Philip de Witt Heat Is a Physical Agent, Not the Weather: The Duty That Landed on 6 September Most South African employers think of heat as a comfort complaint, not a legal duty. That is now the wrong way round. Since 06 September 2026 the Physical Agents Regulations 2024 have stood alone, and they name heat and cold as ph Aug 12, 2026 Insights
Philip de Witt The OHS Amendment Bill Everyone Calls New Has Been Waiting Since 2020 If you have read that a new Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Bill is open for public comment in 2026 and that you must respond, the headline is out of date. The Bill being described is the Occupational Health and Safety Am Aug 12, 2026 Insights
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 Insights
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 Insights
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 Insights
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 Insights
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 Insights
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 Insights
Philip de Witt What ISO 45001:2027 Actually Changes for a South African Employer The first revision of ISO 45001 since 2018 has been through its Draft International Standard ballot, which ran from mid-June 2026 for twelve weeks and closed on 09 September 2026. The result has not yet been recorded: ISO still ex Jul 17, 2026 Insights
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 Insights
Philip de Witt Two OHS Regulations Were Repealed on 06 September 2026. Here Is What Replaced Them On 06 September 2026 two familiar pieces of South African occupational health and safety law were repealed in their entirety, and the Physical Agents Regulations 2024 and Noise Exposure Regulations 2024 now stand alone. Jul 13, 2026 Insights
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 Insights