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Use your Sheq induction to manage safety
Johan Dempers of Cygma Sheq, Free State office. Sheq inductions are tools to maintain your Sheq culture, and to prevent incidents. It is easy to get it right… or wrong. The objective of Sheq induction...
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How to spot major incidents and Black Swans in advance
Once detected, rare events are easy to see. The problem in health and safety management is to see them in advance. Major incidents are as rare as Black Swans. You have not seen one on site for many...
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Sheq training methods must change
Johan Geere is a learning director at an adult training provider. Current Sheq training methods would not produce the level of skills described in the SAQA unit standards, writes Johan Geere of Noyeo...
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A mining behaviour-based safety (BBS) case study
Adriaan van der Colff unpacks some behaviour-based safety implementation experience. Behaviour-based safety programmes require a paradigm shift from workers, and from management, to understand the...
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How to achieve zero harm in construction
Prof Fidelis Emuze of the Central University of Technology (CUT). Construction people agree on 38 practices, and six factors for preventing fatalities, injuries and diseases, towards zero harm in...
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A health and safety checklist for general industry
Health and safety checklists help to keep Sheq management systems on track. Some states, and some employers, use a health and safety checklist based on USA OHS standards, to check their Sheq management...
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De Novo to launch a paperless Sheq contractor system
De Novo Media will launch a web-based Sheq contractor system in 2017, bringing paperless Sheq management tools to South African employers. SHEQContractor is a ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS), to ensure...
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Legal compliance audits is not a Sheq service
Rudy Maritz unpacks some pitfalls of legal compliance audits, versus Sheq compliance audits. Legal compliance audits delay some health and safety files, and block some contractors from vendor...
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We need a construction safety culture
Statistics give us different views of construction safety culture. Bill Coetzee asks whether safety is in the eye of the loss data beholder. Some indicators of the state of safety in industry could be...
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How to manage sexual harassment complaints
There is no generally accepted signage against sexual harrassment. (Dimitri Natshin /Shutterstock). Sexual harassment is unfair discrimination, regulated by the Constitution, Employment Equity Act, and...
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How to develop PPE policy and management
Pieter Lotz consults employers in Limpopo province on health and safety management. Effective selection, issue, use, and management of personal protective equipment, requires a detailed PPE policy. The...
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How to spot risk tolerance at work
David Broadbent unpacks the large role of risk tolerance in workplace health and safety. Major incidents are rare, but they migrate to sites where managers and workers have a high risk tolerance,...
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