GENERAL

The purpose of this e-book guide is to provide guidance to users who need to put into place or oversee health and safety arrangements within their organisation and describes this using the ‘Plan, Do, Check and Act’ approach.

This e-book guide is provided in co-operation with MAKROSAFE Holdings (Pty) Ltd and is provided to all users free of charge.

WHO NEEDS TO READ THIS?

This e-book guide is intended for all H&S representatives, persons and practitioners who need to put into place or oversee health and safety systems and processes within their organisation.

WHY IS THIS E-BOOK GUIDE IMPORTANT?

This e-book guide is important because it provides comprehensive advice for implementing a framework to help you manage health and safety effectively in a way that your workplace can tailor to its own working activities, patterns and environment. In doing so, it emphasizes the importance of health and safety management as an integral part of general good management rather than as a separate entity.

BASIC E-BOOK GUIDE CONTENTS

This basic e-book guide includes the following:

The ‘PLAN, DO, CHECK, ACT’ approach to health and safety implementation and management.

Core elements when managing health and safety, including legal duties and health and safety management systems.

Leadership and management of health and safety.

Health and safety in your organisation, including employee consultation and involvement.

Determining your policy, including key actions in effective policy development and planning.

Profiling your organisation’s health and safety risks and assessing the level of risk in your organisation.

Health surveillance.

Key actions in supervising for health and safety effectively.

Key actions in managing contractors effectively.

Competence and key actions in capability and effective health and safety training.

Implementing your plan and key actions in effective implementation of your plan.

Measuring performance and key actions in effective performance measurement.

Investigating accidents and incidents and key actions in effective accident/incident investigation.

BENEFITS OF THIS E-BOOK GUIDE

By reading this e-book guide a person will gain:

An understanding of the core elements of health and safety management and how they can be integrated into the way you run the rest of your business.

An understanding of what to look out for when planning, implementing and managing health and safety.

An understanding of delivering effective health and safety plans and procedures when putting into place or overseeing an organization’s health and safety.

A useful list of resources on health and safety.

An understanding of the ‘PLAN, DO, CHECK, ACT’ approach to health and safety.