BEST PRACTICE
2019 SUMMARY
LEGISLATION SUMMARY
OF RELEVANT ACTS
ACT
APPLICATION
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW/HAVE
YOU MUST SUBMIT A PLAN AND YOUR PLAN MUST STATE
Employment Employing more than 50 Equity Act (EEA) employees or have an annual Addressing income of more than R10 • Objectives to be achieved for each year of the plan
disparity in million. • Affirmative action measures to be taken
employment • Numerical goal to achieve equal representation of under-represented groups
and • Timetable for each year of the duration of the plan (not longer than 5 or
demonstrating
shorter than 1)
this through the • Procedures used to monitor and evaluate the plan
submission and • Internal procedures to resolve any dispute about implementation of plan
implementation • Persons responsible for monitoring plan
of an EE plan
The Any Employer of staff and /or
Occupational contractors.
Health and
ARE YOU APPLYING ALL REGULATIONS
Physical conditions of the work environment are adequate, including:
Safety Act EMPLOYERS MUST ENSURE
(OHSA) •
•
They have a health and
water, certain prohibitions as well as the conditions of these facilities that
safety committee
•
•
•
•
•
forms part of the work environment
They have Information General health and safety matters or requirements set for the work
and training, and records environment, including:
of the committee •
Risk assessment
•
Thermal requirement, lighting, windows, ventilation, housekeeping,
precautions against flooding, fire precautions and means of egress
has been conducted Carrying out work that may expose any person at that workplace to noise at or
by employer or self- above the noise-rating limit, including:
employed person •
Duties of persons who may be exposed to noise
Personal protective •
Signage of noise areas
equipment and facilities •
Hearing protective equipment
are in place Carrying out work at a workplace which may expose any person to the intake of
Maintenance of control a hazardous chemical substance (HCS) at the workplace, including:
measures, equipment •
and facilities is being Carrying out work while using driven machinery at a workplace, including:
implemented •
Labelling, packaging, transporting and storage
Supervision of machinery, safeguarding of machinery, operation of
A process for the machinery, working on moving or electrically alive machinery, devices to start
recording and and stop machinery, reporting of incidents in connection with machinery,
investigation of incidents
•
Sanitary facilities, toilets, bathrooms, showers, dining facilities, drinking
notifiable substances
is in place All persons involved in construction work, including:
First-aid and emergency • Application for construction work permit
equipment and • Application for a permit to perform construction work, duties of client,
procedures are in place duties of designer, duties of principal contractor, contractor management
Information regarding and supervision of construction work, risk assessment for construction
regulations is available work, fall protection, structures, temporary works, excavation, demolition
work, tunnelling, scaffolding, suspended platforms, rope access, work
material hoists, bulk mixing plant, explosive actuated fastening device,
cranes, construction vehicles and mobile plant, electrical installations and
machinery on construction sites, use and temporary storage of flammable
liquids on construction sites, water environments, housekeeping and general
safeguarding on construction sites, stacking and storage on construction
sites, fire precautions on construction sites, construction employees’
facilities, construction health and safety technical committees, approved
inspection authorities
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