Use these 30 Questions to Meet all Workplace Facility Regulations

Dear Reader

Do you make these mistakes?:

If you think health and safety isn’t important in your company, think again. The Department of Labour is clamping down and doing more workplace inspections.

Are you sure your company would pass a health and safety inspection? Are you prepared to have your company shut down for non-compliance?

A lot of companies aren’t too worried about implementing health and safety in their workplace.
On the one hand, management doesn’t want to spend money to implement health and safety. On the other, companies that do have health and safety policies, can’t get their employees to follow the procedures.

Most people only realise the problem when an accident happens. They get a visit from the Department of Labour, the employer gets laid with criminal charges and the business is shut down – which can cost some companies millions!

Only then do they ask why procedures were not in place or followed correctly. Only then do they start to see how important health and safety is. By then, its too late.

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We’ve done all the hard work for you. 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.

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Take 14 days to read through the handbook. 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!

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Here’s a sample of what else is included in the Health and Safety Advisor:

As an employer, by law you have to maintain a safe and healthy working environment.

 

This includes:
- Identify hazards. When was the last time you checked what disinfecting agents and cleaning materials your company was using? You need to comply with the Hazardous Chemical Regulations. There are over 1 500 items you must evaluate in your workplace, according to the OHS Act, and hundreds more from SABS 0400: National Building regulations.
We’ll give you 1 000 point checklist to make this onerous task a simple one in Health & Safety Advisor. We also include how you can easily identify unhealthy or unsafe situations in the workplace, and how to conduct a risk assessment to ensure legal compliance.

- Remove hazards. Which hazards must be removed and which ones can stay unchanged? We give you quick, easy guidelines to use.

- Reduce hazards that can’t be removed. The easiest way to handle this is to have written policies and procedures. We’ll give you the written policies and procedures to comply with occupational health and safety legislation, help with induction training, performance management and with your obligation to inform all employees of hazards.

- Manage hazards. You must regularly review your policies and procedures. Are your employees able to protect them selves from hazards, are they complying with safety procedures? Are you doing regular inspections? If you employ more than 20 people, you must have a safety representative and SHE committee. We’ll give you samples of all the forms you need, including nomination forms, voting letters, nomination lists, reporting flowcharts, agendas for health and safety meetings, minutes, legal requirements, methods of voting and more.

- Make sure you keep records. This could be the only defence you have against an inspection by the Department of Labour. We’ll make record keeping easy for you. Use our checklist to ensure you’re keeping records for everything you’re supposed to. That you’re keeping them for long enough and in the correct format. We’ll make sure you manage your hazards 100% by the book.

 

Employees think that safety is something “management’ must do. They’re wrong.
Employees also have duties to comply with the OHS Act. Some companies make their employees sign indemnities to relieve their employer of any responsibilities. This isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. The CEO will ALWAYS remain liable for compliance with the Act.

88% of all accidents are caused by unsafe acts of workers. This is because they either don’t know how to do the job safely or because they don’t want to.

Never assume your employees are trained because they have been with you for a long time. Keep official records in writing e.g. Training certificates or acknowledgement if training done. Train them to ensure they know how to use it and use your disciplinary process to enforce it.

Tip #1: Include a health and safety clause in all contracts of employment.
Include a clause in your employees’ contracts of employment stating that “failure to adhere to health and safety regulations may lead to disciplinary action and/or possible dismissal”. This rule must be applied consistently and continuously to build a culture of safety awareness and ensure that workers can’t claim they’re being singled out for punishment.

Tip #2: Your employees can be fined R50 000
If the Department of Labour does an inspection of your workplace and your employee is found guilty of negligence or willful misconduct, he could be fined. The maximum penalty for non-compliance is R50 000 or 1 year in jail – or both!
Give your employees the useful 22 point checklist from Health & Safety Advisor to help them understand their health and safety obligations.

Tip #3: Stop employees damaging safety equipment
In terms of the OHS, it’s an offence to intentionally or recklessly misuse or damage any safety equipment. Ensure that this rule is known and enforced. You can take disciplinary action in cases of abuse.

You need to make sure your employees comply with health and safety laws so accidents don’t happen in your company, or you will be held responsible.

The Health & Safety Advisor will give you additional tips, actionable steps and advice to make your employees comply with your health and safety rules. Including how to set examples, encourage correct usage, assist with maintenance, follow-up with complaints, ensure attendance and implement training.

