Can Qualitas work on a new platinum mine project?

Yes. Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene assessments on mines under the Mine Health and Safety Act, and Christo de Wet can hold the section 12(1) appointment for surface operations.

Do construction contractors on a mine project need their own assessments?

Yes. Each employer must assess its own employees' exposure to dust, noise and heat, whether the work falls under the mining law or the Construction Regulations.

Is diesel exhaust monitored?

Diesel particulate matter and exhaust gases are hazardous chemical agents. Haul fleets, generators and workshops with idling vehicles need a chemical risk assessment and, where significant, monitoring.

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE IN MOKOPANE

Mokopane sits on the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, home to one of the world's largest opencast platinum mines and to new platinum group metal mines under development, with a fast-growing contractor and engineering base in town.

Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene surveys for these employers: dust and silica monitoring, diesel exhaust and noise surveys, heat stress surveys, and welding fume monitoring.

REACH OUT

Worker cutting steel with an angle grinder as sparks fly

WHERE WE WORK AROUND MOKOPANE

Mokopane (Potgietersrus)

Mahwelereng

Mookgophong

Modimolle

Zebediela

Polokwane (see its own page)

Platinum mining and new mine developments. 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.

Mining contractors, engineering and rebuild workshops: welding fume, solvents, grinding dust and noise, under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Construction contractors on new shafts, plants and infrastructure: silica, noise and heat.

Agriculture and game farming around Mokopane and Mookgophong.

THE HAZARDS WE MEASURE HERE

Respirable dust and silica from drilling, blasting and crushing, diesel exhaust from haul fleets, noise, whole-body vibration, welding fume in workshops, and Limpopo summer heat.

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.