Disasters can be met head-on with preparedness

Mining is one of the deadliest professions and anyone who survives an accident deep in the earth’s belly can count themselves lucky. With the sprouting of several mining concessions, most of them artisanal, it is inevitable that accidents are bound to happen as reported in the media from time to time. That is when authorities begin to stress the importance of safety measures, as if they had been caught unawares. But do they need accidents to occur before setting up preventive measures?