Health and Safety Bulletin Archive March 2010

5 tips to manage noise

If your employee is exposed, or exposes himself, to a noise at or above the noise-rating limit, he must obey any instructions you or someone you appoint gives him to minimise the damage to his hearing (Regulation 5, OHSA).

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Sexual harassment is a safety issue!

If you fail to protect an employee, i.e. fail to take the necessary steps to deal with sexual harassment, YOU can be charged with unfair discrimination on the grounds of sexual harassment (Section 60, EEA). This means that wherever you become aware of sexual harassment you should take the disciplinary steps needed without delay. Colliers Properties didn’t, and look what happened to them…

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Trucks slam into construction workers… TWICE!

I realise everyone’s in a flurry to ensure everything’s ready for June this year, including the new alterations and improvements to our national roads. The egg we South Africans will have on our collective face if some tourist disappears down a pothole isn’t an option. But, unlike Robespierre, the ends STILL don’t justify the means and losing countless lives now just so we can make some extra money in a few months is not acceptable.

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COID will bill YOU!

Nadia, my managing editor, emailed me last week, asking for some help on behalf of her colleague Teresa. Apparently, Teresa’s husband (who owns an engineering business), received a very official, very scary looking letter from the COID Fund, demanding an amount of almost R3 000.

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Is Ozzy Osbourne your health and safety example?

The story of Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a live bat at a concert has to be one of the most notorious stories in Rock ‘n Roll (and this is quite achievement for a music genre that literally delights in this kind of behaviour).

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