Minerals and Mining (Health, Safety and Technical Regulations) L.I. 2182
Regulation 512—(1) The manager of a mine or a holder of a small scale mining licence shall ensure that
(a) an employee of the mine does not undertake any work in the mine unless the fitness and health of that employee has been assessed as sufficient to enable that employee to carry out that work safely; and
(b) the fitness of each employee of the mine is assessed, on a regular basis, to determine whether the fitness and health of that employee is sufficient to enable that employee to continue to safely carry out work of the nature carried out by that employee.
(2) An assessment under subregulation (1) shall be undertaken by a medical practitioner or by another appropriate person qualified to undertake the assessment and the assessment shall have regard to the type of work to be undertaken by the employee and the level of fitness required to safely undertake that work.
(3) The manager of a mine or the holder of a small-scale mining licence shall bear the cost of each medical examination required under this regulation and shall not, directly or indirectly, seek to pass the cost of that medical examination to the affected employee.
(4) The manager of a mine or the holder of a small mining licence shall ensure that the medical record of each employee is maintained for a period of
(a) ten years from the date of the a particular medical examination;
(b) six years from the date the employee ceases to work at the mine; or
(c) until the closure of the mine, which ever occurs earlier.
(5) The manager of the mine or the holder of a small scale mining licence shall ensure that
(a) an employee of a mine is given a copy of that employee's medical record and the result of any medical examination carried out on the employee, and
(b) the result of any medical examination is explained to the employee who undertook the examination.
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36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra
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