Nearly every month there is a health and safety fatality in the construction industry. This industry is one of the most closely monitored by the Department of Labour. If you haven’t had a visit from an inspector yet, you will soon.  

Check if you have done ALL of these things:

In doubt? This is only a small part of what you should be doing to comply with construction regulations. Health & Safety Adviser includes the construction regulations to make sure you’ve done everything you need to comply. Use our checklists, sample documents, templates and actionable advice to make sure you comply.

Are health and safety training courses too expensive? Here’s an easy solution to all of your health and safety training costs.

Training courses cost between R1 000-R3 000 per day. If you send 15 supervisors on a 2-day training course that’s R80 000 - and will they really remember everything they’ve learnt?

With the Health & Safety Advisor they could have their own safety consultant on their bookshelf. It’s not like any other book available. It’s not just a summary of the Act or full of legal jargon that only lawyers understand.

This is written in simple terms, with easy checklists and actionable advice. Next time there’s an accident in the workplace, your supervisor can quickly turn to the correct chapter and see exactly what he should do to comply with health and safety laws.

 

Having employees who understand health and safety will:

Don’t take our word for it – order a copy of the Health & Safety Advisor and see for yourself how easy it is to understand. We’ll even offer you a 10% discount if you order more than 5 copies.

 

1. You’ll meet every health and safety law requirement and avoid hefty fines!
Don’t get caught by the Department of Labour not complying with health and safety laws. Use the Health & Safety Advisor handbook to make sure you comply with every legal requirement.
Each section includes practical, actionable advice written in plain English with no legalese. Each topic is discussed in detail and has step-by-step instructions, checklists, sample documents and templates and many immediately understandable examples.

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You can make use of our health and safety expertise when ever you need it. It’s always at your disposal – simply lying on your desk.
Don’t look for a solution yourself or risk making an expensive error – use the Health & Safety Advisor.
Use our experts knowledge to easily look up your problem and find a step-by-step solution, checklist, letter or template to solve your health and safety issue.

3. Our experts will answer your health and safety questions
If you’ve subscribed to the Health & Safety Advisor, and have a question you can’t answer, send your questions to our experts. Simply email us your question and we’ll send you an answer within 72 hours.

4. Keep up to date with the free health and safety tip
Every Tuesday we’ll email you the Health & Safety Bulletin. This email newsletter is part of your handbook and will give you tips, tools and strategies you can use to keep on top of health and safety in your workplace.

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After these 14 days, you can continue using it by simply paying the invoice sent with the handbook. Or, you can return it to us and we’ll forget about the bill.

 

Best of all, you can TRY the Health and Safety Advisor Loose Leaf Service for a whole two weeks before you commit a cent. Start your 14-day risk free trial now!

6. Receive these extra gifts on cd:
1. Essential Health & Safety Toolkit: 57 Sample letters, forms, procedures, checklists, and meeting agendas.

2. Copies of the OHS and COID Act, including regulations so you can look up any legal jargon.
 

Question:
What’s the difference between Health & Safety Adviser and other health and safety books?

Answer:
Other books are full of legal jargon that don’t make any sense. In Health & Safety Adviser you will find practical advice, tips, sample templates, forms, checklists and useful examples to make sure you understand every health and safety situation.

Plus, Health & Safety Advisor is regularly updated. Instead of buying a new book every time legislation changes, you’ll receive updates on a regular basis. You can rest assured that we’ll make sure your book is always 100% up to date, so that you’ll never need to buy a new book again.

Question:
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Answer:
We want you to try it free for 14 days. All you have to do is complete the Order Form, and we’ll courier (at no extra cost) the Health & Safety Advisor to you. Then you can see for yourself just how useful it is.
If you decide it’s not for you, you can simply return it to us. And you won’t owe us a cent – what could be fairer?

