Operator error is not a cause
Why an investigation that ends at the operator has not started, what the law asks for in Annexure 1, and how to get from the act to the condition that made it likely.
Occupational Health and Safety and ISO 45001
Baseline, issue based and task based: which risk assessment do you owe
The three kinds of risk assessment, what each is for, which the law requires and when, and why a 212 line baseline from 2021 does not answer an inspector.
Your first month as a health and safety representative
What to do in the first four weeks after your designation letter: the sections to read, the agreement to ask for, the first inspection, the first report and the first committee meeting.
What the committee may ask the employer, and what the employer must do
Sections 19 and 20 of the OHS Act: what a health and safety committee may recommend, what it must discuss, what records it keeps, and the duties that land on the employer.
Why the near miss you did not report matters
What a near miss is, why workers do not report them, what the law says about reporting, and what a site that records three a year is missing.
Section 14: what the law expects of every worker
The five duties section 14 of the OHS Act places on every employee, in plain words, with what the employer owes in return and what section 26 protects.
The 16(2) assignment is not a delegation of blame
What section 16(2) of the OHS Act actually does, what it leaves with the chief executive officer, what section 37 presumes, and how to write an assignment that works.
ISO 45001 internal audit checklist: questions and evidence clause by clause
Questions to ask, whom to ask and the evidence to see for every clause of ISO 45001 from 4 to 10, with the South African records.
What the inspector asks for first: the records a Department of Employment and Labour inspection opens with
The documents an OHS inspector asks for in the first hour, the section or regulation behind each one, and what a notice under section 30 does to the business.
Hazard identification and risk assessment under ISO 45001: HIRA registers that hold up with inspectors and auditors
How to build a HIRA register that meets 6.1.2 and the South African regulations: sources, who is exposed, ratings and the hierarchy.