TMG Digital reports that inspections carried out by the Department of Labour at public health care sector facilities have uncovered shocking non-compliance when it comes workplace safety and hazardous biological agents.  

Speaking at a Hazardous Biological Agents (HBA) Seminar in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, Chief Inspector Tibor Szana indicated that the results of inspections conducted in the public health care sector presented gross levels of non-compliance.  The results of 407 inspections conducted in all nine provinces in the public health care sector in 2014/2015 showed that only 91 facilities complied, while 316 did not.  In 2016 another inspection was conducted.  The Eastern Cape improved to 67% but Gauteng Province and Limpopo continued on their downward trend and noncompliance at zero percent respectively.  Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal also decreased their compliance level.

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