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This presentation provides serves to help those people in the process of preparing and delivering site
inductions

It is essential that all personnel receive an appropriate site induction before they commence work on
any site.

The site induction communicates essential information regarding the site, the working methods and
health and safety management.

All attendees of the site induction are required to sign a register to confirm their attendance and
their agreement to abide by the principal contractor’s policies, procedures and rules and to follow
the agreed method of working.

SITE INDUCTION PRESENTATION

THAP3LOM GENERAL TRADING

Site operating hours are:

Monday—Friday _______am to _____ pm

Saturday ______am to ______pm

Anyone wishing to work outside these hours must get permission from the site manager of the
principal contractor ABC Construction prior to extended working.

•All personnel are to sign in and out at the site office everyday -- a clock card/attendance register
system is also in operation for signing in and signing out. This is compulsory

•All site visitors are required to sign in/out using the visitors book in reception

•Be considerate and co-operative at all times

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Construction (Site) Manager : ______________________________________________________

Site Safety Supervisor : ______________________________________________________

First Aiders : ______________________________________________________

SHE Reps : ______________________________________________________

Safety Officer : ______________________________________________________

Please refer to the ‘Site ORGANOGRAM’ that has been placed upon the site notice board for further
details.
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WELFARE FACILITIES

The following welfare facilities are provided on site:

• Toilets with toilet paper

• Clean drinking water
• Sheltered eating area
• Waste bins
 First Aid

Please remember when using the canteen facilities to place all rubbish into the bins provided. This
will greatly with the housekeeping on site.

SITE RULES

All personnel must receive a site induction prior to commencing work on site. No induction, no work.

All site personnel must sign in and out of site -- by use of a clock card/ Attendance register.

This should be done individually and never on the behalf of other persons.

Appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is to be worn by all persons on site at all times.

Drugs and alcohol will not be tolerated on his site. Anyone found under the influence will be
disciplined and removed from site immediately.

No radios or other such musical equipment are permitted on this site.

The following site rules are to be adhered to at all times:

All food and drink is to be consumed within the prescribed welfare facilities compound. Use the
rubbish bins provided and be minded not to leave scraps of food as these could attract vermin.

The use of mobile phones is not permitted on this site, except within the site offices and canteen.
Anyone found using a mobile phone on site will be disciplined and removed from site immediately.

Keep all areas of the site tidy and free from discarded materials. A yellow card/red card scheme is in
operation on this site.

Ensure mechanical and electrical equipment is stored in the metal site compound containers at the
end of each day.

Inform site management immediately should you discover any hazardous materials or activity.

This is a no smoking site. Smoke only in designated smoking areas.

Do not interfere with or remove any signage, fencing or dust screens without expressed permission.

Do not interfere with existing water or electric services which may become exposed during
construction.

Do not interfere with any scaffolding or access equipment. Only suitably qualified persons, with
expressed written permission are permitted to assemble, alter and dissemble such equipment.
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Ensure that all materials brought onto the site are handled, stored and disposed of in a safe manner.

Only suitable trained employees are permitted to use the plant and equipment on the site. Sub-
contractors are to provide their own plant and equipment at all times.

Operatives who are required to erect, alter or dismantle scaffold towers must have suitable training.

Persons undertaking inspection and approval of scaffolding must be formally qualified to do so.
Evidence of training certificates must be retained on site.

Misuse of equipment or unsafe practices will not be tolerated.

Anyone found doing this or permitting this will be subject to disciplinary action.

No work activities will be permitted to commence until a suitable risk assessment and method
statement has been submitted to (and agreed with) the principal contractor.

All employees must at all times:

 Promote Health and Safety

 Promote a culture of health and safety
 Identify and report any unsafe health and safety practices
 Eliminate, reduce and control risks relating to H&S.

Management and all employees must attend and adhere to all H&S procedures and rules at all times.

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

Any persons caught in possession of or under the influence of drugs and alcohol will be removed
from site.

If you are on drugs for any medical reason, please inform your supervisor at once

NO HORSEPLAY

No fighting and no horseplay is allowed on site and could lead to immediate dismissal.

SITE HAZARDS

Significant Hazards

Significant hazards on this site currently include:

• Public Traffic
• Construction vehicles and plant movements
• Incorrect traffic equipment and signage
• Working at night
• Public unrests
• Untrained traffic controllers

SITE HOUSEKEEPING
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Always ensure that your work area is tidy and free from any rubbish.

