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Understanding safety
compliance on site
Ensuring safety on site for all, especially while working at
heights, should be top priority for all individuals and companies
responsible for implementation. But this is not always the case
as negligence and ignorance are common practises.
By Ntsako Khosa
Constructions sites often fail to implement safety on site effectively.
V
isit any construction site and you prevent workers from doing their job
will find that most hired properly’ or ‘PPE can cause damage
contractors don’t normally use to equipment’.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or
Jaco Coetzer, operations director at
provider, says that these views are
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misconceptions. “People who complain are
those who don’t understand the
Occupational Health and Safety Act no. 85
have proper safety measures in place. There Riggers Steeplejacks and managing may be many reasons, such as, ‘the safety member at Altra Medical Productions, a “Section 8 of the Act, Construction
rules aren’t practical’, ‘shoes and hard hats safety training and consulting services Regulation 9, says that a Contractor must,
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of 1993 (OHS) and its regulations.