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ANA reports that the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) advised last week that about 500 occupational health and safety (OHS) inspectors were to be hired.
Chief inspector Tibor Szana said the department was on the verge of employing 500 OHS inspectors in a move that would bring major change in the workplaces. This would enable the DEL to broaden its scope of work by also focusing on the small, medium and micro enterprise and the informal sector. “In the next 10 years, health and hygiene will never be the same. We are clear what we are about to do. When we look back this will be a major turning point. We will be leveraging the use of technologies to fulfil our objectives,” Szana said on the first day of the department’s occupational health and safety conference on Wednesday last week. He added: “We are doing all this to prepare for challenges that will be posed by the fourth industrial revolution.” The conference was held in Kempton Park and ended on Thursday.
- The original of this report appeared on page 19 of Business Report of 26 July 2019
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