The Inspectorate Division of the Minerals Commission has organized a workshop for stakeholders in the Western Region on the new minerals and mining regulation.
The participants at the one day workshop were briefed on the new regulation, minerals property and minerals right and explosive regulations.
Addressing participants on the health and safety regulation Legislative Instrument (LI) 2182, the Principal Inspector of Mines at the Minerals Commissions, Mr. Evans Adade, said the new regulation was to take care of the challenges posed by modern trends in mining.
He said though the 1970 regulations did not make provision for processing plants especially with regard to the use of cyanide, tailing storage facilities and waste dump as well as mine site rehabilitation and mine closure measures, the current health, safety and technical regulations seeks to address these challenges and more.
Mr Adade said with the new regulations, confrontation between mining firms and their host communities would be reduced.
He said the public and other stakeholders will be assured of their health and safety adding that the security agencies and the judiciary will have adequate guidelines when handling with offenses in the mining sector.