Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace: Perspectives from the Rock-Face

The book highlights the day-to-day lived experience of miners’ work and organisational practices that shape the day-to-day running of the production process in a deep-level mining workplace.

Dr Sizwe Timothy Phakathi (PhD Oxford) is Head of Safety and Sustainable Development at the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and an Employer Convenor at the Mine Health and Safety Council of South Africa. He is a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science and in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. Dr Phakathi is an alumnus of the Emerging Leaders in African Mining Programme coordinated by the Minerals and Energy for Development Alliance at the University of Western Australia and University of Queensland.