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Unmined Gold due to Safety Reasons

South Africa. “I had to do something drastically. It had to be something quick, radical and it will affect production’ said GOLD FIELDS CEO Nick Holland.

Product Liability in the Food Industry

Food manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and the entire food supply chain is exposed to both civil and criminal liability in terms of various South African laws and regulations. What is often overlooked is the criminal sanction in terms of local by-laws of the various municipalities.

In this article Janusz Luterek, Partner at Hahn & Hahn Attorneys takes a closer look at the extent of liability that may soon be changed by the Consumer Protection Act.

Lawrence Battiss

In this inaugural “Out of Africa” article, Ben Fouche talks to Lawrence Battiss about Enterprize Wide Risk Management and living in Australia. Lawrence and his family moved to Sidney in 2006 where he now works as Operations Safety Consultant.

Assessing the IFC’s Environmental, Health and Safety guidelines for large-scale mining projects

Undermining communities and the Environment: A review of the International Finance Corporation’s Environmental, Health, and Safety guidelines for mining.

This report by the Centre for Science in Public Participation; Oxfam International; WWF International assesses the International Financial Corporation’s Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) guidelines for large-scale mining projects.

According to Wikipedia, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to …

SANS 16001:2007 - The new South African HIV National Standard

HIV and AIDS workplace programmes have been implemented for between 10 to 20 years without any auditable and certifiable standards. Monitoring and evaluation of the implemented HIV programme has therefore been difficult.

HIV and AIDS interventions in the workplace were also seen to be “nice to have, but not essential” and short educational interventions were seen as effective methodologies to ‘get rid of the problem’.