Featured Issue 4 2019

Moves by the Department of Employment and Labour to employ an additional 500 occupational health and safety (OHS) inspectors are likely to have far-reaching implications for the profession in South Africa. The... Read More...

The annual Safetember campaign returns with a focus on preventing falls from heights – the second most-common cause of fatal accidents in the construction industry In September of each year, the Federated Empl... Read More...

“The focus of occupational health and safety (OHS) should be on insights, not incidents.” This was among the observations made at the 2019 Saiosh Health and Safety Conference. DEBORAH RUDMAN reports While add... Read More...

Sand builds the world around us – but it is running out. Worse, much of it is being mined illegally, not only in South Africa, but in other parts of the world. WANITA WALLACE reports The United Nations (UN) ha... Read More...

Having spent a month in Canada, where he attended three conferences addressed by experts in health and safety, Mathew Goncalves has come to believe that it is time to challenge the philosophies and foundations ... Read More...

Slips, trips and falls are among the most common causes of accidents in the workplace and could lead to serious injury, or even death. WANITA WALLACE finds out more According to statistics from the Health and S... Read More...

South Africa’s legal professionals have become major targets in cyberattacks that have seen billions of rand lost  to criminals each year Hack attacks, ransom threats and theft of money through fraudulent tran... Read More...

Occupational health and safety officers can learn a lot about safety from the newly released HBO mini-series on the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. MARISKA MORRIS shares some of the lesso... Read More...

As every occupational health and safety officer knows, it is not just about providing personal protective equipment (PPE). Businesses need to invest in the correct PPE. MARISKA MORRIS reports on what the expert... Read More...