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We provide our safety courses both in the classroom or online, which ever best suits your, or your employees schedule
Launched in 1994, we've been conducting safety courses since the very beginning. We've mastered our work craft, but always strive to improve, for you.
You will always be assisted by trained consultants who are well versed in what is required. They'll ensure that your company is managing their safety training effectively and efficiently.
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It is an acronym for The Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993. This is the legislation our government put in place to manage workplace safety in South Africa. In it, you can find all the guidelines and requirements set out for employees and employers in South Africa with regards to their safety. Below is a link to the act:
https://www.gov.za/documents/occupational-health-and-safety-act
Safety trainging is training employers put the employees on to reduce the hazards and risks within their workplace. These training interventions cover topics surrounding processes, tools and machinery. The sole purpose of safety training is to promote safety in the way they handle themselves at the workplace.
Yes indeed, depending on the risks and hazards in your workplace, you could only need a first aid level 1, safety representative and fire marshal, however, the more risks and hazards you have, the more you'll need to focus on safety training for your staff. For example, if there is chemicals on your job site, you will need to do some for of chemical handling course for the employees workign with those chemicals.
See our safety training calculator here:
It all depends on what type of processes and machinery you make use of in your workplace. But the law does put out some mandatory safety training interventions like, induction for your staff, safety representative, first aid level 1, fire fighting, and more. It all depends on what risks your employees and the public are facing with your operations.
See our safety training calculator to get you started in the right direction:
It is up to the employer, the OSH act establishes that it is the employer's workplace operations that has introduced risks and hazards into the lives of the employees and the public. It is therefore the responsibility of the workplace and it's employers to ensure their staff are adequately trained on various safety training interventions, or coached, supervised, protected, etc.
The fundamental rule of safety is to remove the risks and hazards, if they cannot be removed, then safe operating procedures are put into place, it is simply put, these procedures the employees are trained on. They receive safety training on the hazards and risks of the job tasks, and how to avoid them. Be careful though, the government has already created safety training courses which cover various topics, and only recognise their standards put out by SAQA. In other words, a first aider in your workplace, because the threat is there for someone to have a heart attack, the government has already stipulated the exact safety training that person must get. Then you will need to get an approved safety training provider like Skills Resource Group to conduct the training for you because they are accredited to do so. Always conduct hazard identifications and risk assessment on your work processes and machinery to know exactly what safety training you will need, then approach your safety training provider to see if there is any SAQA courses aligned to your risks or hazards.
If you need, we could give you a quick overview of what training you could need, as per the OSH Act, just click below:
There is two ways to conduct training, the first way is to tell the person, "Don't do this". As we all know, any person who is told not to do something, will do it as soon as the watchful eye is gone. Much like that famous quote, "When the cat is gone, the mouse is the boss". Simply instructing staff not to do something will require a keen eye from supervisors and management to maintain good behavior. It's the problem we see in our motor vehicle licensing, we are taught what we can and cannot do, however as we know, there is still death and carnage on the streets, that is because we don't train the drivers up on WHY they should drive a certain way.
This is how you should approach your training, first teach the attendees on what must be done, but spend a good time going through WHY it must be done. In other words, yes, we told you not to stick your finger in that electrical socket, but this is why, this is electricity, this is what it does to the human body, etc.
The person will walk away with their minds opened to the risks, meaning that they themselves will supervise their own work because their eyes would have been opened to the dangers and risks.
Yes, 100%. It is mandatory for all business in South Africa. The requirements are set out in the OSH Act and non-compliance could lead to 2 years imprisonment or a hefty fine.
At any accredited safety training provider, like Skills Resource Group. An accredited provider is a company that has course material aligned to the specific unit standard set out by SAQA, as well as an assessor well qualified to do so. What this means is that each company or service provider that want to do training, must have a professional body or government organisation that has accredited them to do so. You can ask any provider for the accreditation certificate, and, if proper, they'll be able to forward you their document.
Skills Resource Group has various accreditations through SAIOSH and TETA.
Quite important, in every workplace there exists both hazard and risks, and it's up to the employer to remove those risk as they carry dangers, costs and liabilities with them. Someone could loose their life because they have not been properly trained on a safety process, an employee could cause bodily hard, as well as, damage to property or equipment if they have not been trained up on a machine or process with machines. Lastly, there is a liability placed on the employer by law, which could result in the employer going to jail or receive a hefty fine.
That is why it is important for safety training, to prevent all those scenarios from taking place.
A quote comes to mind, "If you think safety training is expensive, try and accident"
By monitoring the accidents and incidents in the workplace. This is why a good incident investigation procedures is needed. Simply put, the role of safety training is to reduce the risks and hazards in the workplace, if the safety training is effective, you will have less accidents and incidents taking place.
Effective hazard identifications and risk assessments done one or twice a year could shed light on unsafe procedures, either produced by poor safety training or lack thereof.
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) is a juristic person - that is an entity given a legal personality by the law. The South African Qualifications Authority Board is a body of 12 members appointed by the Minister of Higher Education and Training.
In short, SAQA must develop and implement policy and criteria, after consultation with the QCs for the development, registration and publication of qualifications and part-qualifications.
In short, they decided what exactly must be covered in a course/s for a training company to award an individual with a competency certificate.
The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) is a comprehensive system approved by the Minister for the classification, registration, publication and articulation of quality-assured national qualifications.
In short, the NQF is the set of principles and guidelines by which records of learner achievement are registered to enable national recognition of acquired skills and knowledge, thereby ensuring an integrated system that encourages life-long learning.
The Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) regulations were also published in 1998 and provided for the accreditation of Education and Training Quality Assurance bodies. These bodies are responsible for accrediting providers of education and training standards and qualifications registered on the NQF, monitoring provision, evaluating assessment and facilitating moderation across providers, and registering assessors.
With our head office situated in the Western Cape, a training center in Gauteng, and a host of facilitators located across South Africa, we're able to meet your safety training needs, no matter what city you're located in.
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