Philip de Witt When the City Joins the Raid: The Municipal By-law Layer Most Employers Miss The joint compliance blitz that has been sweeping South African workplaces since mid 2026 has quietly added a fourth partner: the municipality. When the City of Tshwane agreed in late July 2026 to run coordinated operations alongs Aug 1, 2026
Philip de Witt What a Blitz Inspection Actually Checks, and the Record That Survives It A blitz inspection is not a single-issue visit. When the Department of Employment and Labour arrives, often alongside Home Affairs, the police and the metro, it checks compliance across the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, the Jul 29, 2026
Philip de Witt The Duty South Africa Has Not Written Down: Psychosocial Risk and Section 8 There is no South African regulation that tells an employer to manage psychosocial risk. There is also no regulation that says they may ignore it. The duty sits where most unnamed duties sit, in the general duty in section 8 of th Jul 29, 2026
The state inspected its own buildings and failed 69 percent of them. What that means for your assurance model In the first half of the 2025/26 financial year, the Department of Employment and Labour inspected 187 of its own government facilities in the Free State. Sixty nine percent were non-compliant with the OHS Act. Nearly one in six was shut down or partially suspended. Jul 23, 2026
COIDA's quiet overhaul: a three year claims window, a rehabilitation duty, and PTSD now compensable Since 23 January 2026 the COIDA Amendment Act of 2022 has been in force, and four sets of regulations published on 6 March 2026 spell out exactly what employers must now do. The prescription period has tripled, a statutory rehabilitation duty now applies, and psychological injury is formally in scope. Jul 23, 2026
Philip de Witt The New COIDA Duty Employers Have Not Noticed: Rehabilitation and a Planned Return to Work Most of the coverage of the 2026 COIDA amendments has focused on bigger penalties and a longer claims window. The change that will actually reshape how an employer handles an injury is quieter and easy to miss: a new statutory dut Jul 17, 2026
Philip de Witt What ISO 45001:2027 Actually Changes for a South African Employer The first revision of ISO 45001 since 2018 has reached Draft International Standard stage, with the ballot open from mid June to 08 September 2026 and publication expected in 2027 on a three year transition. [1][2] For the first t Jul 17, 2026
Philip de Witt The South African OHS Compliance Calendar: Every Date That Matters Most compliance failures are not decisions. They are dates that passed while nobody was looking. This page carries every dated South African occupational health and safety obligation we are currently tracking, what happens if you Jul 14, 2026
Philip de Witt The 06 September 2026 Deadline: Two OHS Regulations Disappear On 06 September 2026 two familiar pieces of South African occupational health and safety law are repealed in their entirety. The Environmental Regulations for Workplaces, 1987 and the Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Regulations, 2003 f Jul 13, 2026
What a record low British death toll tells South African employers Britain has just recorded its lowest ever annual workplace death toll, 126 workers killed in 2025/26, less than a third of the figure four decades ago. The same regulator that drove those deaths down is now naming mental health an Jul 9, 2026
Philip de Witt Ten Thousand More Inspectors: What a Rebuilt Labour Inspectorate Means for South African Employers South Africa is rebuilding its labour inspectorate on a scale not seen since 1994. The government has committed to recruiting 10,000 additional permanent labour inspectors, announced by the President in the State of the Nation Add Jul 4, 2026
Philip de Witt When a Shutdown, a Deadline and a Blitz Land in the Same Week: An Employer's Calm Plan for End June 2026 Three separate pressures arrive in the same week at the end of June 2026. Anti-immigration movements have called a national shutdown for 30 Jun 2026 and set that date as a deadline for undocumented migrants to leave. [1] The Compe Jul 3, 2026