by Jaco Coetzer | Aug 27, 2026 | Legal
A Department of Employment and Labour safety inspection should not be treated as an event you prepare for only after the inspector arrives. The best preparation is to maintain a working occupational health and safety system every day, with current documents, trained...
by Jaco Coetzer | Aug 27, 2026 | Legal
No. Appointing a safety officer does not transfer the employer’s or management’s legal responsibility for occupational health and safety. A safety officer can advise, inspect, monitor compliance, coordinate documentation and report hazards, but the employer and...
by Jaco Coetzer | Aug 27, 2026 | Legal
Section 16 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act places overall responsibility for ensuring that the employer’s OHS duties are properly discharged on the chief executive officer. It also allows the CEO to assign duties to managers under his or her control,...
by Jaco Coetzer | Aug 19, 2026 | Legal
A health and safety representative must be a full-time employee who works at the workplace or section they will represent and who is familiar with the conditions and activities there. The employer cannot simply appoint an outside consultant, visiting safety officer or...
by Jaco Coetzer | Aug 19, 2026 | Legal
Does every shift need its own trained first aider? In a shift-based workplace, the important requirement is that the necessary first-aid competence is actually available whenever employees are working. It is not enough to have trained first aiders somewhere on the...
by Jaco Coetzer | Aug 18, 2026 | Legal
Yes. A subcontractor performing construction work must keep its own health and safety documentation for the work it performs. Under Construction Regulation 7, a contractor must prepare a suitable health and safety plan before starting work and must open and keep a...
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