Modern Quarrying Q2 2021

Harrismith Quarry has achieved Showplace Status for eight consecutive years.

AT THE QUARRY FACE

AFRIMAT’S HARRISMITH QUARRY SETS THE BAR HIGH Special recognition is given to South African quarry operations that achieve Showplace Status every year – 95% and more – in ASPASA’s annual ISHE Audit. Being able to maintain that feat every year is something special, given the stringent nature of the audit and the high health and safety standards that ASPASA member operations have to maintain. In line with Afrimat’s ‘consistently delivering’ mantra, its Harrismith Quarry has achieved the status for eight consecutive years. By Munesu Shoko. W hen talking about health and safety in general, it would be fair to cast the spotlight on South Africa, where the legacy from earlier attitudes to worker safety still resonates in the drive to continually improve safe mining and quarrying conditions. Moving into their fifth consecutive year without a fatality, members of surface mining industry association, ASPASA, are surely leading the way as far as health and safety at operations is concerned. Central to this feat is ASPASA’s meticulous health and safety regime, which ensures highest standards of compliance at member operations. Some 20 years ago,

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MODERN QUARRYING QUARTER 2 - 2021

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