Construction 

• Site Inspections
• Legal Compliance Audits
• Provision of full-time or part-time professionals
• Construction Health & Safety Officer (CHSO)
• Construction Health & Safety Manager (CHSM)
• Construction Health and Safety Agents(PrChA)

Operations and Facilities

• Legal Compliance and/or Assurance Audits
• Development of a Health and Safety Management System (ISO 45001:2018)
• Risk Assessments
• Safe Work Procedures

The Capturing and Managing of Injuries On Duty (IODs)

The Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act 130 of 1993 intends:

To provide for compensation for disablement caused by occupational injuries or diseases sustained or contracted by employees in the course of their employment, or for death resulting from such injuries or diseases, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

1. Is to inform employees who are injured on the job, regardless of their severity to report it within 24 hours to the relevant officials and to provide procedures concerning reporting.
2. It also outlines the steps to be taken when an employee is reassigned to a different supervisor while recovering from an injury.
3. The DPSA provides employees with injury-on-duty leave with pay when an employee is unable to work, due to an accident or illness directly related to their job or worksite. Injury on-duty leave without pay is provided to cover extended periods of absence due to injury.

5Conducting in-depth Health and Safety Compliance Audits

A safety audit is a structured, methodical of how workplace activities affect safety and health. Conducting these audits help organizations evaluate the success of their safety and health programs, environmental programs, and process safety management.

The primary goal of a safety audit is to evaluate compliance with safety regulations and the overall performance of the safety program/ project.

Comprehensive Risk Assessments

Health and safety risk assessments must be done to ensure that employees are not in danger when they work in each work environment. Firstly, the assessment identifies all the safety hazards and risks that employees face while they are working.

Which involves an inspection of day-to-day operations as well as processes to identify conditions, objects, activities, and/or events that may pose a threat to the health, safety, and wellbeing of personnel or which may cause damage to materials, equipment, and structures.

The different types of Risk Assessments we conduct.

1. Baseline risk assessments (Baseline HIRA)
2. Issue-based risk assessments (Issue-based HIRA)
3. Continues risk assessments (Continues HIRA)

Safe Operating Procedures (SOPs)

A safe operating procedure (SOP) is a written document that provides step-by-step instructions on how to safely perform a task or activity which involves some risk to health and safety. A safe the operating procedure is sometimes referred to as a safe work procedure or safe work method statement.

Content of SOP

The task/process to be undertaken;

1. Details of any legislative requirements that are appropriate and have been considered in the safe operating procedure, e.g. for high-risk tasks, forklift operations, confined space entry, hot works, etc.
2. Definitions of any specialized or unusual terms.
3. Specific information regarding the potential hazards and associated risks of the task.
4. Precautions required to eliminate or adequately control the risk before commencing the task, such as isolation procedures, ensuring guarding is in place, communication procedures, etc.

Health and Safety Policies and Procedures

A health and safety policy is a written statement of principles and goals embodying the company’s commitment to workplace health and safety. There are no hard and fast rules about what to include in a policy. The employer should create a policy that is suitable and sufficient to address the health and safety need of the company.

The primary objective of a health and safety policy should be to prevent or reduce work-related accidents and occupational diseases. An appropriate policy could help to avoid the expense, inconvenience, and other consequences of workplace accidents by making sure that employees and other role players know what is expected of them.

Health and Safety Training

1. Health and Safety Representative (Level 1)
2. Incident Investigation (Level 2)
3. O.H.A.S.A
4. Legal Liability
5. Confined Spaces
6. Supervisory Safety
7. Hand Tools

Occupational Health (Medicals)

1. Affordable PDP medicals
2. Baseline medical examination
3. Fitness certificate examination

Health & safety files

A Health and Safety File, otherwise known as a ‘Contractor Safety File’ is a record of information focusing on the management of health and safety on construction sites for contractors and sub-contractors. It protects the employer from criminal liability and proves compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations and with Covid-19 compliance which focuses on the management of prevention of the spread of the virus.