Health and Safety Rep

2,050.00R

Description

The Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993, requires the employer to bring about and maintain, as far as reasonably practicable, a work environment that is safe and without risk to the health of the workers. This means that the employer must ensure that the workplace is free of hazardous substances, such as benzene, chlorine and micro organisms, articles, equipment, processes, etc. that may cause injury, damage or disease. Where this is not possible, the employer must inform workers of these dangers, how they may be prevented, and how to work safely, and provide other protective measures for a safe workplace.
However, it is not expected of the employer to take sole responsibility for health and safety. The Act is based on the principle that dangers in the workplace must be addressed by communication and cooperation between the workers and the employer. The workers and the employer must share the responsibility for health and safety in the workplace. Both parties must pro-actively identify dangers and develop control measures to make the workplace safe. In this way, the employer and the workers
are involved in a system where health and safety representatives may inspect the workplace regularly and then report to a health and safety committee, who in turn may submit recommendations to the employer.
To ensure that this system works, every worker must know his or her rights and duties as contained in the Act.

What Will I Learn?

  • Delegates will be able to:
  • Identify potential hazards which may be present while work is being done, something is being
  • produced, processed, used, stored or transported, and any equipment is being used
  • • Establish the precautionary measures that are necessary to protect his or her workers against the
  • identified hazards and provide the means to implement these precautionary measures
  • Provide the necessary information, instructions, training and supervision while keeping the extent
  • of workers’ competence in mind. In other words, what they may do and may not do
  • Not permit anyone to carry on with any task unless the necessary precautionary measures have
  • been taken
  • Take steps to ensure that every person under his or her control complies with the requirements of
  • the act
  • Enforce the necessary control measures in the interest of health and safety
  • See to it that the work being done and the equipment used, is under the general supervision of a
  • worker who has been trained to understand the hazards associated with the work
  • Such a worker must ensure that the precautionary measures are implemented and maintained.
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Description

The employer must provide and maintain all the equipment that is necessary to do the work, and all the systems according to which work must be done, in a condition that will not affect the health and safety of workers. Before personal protective equipment may be used, the employer must first try to remove or reduce any danger to the health and safety of his workers. Only when this is not practicable, should personal protective equipment be used. The employer must take measures to protect his or her workers’ health and safety against hazards that may result from the production, processing, use, handling, storage or transportation of articles or substances, in other words, anything that workers may come into contact with at work. This course teaches you everything an employee and employer should know about Health and Safety in the workplace.

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