{"id":33446,"date":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=9f87320639414c94ad8b7ba4e4bd0e6f"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","slug":"nxesi-to-launch-national-ohs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/nxesi-to-launch-national-ohs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nxesi to launch national OHS report"},"content":{"rendered":"
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi will on Friday launch a report on the state of the South African Occupational Health and Safety (OHS).<\/P>
The report will be launched during a webinar under the theme, \u2018A new beginning\u2019.<\/P>
The launch of the report is a project commissioned jointly by the International Labour Organization and the Department of Employment and Labour, and focuses on the profile of Occupational Health and Safety in workplaces.<\/P>
The report provides a historical analysis of OHS in South Africa.<\/P>
It contains a number of key themes and insights that came out of the confidential, semi-structured in-depth interviews with 34 purposefully selected participants.<\/P>
Themes identified in the interview responses include COVID-19 opportunities; enforcement of legislation; poor compliance and OHS committees; gender and the informal sector; complex legislation; poor reporting yet increasing claims and lack of awareness; partnerships and human resources challenges for inspection, and better enforcement in the mines.<\/P>
Speakers from organised business and labour will also be part of the webinar. <\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi will on Friday launch a report on the state of the South African Occupational Health and Safety (OHS).The report will be launched during a webinar under the theme, \u2018A new beginning\u2019.The launch of the report i…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n