Tips, tools and practical advice to easily implement health and safety in your workplace.

• Practical health and safety advice • Step-by-step instructions
• 31 Checklists • 12 Agendas, forms and questionnaires
• 30 Appointment letters, contracts and agreements
• Always up-to-date •

 More then 12 000 copies sold!

 

 

Giant health and safety mistakes that 2 out of 3 companies make every year

Dear Reader 

Do you make these mistakes? 

• You think because you trained your employees, they are following your health and safety procedures… 88% of accidents are caused by unsafe acts of workers.
• You’re safe from prosecution because the Department of Labour doesn’t check compliance with the OHS Act… recently 10 949 notices were served for contraventions in health and safety requirements - 1230 companies had to stop production.
• Productivity is more important than health and safety. The insured cost to uninsured cost ratio is R1: R53 per incident. How much profit do you need to make to absorb an uninsured incident cost of R53 million? 

If you think health and safety isn’t important in your company, think again. The Department of Labour is clamping down and doing more workplace inspections. Are you sure your company would pass a health and safety inspection? 

Are you prepared to have your company shut down for non-compliance? 

We have a solution to all of your health and safety problems. It’s not going to confuse you, give you legal jargon or thousands of pages of small text. It’s going to give you straight forward actionable advice to solve all of your health and safety worries. 

Here’s the solution to your health and safety problems. The new Health & Safety Advisor loose leaf service will help you:  

• Recognise safety hazards without leaving your desk
• Implement effective safety procedures and regulations
• Prevent accidents before they happen
• Make sure you pass your health and safety inspection with flying colours
• Plus, save you thousands, maybe millions, of rands.

We’ve done all the hard work for you. By following our step-by-step instructions, relevant checklists, sample forms, handy tips and suggestions you can be rest assured you’re 100% health and safety compliant. 

Order the Health & Safety Advisor today, and we’ll send it to you to review for free, for 14 days. What could be more fair? You pay nothing upfront. Simply complete the order form and I’ll have the book couriered to you.  

Take 14 days to read through the handbook. If, after 14 days you decide it’s not for you, you can send it back to us and we’ll forget about the bill!  

Yours Sincerely  

Nadia Smith-Pisanti
Managing Editor, Health & Safety Advisor

PS: If you order I’ll also send you a free health and safety newsletter, plus a CD containing the Essential Health & Safety Toolkit and copies of the OHS and COID Act's.
 

  

Everything you need to know about health and safety

The Health & Safety Advisor is a unique, loose leaf service that will assist you with practical advice, solutions and tips to avoid costly penalties, prevent incidents before they happen and make sure you implement health and safety with minimal hassle and cost.

Why you can’t be without the Health & Safety Advisor:

- This 500-page loose-leaf binder contains a comprehensive collection of important checklists, easy-to-understand examples and step-by-step instructions
- You will learn how to pass your next health and safety inspection with flying colours
- Regular updates ensure your handbook is always 100% up to date
- Receive a free Health & Safety email Bulletin
- Health & Safety Help Desk: Our Health and Safety Consultant will answer your questions by email within 72 hours
- You can try the Health & Safety Advisor for a free 14-day trial period – no money upfront
  

What our readers have to say

These are extracts from letters we’ve received from readers of our practical handbooks:

The Health & Safety Advisor help us reduce the amount of time required when doing incident investigations and simplified our ‘on-site’ registers.
C. Castle

We recently bought the Health & Safety Advisor and I have used it extensively to start up the health and safety in our company. I’ve use the Policy, letters, notes on committees and responsibilities. Well worth the money.
J. Thom

The book is of great value and has added a vast value to my safety system. It’s easy to use and is a foundation of information.
D. Venter

User friendly and informative. I have used it as a successfully to resolve smoking issues on the premises.
H. Blomerus

It assists me with my training presentations and it’s very handy with complete checklists.
C. Broekman

I am truly impressed. I’ve been using the tips given in newsletters at my SHE meetings.
C. Sieber

 

7 reasons why you need the Health & Safety Advisor loose leaf service and take advantage of our free 14-day trial period

1. You’ll meet every health and safety law requirement and avoid hefty fines! Don’t get caught by the Department of Labour not complying with health and safety laws. Use the Health & Safety Advisor to make sure you comply with every legal requirement. Each section includes practical, actionable advice written in plain English with no legalese. Each topic is discussed in detail and has step-by step instructions, checklists, sample documents and templates and many immediately understandable examples. 

2. Save time by having the answers at your fingertips. You can make use of our health and safety expertise whenever you need it. It’s always at your disposal – simply lying on your desk. Don’t look for a solution yourself or risk making an expensive error – use the Health & Safety Advisor looseleaf. Use our expert’s knowledge to easily look up your problem and find a step-by-step solution, checklist, letter or template to solve your health and safety issue. 