 

 

 

“The Health & Safety Advisor help us reduce the amount of time required when doing incident investigations and simplified our ‘on-site’ registers.”
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“I am truly impressed. I’ve been using the tips given in newsletters at my SHE meetings.”
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“We recently bought the Health & Safety Advisor and I have used it extensively to start up the health and safety in our company. I’ve use the Policy, letters, notes on committees and responsibilities. Well worth the money.” J. Thom

“The Health & Safety Advisor is one of my valuable assets and has permanent present on my desk. I definitely recommend it to any SHE official irrespective of the size of his/her responsibility and past experience. I am in this field now for the ±30years and have successfully completed SAMTRAC in the 1980’s – believe me you never stop learning.” G. Wolfaardt

 

Here is a sample of what you will find in your handbook:

• Control measures you must put in place to prevent accidents
• Accidents or incidents – step by step what you must do next
• How to calculate how much compensation to pay – must you pay any at all?
• Reporting incidents/ accidents/ and near incidents: the different procedures.
• How should you secure an area after an accident?
• How do you claim from the workers compensation fund? Can everyone claim?
• How to deal with absenteeism because of excessive sick leave
• Medical check ups for employees: when, who, how often, documents you need.
• 257 Point checklist to ensure you comply with all the Construction Regulations
• 15 Strategies to get employees to bring a safety attitude to work
• Risk assessment worksheets to make sure you’ve included everything
• How to do risk assessment inspections
• Ten-point checklist for emergency preparedness
• Checklist: health and safety requirements in the workplace
• 16 Safety signs you must display in your workplace
• How to conduct a compliance health and safety audit
• How to develop a health and safety policy
• How to monitor and evaluate your health and safety programme
• 11 Legal duties of the employer
• Health and safety representatives: responsibilities and duties
• Duties of manufacturers and suppliers
• Employees responsibilities: they have obligations as well
• 41 Sample nomination and appointment forms
• OHS checklists and registers
• And much more…
 

 

We’ll make sure you’re 100% health and safety compliant.

We don’t just reprint the legal Acts, we’ll tell you how to comply with them. We cover all of these Acts and regulations: OHS act and regulations (including the Construction regulations), Integration of labour laws act, Tabacco products control act, Compensation for occupational injuries & diseases act, Draft National Health and Safety Bill, Environmental Legislation, National Building Regulations (SANS Code).
 

Meet the health and safety experts who contribute to Health & Safety Advisor

Christel Fouche
Christel is managing director of Advantage A.C.T. (Pty) Ltd and has been involved in health and safety for over 20 years. She completed her MBA in health and safety through the University of Southern Queensland, is an accredited trainer with City & Guilds and is the chair of the SAATCA OHSAS18001 Scheme committee.

Richard Swift
Richard joined his father in the field of occupational health and safety eleven years ago. Within a few years, he had achieved a +95% average for risk management at three of his client's operations, culminating in receiving an internal award of "best of the best" for the highest score within the group of companies.

Eric Swift
Eric has over 35 years experience in the field of occupational health and safety. He started a health and safety consultancy fourteen years ago and uses his experience to advise clients on the best way to achieve legal compliance.

Wilna Louw
(B. Cur, OH, ROSProf, F.IoSM, SAATCA HSE 002)
Wilna is the General Manager of Edwilo Risk Consultants, a health safety and environmental consultancy business. She is a registered Occupational Safety Professional, Assessor for OSHAP PDB, Deputy President of the Institute of Safety Management, and a registered HSE Systems Auditor.

Nell Browne
A registered Occupational Health Practitioner, with 20 years experience in the occupational health and safety field. She has a Certificate in Medicine and Law (Cum Laude) and is registered with SAATCA as an OHSAS 18001 Senior auditor. She is registered with the ETDP SETA as a facilitator, assessor and moderator and regularly designs and presents OHS training.

Hayleth Gunter
Hayleth is a Health and Safety and Risk Management Consultant with 25 years experience in the Risk Control field. He was previously the Regional Manager in the Johannesburg region for the National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA). Since 1989 he has provided a consulting service to industry locally and internationally, assisting companies to implement the requirements of current Health and Safety Legislation.

Ted Rowen
Ted is a fellow of the Institute of Safety Management, the South African Institute of Security and the South African Institute for Risk Managers. He is a registered Occupational Health and Safety Practitioner. He currently runs a risk management and loss control consultancy dealing with all aspects of Occupational Health, safety and the work environment.

Sven Whittle
Sven is an Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner with over 19 years health care experience. She has 7 years experience in the occupational health industry, where she manages Wellness clinics for various companies.

Stephanie Kruger
Stephanie is a registered occupational nurse practitioner, and started Soul Sister. Her aim is to integrate complementary health with allopathic medicine, by providing holistic care to the patient within the workplace, and assisting them in their own healing process.

 

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