Collation of historical occupational health and accident data in the South African mining industry

Abstract

This project was designed to assemble historical material that was not easily accessible and publish it in an electronic format. Literature searches were undertaken on the Internet, various libraries (public and private) were visited and several private collections accessed. The material was collated, scanned and published to two CDs that also contain an installer that copies the electronic library to users’ hard drives. A search engine has also been included with the CD in order to access the material using keyword searches. During the project it was noted that there was no comprehensive, coherent process utilised by the Department of Minerals and Energy to capture lessons learned from seminal accident or disaster investigations