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Industrial Sector: Legal Compliance

The legal aspect:

If you don't know this yet, the most important thing to know is that the Industrial Sector is regulated by the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993) (also known as the OHS Act), which is enforced by the Department of Labour (DoL).

Ok, so what do I have to do?

If your company hasn't done any previous monitoring:

• The first step is to conduct a Hazard Identification Risk Assessment (Safety hazards) and a Baseline Health Risk Assessment (Health hazards);
• From here, an Occupational Hygiene Monitoring Programme is developed and implemented based on the outcome of the BHRA;
• The OHS monitoring programme will include the following aspects:

  Physical Stressors

  Area Noise (Noise Zoning) & Personal Noise Monitoring

  Vibration Exposure Monitoring

  Thermal Stress (Heat and Cold) Exposure Monitoring

  Illuminance Monitoring in the Workplace

  Non-Ionising Radiation

  Ionising Radiation

  Ergonomic Assessments

  Indoor Air Quality Assessments

  Local Extraction Ventilation (LEV) Assessment

  Chemical Stressors

  Hazardous Chemical Substance Monitoring

  DoL Silica Quartz Compliance Monitoring (Any sector that works with Silica Quartz)

  Asbestos

  Lead

  Biological Stressors

  Micro-organisms

  Pathogens

  Cell Cultures

  Human Endoparasite

• Annual Silica Quartz Compliance Monitoring reports are submitted to the DoL;
• The Hazard Identification Risk Assessment and Health Risk Assessment are updated on an annual basis to evaluate whether the HIRA and BHRA still reflect representative conditions. The HIRA and BHRA are reviewed if there have been changes in the system(s), procedures, operations or any incidents or accidents since the intial HIRA and BHRA.

How am I supposed to do all this!?

InDuna Risk Management offers all services relating to the requirements listed above.

Contact us for a representative to come out and visit your site to provide you with a quotation to conduct the necessary assessments and monitoring - whether your needs are project based or on a quarterly, monthly, bi-weekly or daily basis - we can help you and take the worry out of complying.

We also supply the instrumentation required to conduct the aforesaid monitoring. Call us for a quote!

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