adminSpeaking at an Occupational Health and Assessment Standard certificate handover ceremony last week, group corporate affairs executive Mr Zenzo Nsimbi said the company has been performing well despite cashflow problems facing it.
“We are building up in terms of productivity and we are back in business as shown by the progress we have made since 2009 when we resumed our operations.
“However, we have some cashflow problems due to the liquidity crunch that the country is faced with,” he said.
He also said the issue of rundown machinery was affecting them as they had wet mines meaning they have to continually upgrade their equipment.
“Here we have wet mines and machinery easily gets rust hence wearing out easily but as a company we are always working on that making sure that production won’t be disrupted,” he said.
Mr Nsimbi encouraged the Government and other financial institutions to support local companies in order to realise economic growth.
“Generally industries are battling and need support and also rundown machinery is affecting most companies including us since we run wet mines.
“A lot of companies have closed down leading to many people losing their jobs hence poverty in the country,” he said.
Mr Nsimbi congratulated his team on getting the OHSAS 18001 certificate and added that they were going to keep upgrading their standards for good service delivery purposes.
The acting mine manager Mr Chris Kamkazingeni said the development of OHSAS 18001 started in October 2011 as they successfully went through all the developmental stages until they got certified in January this year.
“We expect a safety culture that will ultimately result in improved quality of life for our employees and stakeholders as well as improved compliance to legal requirements.
“Over the last couple of years, safety was mainly focused on first aid and accident investigation but now we have moved to systems approach that enables us to apply pro-active
corrective measures or control strategies before accidents occur,” he said.
The group Safety and Health Environment (SHE) Mr Kimbton Chiota said How Mine would derive a number of benefits as a result of the OHSAS project including improved overall legal compliance and environmental protection and monitoring programme.
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