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✅Safety tip for the month of August 2020✅

❓What is a health and safety plan❓

The Construction Regulations, 2014 define a health and safety plan:” health and safety plan” means a site, activity or project specific documented plan in accordance with the client’s health and safety specification;

Basically, it is a documented plan in line with the scope of work, the client’s health and safety specification and the risk profile, how the contractor will manage health and safety on a project.

❓What does the OHS Act and Regulations say❓

Construction Regulation 5: Duties of client

1 (l) discuss and negotiate with the principal contractor the contents of the principal contractor’s health and safety plan contemplated in regulation 7(1), and must thereafter finally approve that plan for implementation;✅

Construction Regulation 7: Duties of principal contractor and contractor
7. (1) A principal contractor must—
(a) provide and demonstrate to the client a suitable, sufficiently documented and coherent site specific health and safety plan, based on the client’s documented health and safety specifications contemplated in regulation 5(1)(b), which plan must be applied from the date of commencement of and for the duration of the construction work and which must be reviewed and updated by the principal contractor as work progresses;
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The health and safety plan are the only document mentioned in the OHS Act under CR 5 (1)(l) that must be approved – nowhere is there any mentioning that the client or contractor must approve a safety file.✅

📕In need of a Safety File for your company please don’t hesitate to contact me. 📕

Sharon Lubbe

V3HSE

Health, Safety and Environmental

+27 82 829 1775

[email protected]

Happy World Environmental Day 2020-06-05. Be safe, wear your masks, social distancing and wash your hands reguaulary. 🙏

📌Safety tip for the week📌

The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), 1993 requires the employer to have and maintain, as far a reasonably possible, a working environment that is safe and without risk to the health of the employees.

Health and safety in the workplace is important because it safeguards the welfare of those in employment. The Act is based on the principle that hazards in the workplace must be addressed through co-operation and clear communication between the employer and employees. Both parties must proactively identify risks and develop control measures to make the working environment safe.

Any queries on Safety Files for your company, please don’t hesitate to contact or email me, number available on website.

📍Sharon Lubbe

📍V3HSE

Health, Safety and Environmental

+27 82 82 91775

[email protected]

Safety tip for the period during LOCKDOWN

The 5 vital questions of Safety is, the 4 "W" and a "H".
Who - Government
What - Lockdown
When - 26 March 2020
Why - Covid 19 (infectious desease)
How - Stay at home SA, potential of interaction with infectious people and contamination of the ENVIRONMENT. 🌎

This is the only way we as citizens of our countries will MITIGATE this disease by Safeguarding yourself by wearing Masks,😷 gloves 🧤and stay at HOME🙏