The Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) has announced guidelines to contain the possible spread of Covid-19 amongst employees in the mining sector and any other person they may contact.
The new guidelines also asks mining operators and quarry owners to provide relevant personal protective equipment (PPEs) to all workers, and require miners put in place tracing programmes.
Gatare called on mining and quarry operators to act in accordance with the guidelines.
The guidelines also stipulate that mining and quarry owners have to put in place risk assessment mechanisms to identify any risk or hazard to the safety and health in the mining activities.
The mining sector employs about 100,000 people, according to RMB but with the pandemic the sector is among those that have been hard due to restriction of movement and disruption of supply chain.