3. The Draft National Health and Safety Bill is out – but we’ll keep you up to date. The Health & Safety Advisor loose leaf is constantly monitored and updated. Instead of buying a new book every time legislation changes, you’ll receive updates on a regular basis when any new health and safety amendments happen. You can be sure that – thanks to this looseleaf service – you won’t be surprised by any new health and safety regulation and your book will always be 100% up to date. All in the most cost-effective and easy way possible! 

4. Our experts will answer your health and safety questions. If you’ve subscribed to the Health & Safety Advisor looseleaf service, and have a question you can’t answer, send your questions to our experts. Simply email us your question and we’ll send you an answer within 72 hours.  

5. Keep up to date with the free health and safety tip. Every Tuesday we’ll email you the Health & Safety Bulletin. This email newsletter is part of your handbook and will give you tips, tools and strategies you can use to keep on top of health and safety in your workplace. 

6. You risk nothing —Try Health & Safety Advisor without spending a cent. You can use the Health & Safety Advisor loose leaf, free for 14 days. After these 14 days, you can continue using it by simply paying the invoice sent with the handbook. Or, you can return it to us and we’ll forget about the bill.  Simply order your copy

7. Receive these 2 extra gifts on cd:

• Essential Health & Safety Toolkit: 73 Sample letters, forms, procedures, checklists, and meeting agendas.
• Copies of the OHS and COID Act, including regulations so you can look up any legal jargon.

What’s included in Health & Safety Advisor?

Here is a sample of what you will find in your handbook:

•  Control measures you must put in place to prevent accidents
•  Accidents or incidents—step by step what you must do next
•  How to calculate how much compensation to pay—Must you pay any at all?
•  Reporting incidents/ accidents/ and near incidents: the different procedures.
•  How should you secure an area after an accident?
•  How do you claim from the workers compensation fund? Can everyone claim?
•  How to deal with absenteeism because of excessive sick leave
•  Medical checkups for employees: when, who, how often, documents you need.
•  257 Point checklist to ensure you comply with all the Construction Regulations
•  15 Strategies to get employees to bring a safety attitude to work
•  Risk assessment worksheets to make sure you’ve included everything
•  How to do risk assessment inspections
•  Ten-point checklist for emergency preparedness
•  Checklist: Health and safety requirements in the workplace
•  16 Safety signs you must display in your workplace
•  How to conduct a compliance health and safety audit
•  How to develop a Health and Safety policy
•  How to monitor and evaluate your health and safety programme
•  11 Legal duties of the employer
•  Health and safety representatives: responsibilities and duties
•  Duties of manufacturers and suppliers
•  Employees responsibilities: they have obligations as well
•  41 Sample nomination and appointment forms
•  OHS checklists and registers
•  And much more… 

About our experts

Meet the health and safety experts who contribute to Health & Safety Advisor

Christel Fouché:
Christel is managing director of Advantage A.C.T. (Pty) Ltd and has been involved in this specialised industry for over 20 years, assisting with issues of health and safety in industry and mining. She completed her MBA in health and safety through the University of Southern Queensland, is an accredited trainer (1104 and 1105) with City & Guilds. She also received her International Certificate in Training with merit.  She’s a qualified and accredited facilitator and assessor with the ET&DP SETA. She’s also a Lead Auditor in Health & Safety, Environment & Quality (SAATCA Lead Auditor for ISO14001 and OHSAS18001). She is a Lead Tutor for Moody International/IRCA on the ISO and OHSAS standards (ISO9001, ISO14001, OHSAS18001 and ISO27001) and is the chair of the SAATCA OHSAS18001 Scheme committee

Wilna Louw-Malan (B. Cur, OH, ROSProf, F.IoSM, SAATCA HSE 002)
Wilna is the General Manager of Edwilo Risk Consultants, a health safety and environmental consultancy business. She is a registered Occupational Safety Professional, Assessor for OSHAP PDB, Deputy President of the Institute of Safety Management, and a registered HSE Systems Auditor. 

Ray Strydom
Ray is currently a SHE Risk Management Consultant (specialising in construction) and administrator for six professional OHS bodies. He owns his own safety consultancy, is Executive Director of Safety First Association and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Safety Management (IoSM).

Richard Swift
Richard joined his father in the field of occupational health and safety eleven years ago. Within a few years, he had achieved a +95% average for risk management at three of his client's operations, culminating in receiving an internal award of "best of the best" for the highest score within the group of companies. 

Eric Swift
Eric has over 35 years experience in the field of occupational health and safety. He started a health and safety consultancy fourteen years ago and uses his experience to advise clients on the best way to achieve legal compliance. 

Nell Browne
A registered Occupational Health Practitioner, with 20 years experience in the occupational health and safety field. She has a Certificate in Medicine and Law (Cum Laude) and is registered with SAATCA as an OHSAS 18001 Senior auditor. She is registered with the ETDP SETA as a facilitator, assessor and moderator and regularly designs and presents OHS training. 