A waste compound is provided onsite for the orderly disposal of waste materials.

A site recycling compound is also provided -- please make full use of this facility.

This site operates a yellow card/red card scheme -- clean up your work area. Rubbish is a hazard --
contractors not cleaning up during and after their work will be issued with warnings. Any cleaning
costs incurred by principal contractors having to tidy up after contractors will be passed on to the
offending contractor.

SIGNS ON SITE

Always comply with safety signage. If you are not sure of the signage meaning, ASK your supervisor.

Read the labels on containers before using any substance

Use any safety precautions required.

FIRST AID

• The appointed first aiders on this site are:

 ___________________________
 ___________________________

• Each of these people is suitably trained and possesses a current first aid certificate

• This site has first aid boxes located in the site office and by the stairwell on floor level

ACCIDENT REPORTING

• All accidents are to be logged in the accident book

• The accident book is located in the site office

• Sub-contractors who posses their own accident book must also enter all accidents into the site
accident book

• Any accidents/incidents that are reportable under DoL are to be reported immediately to the site
safety officer, Lebohang Chaka

EMERGENCY EVACUATION AND FIRE SAFETY

Our site has a specific emergency plan and evacuation procedure in place. There are also set times
when fire and evacuation alarms will be tested. Emergency drills will be conducted on a regular
basis. Know your firefighting equipment and its location.

Should it become necessary to evacuate plant/ site or certain areas, remember the following:

 Wait to be told to evacuate, unless the emergency is in your immediate area

 Leave your work area in an orderly manner, Do not panic, DO NOT RUN
 Do not block any escape route, stairs or doors, the emergency response team may need to
use them
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 Report to the emergency assembly point where the supervisor / emergency coordinator can
conduct roll call to ensure nobody is missing, this is why its important to inform your
supervisor when you leave your workplace for whatever reason, toilet or to buy food etc.
 Do not linger at the scene of the emergency, you will only be in the way of the emergency
response team.
 Do not go back to your work area until you are instructed to do so.
 Do not leave the emergency assembly point and wander around
 When evacuating from any emergency, do not go back for tools, personal belongings, etc.

MANUAL HANDLING

 Manual handling injuries cause more lost time at work than any other single work-related
cause. This are normally back injuries but also include muscle strains and sprains, hand and
foot injuries
 There are a number of mechanical aids available to reduce the amount of manual handling
on site, these should be used wherever practicable e.g. wheelbarrows, kerb trolley manhole
cover/ring trolley etc
 No person should attempt to lift any object they are not comfortable with, (-if you complain
of a wheelbarrow load, then you clearly in the wrong industry)
 Loads that are bulky, heavy, unwieldly or are to be carried over a long distance require an
assessment to be carried out and precautions put in place to minimise risks of injuries
 Where possible, larger loads should be broken down into smaller loads and/or team lifting
should be considered, but with caution.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

The employers should provide necessary PPE free of charge.

Look after your PPE and always wear it when and where required

Please ask your supervisor to supply you with any additional PPE you might require to perform your
task.

PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

You are required to work safely and use plant and equipment correctly…they are your responsibility.

 Only trained, certified and authorised personnel will be permitted to operate driver
operated plant.
 This may include but not limited to: TLBs, Tipper trucks, Excavators Rollers, Pavers, Milling
machines, Front end loaders, Road sweepers, water trucks etc.
 All plant operators will be required to produce evidence of their training before being given
authorization to operate any given item of plant.
 Plant operators will be required to have suitable evidence of competence and are aware of
the site requirements/hazards eg. Traffic route, dangerous slopes, High voltage cables etc.
 Plant operators must not take passengers.
 Ensure that where vehicles are provided with seat belts, seat belts are used.

VEHICLES ON SITE
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 Be aware of plant operating near you

 Traffic management plan is displayed in the site office Notice board
 Parking is only allowed in the designated areas

DISOBEDIENCE

Any person who fails to obey and order given to him/her for the observance of the regulations or in
the interests of health & safety by any person lawfully authorised to do so, shall be guilty of an
offence.

