MBAWC hosts seminar seeking to reduce number of accidents on building sites

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Deon Bester, occupational health and safety manager at the Master Builders Association of the Western Cape (MBAWC), says: “These figures are unacceptably high. We should be striving for zero fatalities and zero harm. Based on my experience, education can go a long way towards eliminating accidents and achieving this target.”

Variety of health and safety-related topics

To this end, the MBAWC will be hosting a seminar in June 2018 for mid-level management from Western Cape construction companies where industry experts will deliver talks on a variety of health and safety-related topics such as:

• COIDA (Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act): The facts,
• Ethics in health and safety,
• Scaffolding: What you thought you knew but don’t,
• Occupational risk exposure profiles: Why they need to be done properly,
• The science of human behaviour in respect to health and safety, and
• Unpacking Section 37 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

The seminar, set to take place at Belmont Square, is open to both MBAWC members and non-members.