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Last week we published a two-part blog giving you an overview on how to roll out HSE training in the workplace, which included the following eight steps:

Topics: training, Safety training, HSE training

In the second part of our overview on the eight-step process for rolling out an effective HSE training programme, we unpack the final four steps:

Topics: HSE best practice, Safety training, HSE training

Most occupational health and safety legislation requires employers to provide training to employees that enables them to perform their work in a manner that is safe and without risks to their health and safety. We all recognise the value and benefit of workforce training – it makes workers more efficient by increasing production, revenue, and profits while decreasing costs, waste, and inefficiencies. Effective training can lead to increased compliance with regulations. It can even lead to a happier, more satisfied workforce, which in turn reduces turnover and costly on-boarding. But it needs to be done properly and effectively – you cannot blaze forth with half-formed plans and vague ideas of how to proceed.

Topics: Occupational Health and Safety, Safety, Safety training

We should always, always take safety seriously, but safety information can be both informative and entertaining. Now that we’ve got your attention, take a look at these nine safety facts that seem crazy, but are in fact 100% true.

 

 

Topics: work safety, Occupational Health and Safety, Safety

During the second week of May, 2017, a gas explosion occurred at the disused Eland mine shaft at Harmony Gold near Welkom. Police have retrieved the bodies of 25 illegal miners, with the surviving 11 arrested upon surfacing aboveground. 

Why is there an increase of this illegal activity? What are the conditions on unused mines that makes it easy for unauthorised people to enter? Have mining companies been derelict in their duties? Let’s take a look.  

Topics: News and Opinions, HSE trends, CEO, Mining, Budget, Legislation, Illegal

We had such a positive response to our vaping article, we thought we’d cover smoking in a little more depth. As we all know, South Africa has some of the most stringent laws related to smoking that sometimes it might feel that you’ve just wrapped your head around one regulation, when you’re confronted with yet another legal ruling you weren’t aware existed. Often, the best way to handle this is to scale back to the basics, and work your way from there. Today, we bring you 10 of the most important smoking laws you need to pay attention to. But first – a little history…

Topics: Safety, HSE best practice, Smoking

Construction, and the costs of construction accidents, is an area of major concern to employers. Many people do not realise how much accidents really cost, because a lot of the expense isn’t obvious. Attention to accident prevention can and will improve a company's overall success.

Topics: Construction, HSE best practice, hse fails

Everyone needs a benchmark – how can you know whether what you’re doing is good enough, if you have nothing to compare it to? Take this quick quiz to see how your HSE efforts measure up. We’ve included a range of questions from general safety to HSE leadership. See how you compare at the end of the quiz, where we've posted the answers. 

Topics: HSE best practice, HSE quiz

NOSA, a member of the MICROmega Holdings Limited “MMG” group of companies, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Occupational Hygiene “OH” and Occupational Health and Safety Divisions “OHS” from LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of RELX Group. According to Greg Morris, Chief Executive Officer at MMG, “The acquisition of the divisions provides NOSA with an experienced team of health and safety consultants, along with expanding NOSA’s footprint in the occupational hygiene sector.”

Topics: NOSA news

South Africa’s law on smoking is very clear. Its law on vaping and e-cigarettes? Less so. South Africa has become progressively more restrictive on when and where its citizens can light up, and its penalties for non-compliance are appropriately punitive. But when it comes to e-cigarettes, does any legislation currently exist on what we can and can’t do? This blog will break down what is currently known regarding the legal implications of vaping.

Topics: HSE, Smoking, Vaping, Legislation, HSE legislation