
assessment (eg:-High, Medium, Low etc.)
➢ Risk Management: Overall description of the steps taken to manage risk,
by identifying hazards and implementing controls in the workplace
➢ Risk Assessment Process : Risk assessment is to be performed on a regular
basis. The goal for each risk assessment session is to identify hazards,
determine risk ratings and controls, and to review the implementation of
risk controls from previous risk assessment sessions.
➢ Likelihood :- is the chance that the hazard might occur.