Section 8

General duties of employers to their employees

(1) Every employer shall provide and maintain, as far as is reasonably practicable, a working
environment that is safe and without risk to the health of his employees.

(2) Without derogating from the generality of an employer's duties under subsection (1), the
matters to which those duties refer include in particular-

(a) the provision and maintenance of systems of work, plant and machinery that, as far as is
reasonably practicable, are safe and without risks to health;

(b) taking such steps as may be reasonably practicable to eliminate or mitigate any hazard or
potential hazard to the safety or health of employees, before resorting to personal protective
equipment;

(c) making arrangements for ensuring, as far as is reasonably practicable, the safety and
absence of risks to health in connection with the production, processing, use, handling, storage or
transport of articles or substances;

(d) establishing, as far as is reasonably practicable, what hazards to the health or safety of
persons are attached to any work which is performed, any article or substance which is produced,
processed, used, handled, stored or transported and any plant or machinery which is used in
his business, and he shall, as far as is reasonably practicable, further establish what precautionary
measures should be taken with respect to such work, article, substance, plant or machinery in order
to protect the health and safety of persons, and he shall provide the necessary means to apply such
precautionary measures;

(e) providing such information, instructions, training and supervision as may be necessary to
ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees;

(f) as far as is reasonably practicable, not permitting any employee to do any work or to
produce, process, use, handle, store or transport any article or substance or to operate any plant or
machinery, unless the precautionary measures contemplated in paragraphs (b) and (d), or any other
precautionary measures which may be prescribed, have been taken;

(g) taking all necessary measures to ensure that tire requirements of this Act are complied with
by every person in his employment or on premises under his control where plant or machinery is
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(h) enforcing such measures as may be necessary in the interest of health and safety;

(i) ensuring that work is performed and that plant or machinery is used under the general
supervision of a person trained to understand the hazards associated with it and who have the
authority to ensure that precautionary measures taken by the employer are implemented; and

(j) causing all employees to be informed regarding the scope of their authority as contemplated
in section 37 (1) (b).

Section 9

General duties of employers and self-employed persons to persons other than their employees

(1) Every employer shall conduct his undertaking in such a manner as to ensure, as far as is
reasonably practicable, that persons other than those in his employment who may be directly
affected by his activities are not thereby exposed to hazards to their health or safety.

(2) Every self-employed person shall conduct his undertaking in such a manner as to ensure, as
far as is reasonably practicable, that he and other persons who may be directly affected by his
activities are not thereby exposed to hazards to their health or safety.

13. Duty to inform

Without derogating from any specific duty imposed on an employer by this Act, every employer
shall-

(a) as far as is reasonably practicable, cause every employee to be made conversant with the
hazards to his health and safety attached to any work which he has to perform, any article or
substance which he has to produce, process, use, handle, store or transport and any plant or
machinery which he is required or permitted to use, as well as with the precautionary measures
which should be taken and observed with respect to those hazards;

(b) inform the health and safety representatives concerned beforehand of inspections,
investigations or formal inquiries of which he has been notified by an inspector, and of any
application for exemption made by him in terms of section 40; and

(c) inform a health and safety representative as soon as reasonably practicable of the
occurrence of an incident in the workplace or section of the workplace for which such representative
has been designated.

14. General duties of employees at work

Every employee shall at work-

(a) take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be
affected by his acts or omissions;

(b) as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by this
Act, co-operate with such employer or person to enable that duty or requirement to be performed
or complied with;
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(c) carry out any lawful order given to him, and obey the health and safety rules and procedures
laid down by his employer or by anyone authorized thereto by his employer, in the interest of health
or safety;

(d) if any situation which is unsafe or unhealthy comes to his attention, as soon as practicable
report such situation to his employer or to the health and safety representative for his workplace or
section thereof, as the case may be, who shall report it to the employer; and

(e) if he is involved in any incident which may affect his health or which has caused an injury to
himself, report such incident to his employer or to anyone authorized thereto by the employer, or to
his health and safety representative, as soon as practicable but not later than the end of the
particular shift during which the incident occurred, unless the circumstances were such that the
reporting of the incident was not possible, in which case he shall report the incident as soon as
practicable thereafter.

Thank you

Any questions?

Please remember to study the notice board.

You must successfully complete the brief induction assessment and sign the induction attendance
register before commencing work.