RiskCom OHS Consultancy Service

OHS Consultancy services add value to your organisation’s Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) requirements through effective and efficient partnerships.

OHS Consultants deliver a range of consulting services:

  • OHS Management System Audit / Gap Analysis
  • OHS Management System Design
  • OHS Policy & Procedure – review, update & develop Risk Assessment
  • OHS Workplace Inspection and Validation
  • Implementation of OHS recommendations
  • Review & create Job Safety Analysis and Safe Work Method Statements.

OH&S Construction

  • Project Support
  • Safety Management Plans
  • Construction Health and Safety Plans
  • Asbestos stripping and handling Plans
  • Arrange for OH&S Surveys
  • Hazard Identification
  • Incident Investigations based on root cause analysis (cause & effect)

Our Consultants are experienced in OH&S Auditing.

RiskCom S.A. (Pty) Ltd team of expert consultants have years of experience in health and safety, with the practical knowledge, coupled with a complete understanding of safety systems.

We can also help you with the below:

  • Technical guidance and information on Occupational Hygiene Stress Measurement i.e. Dust including Asbestos, Noise, Lighting, Chemical etc.
  • Development and Implementation of ISO 45001:2016 Occupational Health and Safety Management System;
  • Development and Implementation of Construction Health and Safety Files 2014, Health and Safety Specification, Health and Safety Plan, Fall Protection Plan and if required Asbestos Plan;
  • Advice (both verbal and written) on work health and safety matters
  • Review existing safety manuals
  • Developing and implementing policies and procedures
  • Developing and implementing forms, permit to work and checklists
  • Job Safety Analysis (JSA) development and implementation
  • Auditing contractors and subcontractors against site requirements
  • Contractor safety management systems.

Our consultants will:

  • Conduct Risk Assessments
  • Determine any relevant training needs
  • Assist with the set-up and running of health and safety committees
  • Assist with the health and safety representative election process
  • Provide advice when it comes to Inspector notices, investigations, and disputes

Health and Safety Audits

OHS workplace health and Safety Audits – gap analysis, auditing, site safety audits, project safety audits, contractor safety audits.

RiskCom S.A. (Pty) Ltd specializes in compliance and management solutions for organizations of all sizes, covering all industries. We can help any business with general safety audits, site safety audits, project audits, even contractor and supplier safety audits.

We can also help with all other compliance issues.

Client:

  • Means any person for whom construction work is performed for;
  • Party for who work is performed for. (It can be a person or an entity)

Construction Health and Safety Agent: (SACPCMP)

The person or entity appointed by the client through the Agent and who has full authority and obligation to act on the client’s behalf in terms of the Construct ion Regulations –

An agent contemplated in sub-regulations (5) and (6) must—manage the health and safety on a construction project for the client;

  • and be registered with a statutory body approved by the Chief Inspector as qualified to perform the required functions;

Agent (Construction Health and Safety Agent)

Means a competent person who acts as a representative for a client;

Where a construction work permit is required as contemplated in regulation 3(1), the client must, without derogating from his or her health and safety responsibilities or liabilities, appoint a competent person in writing as an agent to act as his or her representative, and where such an appointment is made the duties that are imposed by these Regulations upon a client, apply as far as reasonably practicable to the agent so appointed.

Construction Work Permit

Regulation 3(1)

Client who intends to have construction work carried out, must at least 30 days before that work is to be carried out apply to the provincial director in writing for a construction work permit to perform construction work if the intended construction work will—

See Exemption from 2015‐2018

The said application must be submitted with the following documents:

  1. Health and Safety specification
  2. Health and Safety plan
  3. Baseline risk assessment

THE EXEMPTION (1)

A client who intends to have construction work carried out, must at least 30 days before that work is to be carried out apply to the provincial director in writing for a construction work permit to perform construction work if the intended construction work starts after the 7th of August 2015 and the works contract is of a value exceeding one hundred and thirty million rand or Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) grading level 9.

THE EXEMPTION (2)

A client who intends to have construction work carried out, must at least 30 days before that work is to be carried out apply to the provincial director in writing for a construction work permit to perform construction work if the intended construction work starts on or after the 7th of February 2017 and the works contract is of a value exceeding forty million rand or Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) grading level 8.

THE EXEMPTION (3)

A client who intends to have construction work carried out, must at least 30 days before that work is to be carried out apply to the  provincial director in writing for a construction work permit to perform construction work if the intended construction work starts on or after the 7th August 2018 and – exceeds 365 days; will involve more than 3600 person days of construction work; or the works contract is of a value exceeding thirteen  million rand or Construction Industry Development  Board (CIDB) grading level 7.

 

Registered CHSA (Client Agent)

RiskCom SA is currently the only branch in RiskCom that can provide client with Client Health and Safety Agent functionalities
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Registered CHSO (Construction Health and Safety Officer)

RiskCom SA is currently the only branch in RiskCom that can provide client with Construction Health and Safety Officer functionalities.
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