Do automotive suppliers in the IDZ need their own assessments?

Yes. Every employer must assess its own employees' exposure. Suppliers usually need noise surveys, chemical monitoring for paints, solvents or welding, and LEV tests.

How often must a spray booth be tested?

At intervals not exceeding 24 months under regulation 12(b) of the Regulations for Hazardous Chemical Agents, 2021.

Does repetitive assembly work need an ergonomics assessment?

Where it may cause musculoskeletal injury, yes. The Ergonomics Regulations, 2019 require the risk to be assessed and reduced.

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE IN EAST LONDON

East London's economy centres on vehicle assembly and the component suppliers of the East London industrial development zone, alongside the port, food processing and manufacturing in Buffalo City.

Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene surveys for these employers: spray booth and LEV tests, isocyanate and solvent monitoring, welding fume monitoring, noise surveys and ergonomics assessments.

REACH OUT

Worker cutting steel with an angle grinder as sparks fly

WHERE WE WORK AROUND EAST LONDON

East London

East London IDZ and West Bank

Wilsonia and Arcadia

Mdantsane

Qonce (King William's Town)

Dimbaza

Vehicle assembly and component manufacturing in the East London IDZ and West Bank: paint shops, body shops, presses and assembly lines.

Food and beverage processing, including dairy and fruit: noise, cold rooms and cleaning chemicals.

Port and logistics: noise, diesel exhaust and manual handling.

Textiles, plastics and general manufacturing in Wilsonia and Arcadia.

Hospitals and government buildings: biological agents, indoor air quality and asbestos inventories.

THE HAZARDS WE MEASURE HERE

Isocyanates and solvents from spray painting, welding fume, noise from presses and body shops, metalworking fluid mist, cold in food plants, and repetitive work on assembly lines.

Interior of a large industrial warehouse with overhead cranes

INDUSTRIES WE SERVE

Foundry workers in protective gear pouring molten metal

WHY QUALITAS

Qualitas Occupational Consulting is a Department of Employment and Labour Approved Inspection Authority (AIA) and a SANAS-accredited (ISO/IEC 17020) inspection body for asbestos, lead, noise and hazardous chemical agents, and applies the same quality system to all its assessments.

Every assessment is led by Christo de Wet, an occupational hygienist registered with the Southern African Institute for Occupational Hygiene (SAIOH), with 15 years of experience.

We work nationwide, and Qualitas has also carried out assessments in Botswana and Kazakhstan. Travel is quoted upfront.

You receive a professional, audit-ready report that stands up to inspection by the Department of Employment and Labour.