Scope

The SHP shall cover all safety and health activities in the conduct of mining operation (exploration, development, utilization and final mine rehabilitation and/or decommissioning stages) and/or mineral processing operations (development, plant operation, and decommissioning stages).

Guiding Principles

The SHP is designed as a holistic approach to ensure that workers are provided with a just, safe, and humane working environment through the following guiding principles:

1. Promotion of safety and health culture;
2. Strict enforcement of safety and health laws, rules and regulations;
3. Establishment of effective systems of monitoring, inspection and investigations to improve safety and health management; and
4. Provision of trainings and human resources development.

Goal and Objectives

The goal of the SHP is to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths thereby assuring the conservation of valuable manpower resources and the prevention of loss or damage to lives and properties. 

To achieve this goal, the following are the objectives:

1. Promote a culture of safety and health through strict but dynamic, inclusive and gender-sensitive measures in the formulation and enforcement/ implementation of policies and programs related to occupational safety and health;
2. Protect every worker against injury, sickness, or death through safe and healthful working conditions;
3. Provide for the effective systems of monitoring, inspections, and investigations to improve safety and health management;
4. Establish linkages (e.g. government, community, academe, non-profit and non-governmental organizations) in promoting safety and health matters;
5. Provide training and human resources development consistent with national development goals, and with the State’s commitment to the total development of every worker as a complete human being; and
6. Comply with national and international law obligations relating to mine safety and health.