Compliance software for South African mining operations.
Mining is the one South African sector where the Occupational Health and Safety Act is not your primary instrument. Mines fall under the Mine Health and Safety Act, administered by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy rather than the Department of Employment and Labour — a different regulator, a different inspectorate, and a different set of statutory appointments and registers. Software built around the OHS Act alone will not carry a mine through an MHSA inspection.
Which regime applies
- Primary instrument
- Mine Health and Safety Act 29 of 1996
- Regulator
- Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE)
- Why it matters
- Mines are regulated separately from general industry. Where the OHS Act applies to surface operations and offices, the MHSA governs the mining operation itself, with its own appointment structure, inspectorate and reporting lines.
What this sector has to prove
Fall-of-ground and stope risk assessment
Fall of ground remains one of the most significant sources of serious injury in South African underground mining. Risk assessments have to be live documents tied to the working place, re-evaluated as the face advances — not annual paperwork. SHEQ24 links each stope inspection to its risk register entry, so the assessment reflects the working place as it actually is.
Statutory inspections and registers
Winder inspections, conveyor belt registers, underground equipment tracking and ventilation records all carry statutory inspection frequencies. SHEQ24 schedules each one, escalates overdue items, and produces the register in the form an inspector expects rather than as a spreadsheet reconstructed after the fact.
Contractor control underground
Mining runs on contractors, and a contractor without a valid medical, induction or competency certificate is a stoppage risk. The contractor portal blocks site access on expired documentation rather than flagging it after entry.
Offline capture at the face
Underground has no connectivity. Inspections, hazard reports and permits are captured offline on a tablet with the GPS coordinates and timestamp recorded at the moment of the action, then synchronised when the device returns to signal — not backdated at the surface.
The modules that carry most of the load here
The full platform is available regardless of sector. These are the modules that do the heaviest lifting in mining & extraction.
Mining & Extraction questions
Does SHEQ24 support the Mine Health and Safety Act, or only the OHS Act?
Will inspections work underground without connectivity?
Can we manage multiple shafts or operations in one system?
This page describes compliance obligations in general terms to explain what the platform does. It is not legal advice — confirm the current requirements applicable to your operation before relying on them.
See it against your own mining & extraction obligations.
Book a technical demonstration with a South African compliance systems architect. We map your actual registers, appointments and inspection schedules into the platform rather than showing a generic tour.