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IOPSA’s FEM health and safety grant
The Institute of Plumbing South Africa (IOPSA) sets out to achieve the best for the plumbing industry
and strives to share the rules and regulations in a simplified and straightforward manner.
By IOPSA
Its business operations are essentially confined to the insurance of
employers against their liabilities under the Compensation for Occupational
Injuries and Diseases Act of 1993. Over the past year, IOPSA
has achieved the following through the use of the FEM grant:
OHS videos
These videos were created for easy reference and understanding of
different topics within health and safety. IOPSA has worked on the following
topics, which will be issued to its members and the industry as a whole:
1. Deep excavations
2. Lifting and carrying
3. PPE
4. Tool safety
5. Working at height.
Workshops and webinars
• Tool box talk webinars every Tuesday (free for IOPSA
members)
• Health and safety webinars
• IOPSA plumbers evening presentations
• Bosses lunch talks on safety.
For the upcoming year, IOPSA will be improving and
expanding the programme to add more vale to its members.
IOPSA will be continuing the weekly free webinars for its
members, as well as including some exciting new additions,
such as a FEM section on the plumber’s app where IOPSA
members will have access to safety checklists for each
task, as well as vehicle checklists that can automatically be
sent to direct managers once completed.
For more information on the health
and safety services that IOPSA offers,
feel free to contact the national office on
+27 (0) 11 454 0025. PA
The Federated Employers’ Mutual Assurance Company (FEM) was
established in 1936 as a mutual insurer and on the introduction of
the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1941, was granted a licence
to continue to transact workmen’s compensation insurance for the
building industry.