General industry Health, safety and environmental legislation will be overwhelming to many manufacturers and retail companies. Employers must be proactive about employee health & safety and sustainability of the environment.

Without a focus on Health & safety, manufacturers can place their employees at risk and should one of them sustain an article 24 injury, the department of labour will visit the plant, and do an enforcement audit on the operations. With Covid-19 compliance a key issue now, the Department of Labour or Health can also do an unannounced visit at any plant or shop.

Employers can face expensive property damage, fines, workers compensation, regulatory notices or fines, recovery costs, and damage to their reputation from workplace incidents, and non-compliances.  Sansafe specializes in food manufacturing environments, so we are well versed with food safety, distribution safety and FMCG, as overlapping systems to HSE.  Our Health & Safety management systems are designed to keep the process of Health & Safety in a company in a user-friendly format, but allow for the nuances of local culture, client expectations, legislation & best practices.

As regulatory requirements and social expectations continually evolve, with the new complication of Covid-19 global & local regulatory rules, many organizations struggle to meet their ongoing obligations thoroughly and cost-effectively.

We improve the effectiveness of management systems and minimize disruption by working closely with clients to reduce unnecessary complexity and supply them with expertise in our field, to enable effective decisions, and a decrease in liability, while keeping employees working in a safe working environment.

Compliance with HSE environmental, health and safety and social issues is an ongoing commitment that needs to be embedded into the strategic management of business risk and visible leadership commitment and behaviors, as well as in day-to-day management systems of the operation.

We follow a proactive hazard approach, risk assessment and control procedure to prevent accidents. Our systems focus on health & safety ownership of all employees, and we use our Behavior based safety programme to great effect where implemented.

We service several corporate food manufacturing groups and Global groups in South Africa & also in Africa, where we either:

  • Act as HSE specialist consultants to assist and mentor internal safety personnel,
  • Or we work independently, where we draft, implement and maintain comprehensive Health, Safety and Environment systems while working one day a week, and with virtual assistance, where we take the role as coordinators between the various stakeholders and interested parties electronically at a much lower monthly cost than hiring a full time SHE specialist, with a proven track record of effectiveness.

We first do a legal compliance and risk audit when we start working in a company, establishing the gaps in the existing systems. We then prepare a comprehensive HSE system action plan and progress tracker, which we update information and documents continuously.

Business unit managers & corporate HSE managers will have updated information on hand to make decisions when needed.

We are proficient in several electronic systems e.g. SAP, Achiever Plus, Isometrix, Tempo, and Flow centric, and where possible we run a dual system of hard copies and electronic share drive systems.

Manufacturing health, safety and environment is important to prevent or lessen the risk of workplace injury, illness, and death, and keep the supply chain intact.

With health & safety at SANSAFE it is our mantra to supports our continued journey towards zero harm and a zero LTIR/DIFR (Loss time injury rate/Disabling injury frequency rate)

Services include:

  • Legal Compliance Audits
  • Consulting
  • Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments
  • Compliance obligation updating service
  • BBS – Behaviour based safety implementation
  • SHE Implementation system NOSA, integrated, ISO 45001:2018, IRCA
  • Legal H & S documentation compilation
  • Incident Investigations
  • Training