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The Importance of Workplace Safety

Any organization has a moral and legal responsibility of keeping their employees and visitors safe, by implementing and adhering to the Occupational Health and Safety act’s (OHS) requirements. This can be achieved by establishing an active OHS Committee with management and employee representation, which drives and ultimately ensures workplace safety.   The OHS act applies to [...]

5 Steps to executing an accurate risk evaluation in health and safety

What is risk evaluation?  Risk evaluation in health and safety is most commonly referred to as conducting or performing a ‘Health and Safety Risk Assessment”, or sometimes also referred to as HIRA – Hazard Identification Risk Assessment. Risk evaluation or assessment is a process of determining the hazards and their accompanying risk, of an incident […]

The role of the safety consultant in the workplace

The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act requires that all companies, businesses, organizations and departments look after the health and safety of all their employees within the workplace, including management to lower level employees. The responsibility of OHS lies with all employees, not just management or the Chief Executive Officer, but all employees within the [...]

The best health and safety practices in the workplace

The article below is a guideline of how anyone can implement effective health and safety practices in the workplace. The Occupational Health and Safety Act’s primary objectives and intention and what employers need to implement and try to achieve Occupational Health and Safety Act - No 85 of 1993: ‘To provide for the health and [...]