The Occupational Health and Safety Act ("OHSA") provides a
legislative framework supplementing an employer's common law duty to provide
reasonably healthy and safe conditions in the workplace. It further places
extensive legal duties on employees and users of machinery and makes major
inroads on employers' and employees' common law rights.
OHSA itself contains a number of provisions that impose fairly
general obligations with regard to health and safety. Far more detailed and
specific obligations can be found in the regulations published in terms of
OHSA. These include, inter alia, environmental, general safety, electrical
machinery, drilling machinery, electrical installation, asbestos, hazardous
chemicals substances and noise induced hearing loss.
The services offered by Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr within the field
of occupational health and safety law have been tailored to fit the individual
specifications of clients within the industrial, construction and mining
sectors.
