By Tendai Guvamombe.
Harare, Zimbabwe. (News of The South)- In a bid to avert the catastrophic tragidy that befell artisenal miners at Battlefields a Chegutu based gold mining initiative has intensified on robust mechanisms aimed at ensuring health safety for its employees.
Danangwe District Youth in Mining Cooperative (DDYMC) exists as a standlone business organization that has employed more than 6 thousand artisinal miners after closure of giant companies such as David WytHead.
Speaking to this publication over the week in Chegutu DDYMC Chairman Stewart Denford said thier organization had an obligation to ensure health safety measures are put in place for thier artsenal miners in the quest to avert the unfortunate incident that befell Battlefields Miners.
“We are the biggest industry that has remained operational in Chegutu so we have implemented long term measures to secure protection for our employees whom we value most, obviously we wouldn’t want to experience the same tragidy that befall artisinal miners at Battlefields,”he said.
It has been alleged that other artisinal miners should tour the gold mine to emulate DDYMC mode of operation where specialists are hired for constant checks to prevent future disasters on shafts with the latest being the the clinic build within the proximity of the mine area.
“We have done exceedingly well in ensuring safety to our miners, we build a clinic for miners who would have either fell sick or injured on duty and we are always kept updated as we periodically hire specialists to asses on the state of our mining site and I think other artisenal miners should come to emulate our mode of operation,” he added.
Human Resources Manager of DDYMC explained ways they implored as an organization to manage and avoid occurrences of disaster saying well experienced and professional miners are employed to work underground to achieve thier disired goal on sustainable ways.
“ We have more than 6 thausand employees, but we only employ miners who were formerly employed by Germany mining firms to work underground and we have more than 500 women working here whom we gave lighter tasks to execute.”
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