Do diamond tailings operations need dust monitoring?

Usually, yes. Crushing and screening kimberlite and handling dry tailings can release respirable dust and silica, and the plant's noise often needs zoning.

Do older government buildings in Kimberley need an asbestos inventory?

Where asbestos-containing materials are or may be present, yes. The Asbestos Abatement Regulations, 2020 require them to be identified and recorded by an asbestos inspection authority. Qualitas is a DEL AIA for asbestos.

How often must a hospital review its biological agents risk assessment?

At least every two years under the Regulations for Hazardous Biological Agents, 2022.

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE IN KIMBERLEY

Kimberley is the Northern Cape's capital, known for diamonds and now also a centre for provincial government, healthcare, engineering services and agriculture along the Vaal and Harts rivers.

Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene surveys for these employers: dust and noise surveys, heat stress surveys, biological agent risk assessments, indoor air quality surveys and asbestos inventories.

REACH OUT

Worker cutting steel with an angle grinder as sparks fly

WHERE WE WORK AROUND KIMBERLEY

Kimberley

Ritchie

Barkly West

Jan Kempdorp and Hartswater

Warrenton

Douglas

Diamond mining and tailings retreatment. Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene assessments on mines under the Mine Health and Safety Act (29 of 1996), and can hold the section 12(1) occupational hygiene appointment for surface operations.

Hospitals, clinics and laboratories: hazardous biological agents, laboratory chemicals and indoor air quality.

Government and older office buildings: asbestos inventories, lighting and indoor air quality.

Engineering, rail and transport workshops: welding fume, solvents and noise.

Agriculture and food processing around Barkly West, Jan Kempdorp and Hartswater.

THE HAZARDS WE MEASURE HERE

Respirable dust and silica from ore and tailings, noise from plants and workshops, heat in Northern Cape summers, biological agents in healthcare, and asbestos in older buildings.

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.