5 days – NQF Level 5

Legal compliance is the first step towards implementing a successful Health and Safety Management System. The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS Act) has many requirements that organisations need to adhere to.

Empowering yourself with the know-how of the OHS Act and Regulations and auditing your site ensures that you are pro-actively identifying non-compliances to the law.

Being able to perform self-audits on a regular basis creates an ideal mechanism through which to enforce continual improvement.

This course gives you the tools to do internal OHSAct legal compliance audits and therefore minimizing potential warnings, fines and other penalties.

Target Group

• OHS Act and OHSAS 18001 auditors-in-training
• OHS Act auditors without a formal auditors qualification
• SHEQ and Risk Managers
• Department of Labour Inspectors

Pre-Requisites

You must have completed any one of the following courses:

• 1 day OHSAS 18001
• OHS Act Awareness course
• 3 day OHSAS 18001 Implementation course.

A minimum of 1 year working experience is required.

Course Objectives

To equip delegates with OHS Act specific knowledge and skill towards becoming a lead auditor within the Health & Safety auditing discipline.

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Identify the audit process as per ISO19011 – including opening and closing meetings; pre-site visit requirements; audit activities during the audit, communication, team players, etc.
• Discuss audit protocol.
• Discuss auditor qualifications and experience.
• Discuss certification bodies – locally and globally.
• Discuss the OHS Act and regulations content from an auditing point of view.
• Generate legal compliance audit questions.
• Generate audit non-conformances.
• Classify audit non-conformances under the correct legal compliance heading/title.
• Compile a legal compliance non-conformance matrix.
• Design and develop a legal compliance audit report according to international protocol & electronically.
• Perform a partial audit of an actual site in the presence of a lead auditor.

Learning Material

Delegates will use the OHS Act & Regulations as well as the course manual. An electronic CD will be issued to each learner.

Language

This course is presented in the English language.

Course Requirements

It is a strong recommendation to bring a laptop with to the course to use during the week.

Please bring the following compulsory PPE for the site visit on the Thursday of the course: Safety shoes, comfortable jeans and shirt/t-shirt, overcoat, hardhat, safety glasses/goggles, hearing protection and other PPE as presumed necessary for the excursion.

Certification & Assignment

An assessment is included. On successful completion, the delegate will be issued with a Certificate of Competence.

Course Dates & Costs

Please refer to the Advantage ACT Course Schedule.

Venue

Advantage ACT Training Centre Pretoria

Contact

Please contact us on 012 809 4210/1 or sheq {at} advantageact.co(.)za

Advantage ACT supplies each delegate with morning & afternoon tea/coffee, LIGHT lunch and filtered water. Should you have requirements beyond what we provide, kindly make sure you make provision accordingly.