by iohsol_admin | May 12, 2022 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
Failure to Arrange a Health Risk Assessment Could Prove Costly Most of the more established companies in South Africa are members of a group medical aid scheme and contribute to their employees’ monthly premium payments. However, while these schemes provide...
by iohsol_admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
Many South Africans have been working from home following the lockdown restrictions. However, others have been less fortunate and have lost their jobs. The unemployed are probably hoping to find jobs when the pandemic eventually subsides, and the homeworkers are...
by iohsol_admin | Mar 31, 2021 | General, Occupational Health and Safety
Throughout the long history of paid employment, the vast majority of employers have been free to adopt a somewhat indifferent attitude to their workers’ welfare. Not only did they pay wages that were barely sufficient for subsistence living with little or no...
by iohsol_admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
For most of the country’s history, there has been no attempt by successive governments to introduce legislation concerning Health and Safety Management in South Africa’s workforce. In all fairness, much the same can be said of every industrialised nation...
by iohsol_admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
While, at one time, few employers showed much concern for the welfare of their workers and even fewer were likely to accept responsibility for injuries or disease caused by their working conditions, that has since changed. Most countries, including South Africa, have...
by iohsol_admin | Dec 17, 2020 | Occupational Health and Safety, Occupational Hygiene
South Africa is a mixed bag when it comes to occupational health and safety management. In some arenas and by many metrics we score well, yet with construction and mining being just two of the extensive and potentially dangerous pursuits considered essential to our...
