Health and safety, and environmental protection, still feature highly on the agenda of today's high-tech coal industry. These are and will remain important operating principles for achieving the company's strategic business objectives. We are fully aware of the fact that safe working practices combined with an awareness of health and safety principles and pollution control regulations play a key role in DSK's success. ...more

DSK has already introduced and successfully completed a broad programme of health and safety measures. In recent years the huge success of the industry's safety drive has been reflected in the massive fall in accident rates. ...more

In spite of the fact that the mining industry employs modern technology and applies the latest industrial health and safety practices the work of the coal miner is still fraught with risks. Constant changes brought about as a result of mechanisation and the automation of operating processes, along with the introduction of new working routines and organisational procedures, have helped reduce - but not eliminate - the physical stress associated with working below ground. ...more

Mining operates in the natural environment and also works with it. There are very few branches of industry that are as closely associated with nature as coal mining. When coal is extracted below ground the mining industry has an environmental impact. ...more