Are You Ready for Your Health and Safety Inspection?

Do you think you’ll never get a visit from the Department of Labour?
Think again…

Recently:

• 1 230 prohibition notices stopped workplace operations due to imminent health and safety risks.
• A further 10 949 notices were served for contraventions in health and safety requirements where employers were given 60 days to get their house in order.
• Inspectors visited 29 161 employers – that’s 111 inspections every working day!

Do you know:

• How to survive an OHS inspection?
• The different types of inspections?
• The rights of inspectors
• What your company rights are?
• What inspection forms look like?
• What penalties/fines can be imposed on your business for non-compliance?

Quick Tips

A health and safety inspector is visiting your workplace. If they seize or remove an article or substance from your workplace, they MUST issue you with a receipt.

You Can Appeal Against H&S Inspector Decisions

Make sure you lodge your appeal within 60 days after the inspectors decision was made known.

Would you like to know the answers or have more useful tips like these? You can find them in Health & Safety Advisor which you can order for a 14 day trial period. You’ll also receive two bonus reports, a H&S Toolkit CD, regular updates, a weekly bulletin, online access to past Health and Safety updates and a H&S Helpdesk.

Many employers only see health and safety as a piece of legislation that’s not as important as the Labour Relations Act and Basic Conditions of Employment Act. But your obligations are just as binding. You may not end up at the CCMA but you could end up in jail, with a criminal record or have an employee die as a result of your negligence!

The Health & Safety Advisor will help you:

• Recognise safety hazards without leaving your desk
• Implement effective safety procedures and regulations
• Prevent accidents before they happen
• Convince everyone in your company why health and safety is important
• Make sure you pass your health and safety inspections with flying colours
• Plus, save you thousands, maybe millions, of rand.

By following our step-by-step instructions, relevant checklists, sample forms, handy tips and suggestions you can rest assured you’re 100% health and safety compliant.

If you’re still thinking: “Do I really need the Health & Safety Advisor loose leaf service?”…

• Yes, because this service WILL save your company money. Even if you use it to check your current health and safety procedures, policies and compliance with laws. Or if you don’t have any health and safety regulations in place this service will pay for itself a thousand times over.
• Yes, because this service isn’t like any other service available. The Handbook isn't just a summary of the Act or full of legal jargon that only lawyers understand. It’s full of step-by-step instructions, relevant checklists, sample forms, handy tips, suggestions and (most importantly) ACTIONABLE advice.
• Yes, because you don’t risk anything. You pay nothing upfront. Simply complete the order form and I’ll have the book couriered to you. Take 14 days to read through the handbook. See if this is information you can use. If, after 14 days you decide it’s not for you, you can send it back to us and we’ll forget about the bill! What could be fairer?

The Health and Safety Advisor also includes Chapters on:

• Risk Assessment: Do you make these four common mistakes?
• Employee Obligations: 3 Tips to get your employees to comply with health and safety laws
• Employer Obligations: Your 1 527 health and safety duties as an employer
• Incidents: Is your workplace a death trap that can cost lives and your business R795 000?
• PPE: 8 ways to make sure your employees wear their PPE