Safety and Occupational Health Management System in Mining to Reduce Fatal Accidents in the Mining Industry

Abstract

This article is based on identify new preventive safety management indicators in Title III—Occupational Safety and Health Management System of the Regulation of Occupational Safety and Health in Mining that fulfills a preventive role in the decrease of the number of fatal accidents in mining activities (DS-024-2016-EM). A detailed analysis of the contents of the 27 chapters included in the Title III of D.S. N° 024-2016-EM and the articles modified by D.S. N°023-2017-EM was elaborated. We started by defining safety management indicators among the components and tools of Title III of D.S. N°024-2016-EM that are effective in the task of meeting the regulation’s objective, which is to decrease the number of accidents, especially fatal accidents in mining sites in Peru. For this purpose, the findings of the two specific objectives of the preceding research were taken as a reference, which in the first case consisted of detracting the “safety indicators” as preventive management indicators and secondly, the ordering and categorization of the 27 chapters of the Title III of D.S. N°024-2016-EM into 10 components, 05 safety management tools, and 12 chapters that fulfill a complementary function within the safety management system. These important aspects are transversal to the research and focus on the identification of preventive management indicators among the elements of the system that have been catalogued as components and tools. A rigorous analysis was carried out, based on a solid foundation of occupational risk management in mining.