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The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) were implemented in South Africa in 1994. The OHSA gives workers certain rights and responsibilities in relation to health and safety in the workplace. It also requires the management of an organisation to set up and to develop and implement certain safe...

The Hazardous Substances Act 15 of 1973 (the "Act") regulates the control of certain electronic products and other substances which may cause injury, ill health or death in human beings as a result of their inherent toxic, corrosive, irritant, strongly sensitising or flammable nature. Thes...

Standard services of a Construction Health and Safety Agent job follow the six stages of construction. Here is the scope of services. The Identification of Work, or scope of services, is outlined by the South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP). Here are thr...

The OHS Act Amendment Bill due in 2017 (which is dated 2014, when the amendments started,) will be circulated for comment soon. The DOL advised employers that: Site-specific OHS risk assessments, plans, and systems (to be defined), by competent persons, appointed in writing relevant to each identifi...

Attitude is a feeling, belief, or opinion of approval or disapproval towards something. Behaviours is an action or reaction that occurs in response to an event or internal stimuli (i.e., thought). People hold complex relationships between attitudes and behaviours that are further complicated by the ...

Everyone knows them; they are the operators selling their untested knowledge cheaply and in the field of training, characters that haven’t got the faintest clue how to interpret any of the legal requirements feeding employees with irrelevant information. Some employers still do not understand the ...

The main legislation providing for the health and safety of people in the workplace are the Occupational Health and Safety Act No. 85/1993. They apply to all employers, employees (including fixed-term and temporary employees) and self-employed people in their workplaces. The Acts set out the rights ...

Employers sometimes believe that because they trained their employees, that they are following their prescribed health and safety procedures while performing their tasks… 88{abc414c411bddb20b404dbc1f5bf8e7fc8a130e1ab54482cbe2add30c2fa8193} of accidents are caused by unsafe acts of workers and sure...

Competent person is defined as:- “A person who has in respect of the work or task to be performed, the required knowledge, training, experience and where applicable, qualifications specific to that work or task. Provided that where appropriate qualifications and training are registered in terms of...

The Department of Labour is to publish a draft document on major hazard installation (MHI) regulations for review in January 2017. The new draft regulations are intended to tighten compliance within MHI workplaces and also protect the public against major incidents. A technical committee appointed b...