Hayleth Gunter
Hayleth is a Health and Safety and Risk Management Consultant with 25 years experience in the Risk Control field. He was previously the Regional Manager in the Johannesburg region for the National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA). Since 1989 he has provided a consulting service to industry locally and internationally, assisting companies to implement the requirements of current Health and Safety Legislation. 

Sven Marcus
Sven is an Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner with over 19 years health care experience. She has years experience in the occupational health industry, where she manages Wellness clinics for various companies. 

Stephanie Kruger
Stephanie is a registered occupational nurse practitioner, and started Soul Sister. Her aim is to integrate complementary health with allopathic medicine, by providing holistic care to the patient within the workplace, and assisting them in their own healing process. 

Anita De Wet
Anita has 16 years industry experience and is passionate about behavioural training. She is an affiliate of BST® (Behavioural Science Technologies), and is involved with the UNISA team busy compiling a curriculum for Behavioural Science. 

Michele Bowmer
Michele is a registered Occupational Safety Professional (ROSProF), and a Training Development Manager for IRCA Coastal (Pty) Ltd – South Eastern Division. She regularly conducts training for companies in Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay and Saldanha Bay.
 
Dr André Louw (M.B., CH. B., M. Fam. Med, D.O.H., M.B.A.)
Dr Louw is the managing director of LMM Occupational Health Inc., an occupational health consulting and service delivery entity. His main interests include designing and implementing occupational health risk management plans, designing and rolling out strategic HIV response programmes in industry and the management of disability in the workplace.

Carine van Onselen
Carine is currently an advocate in the Pretoria High Court. She has held positions as both a Group compliance Manager and SHEQ legal consultant and trainer. 
 

We’ll answer all of your health and safety questions 

If you have a problem and can’t find an answer in Health & Safety Advisor, simply send us an email. We’ll make sure one of our experts give you an answer. 

Question: I’ve spent a lot of money in the last year providing my employees with hard hats. They keep losing them and I suspect that the hats are being sold. Can I charge them for the cost of replacing the lost hard hats? 

Answer: You are allowed to recover the cost of lost or damaged safety equipment if, after a proper investigation that includes giving the employees a reasonable opportunity to state their case, it is found that they are responsible for the loss or damage. The deductions may not exceed a quarter of the employee’s wage/salary (Section 34 (2) (d), Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997). 

Question: My workers are complaining that their clothes get wet when they have to make deliveries on rainy days. Surely the employees must provide their own raincoats?
 

Answer: It’s your duty to provide employees with protective clothing if they are regularly required to work in the rain or other extremes of weather. You must balance the cost of providing the clothing against the possible drop in production that may result from colds and other infections 

The essential Health and Safety Toolkit you can’t be without!
 

Included with your Health & Safety Advisor is the Health & Safety Toolkit and copies of the OHS and COID Act's, including regulations. 

With the Health & Safety Toolkit you’ll have 73 sample letters, forms, procedures, checklists and meeting agendas at your finger tips. 

31 Checklists

Use these to ensure:

•  Your construction site meets all the construction regulations.
•  The DoL checklists: now you’ll know what they check before they arrive at your door.
•  Your Health and Safety Representatives are thoroughly checking your workplace for hazards. 

12 questionnaires, forms and agendas

Use the Health and Safety Committee Agenda, nomination and election forms, occupational health questionnaire, Safety test, Contractor Site Audit Sheet and other forms to make sure your templates and forms are 100% correct. 

30 Appointment letters, contracts and agreements  

From appointment letters for Health and Safety Officers, Site Managers, Health and Safety committee Chairperson to reporting incidents and a Personal Protective Equipment acknowledgement form, make sure your appointment letters are watertight. 

Copies of the OHS and COID Act's, including 22 regulations 

How to cut your health and safety training bill by 80%

Are health and safety training courses too expensive? 

Here’s an easy solution to all of your health and safety training costs. 

Training courses cost between R1 000-R3 000 per day. If you send 15 supervisors on a 2-day training course that’s R80 000 – and will they really remember everything they’ve learnt? 

With the Health & Safety Advisor they could have their own safety consultant on their bookshelf. It’s not like any other book available. It’s not just a summary of the Act or full of legal jargon that only lawyers understand. 

This is written in simple terms, with easy checklists and actionable advice. Next time there’s an accident in the workplace; your supervisor can quickly turn to the correct chapter and see exactly what he should do to comply with health and safety laws. 

Having employees who understand health and safety will: 

•  Reduce absenteeism
•  Reduce your staff turnover costs
•  Decrease your healthcare costs
•  Reduce your insurance premiums and compensation claims
•  Decrease accidents
•  Improve productivity 

Don’t take our word for it – order a copy of the Health & Safety Advisor loose leaf service and see for yourself how easy it is to understand. We’ll even offer you a 10% discount if you order more than 5 copies.
 

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