Your 1 527 Health and Safety Duties as an Employer

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.

Order your copy of Health & Safety Advisor for a free 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. 

- 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 themselves 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.

The Health and Safety Advisor also includes chapters on:

• Construction: 16 duties of a construction owner or agent
• Risk Assessment: Do you make these four common mistakes?
• Employee Obligations: 3 Tips to get your employees to comply with health and safety laws
• Incidents: Is your workplace a death trap that can cost lives and your business R795 000?
• Inspections: Are you ready for your Health and Safety Inspection?
• PPE: 8 ways to make sure your employees wear their PPE