Free compliance gap assessment: what is due at your workplace?

Use this free tool to check which occupational hygiene assessments, surveys and tests your workplace needs, and which are overdue. Answer eight questions about your site, enter the dates from your latest reports, and the tool builds an action plan you can print, save as a PDF or send to us for a quote.

What the tool checks

The tool covers 30 requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 and its regulations, in four groups:

• Risk assessments for asbestos, hazardous chemical agents, lead, noise, physical agents, hazardous biological agents and ergonomics, plus the overall occupational health risk assessment.

• Monitoring surveys for noise, chemical agents, lead, heat, cold, illumination, indoor air quality, vibration, non-ionising radiation and biological agents, plus air monitoring and clearance inspections for asbestos work.

• Tests of control measures, such as the 24-month examination of local exhaust ventilation, spray booths and mechanical ventilation.

• Facilities checks for drinking water and hygiene facilities, which have no fixed legal interval.

Your answers in step 1 decide which items apply. Where a regulation sets a maximum interval, the tool adds it to the date you enter and shows whether the item is overdue, due within three months or up to date. Anything never done goes straight onto your action plan.

The intervals are maximums. Redo an assessment sooner when processes, equipment or controls change, after an incident, or when medical surveillance shows an adverse health effect.

Your answers stay in your browser. Nothing is sent to Qualitas unless you choose to send it.

How Qualitas can help

Qualitas Occupational Consulting is a Department of Employment and Labour Approved Inspection Authority and a SANAS-accredited (ISO/IEC 17020) inspection body for asbestos, lead, noise and hazardous chemical agents. We can help with most of the assessments, surveys and tests in this tool, and every assessment is led by Christo de Wet.

Send us your action plan with the WhatsApp button in step 3, request a quote, or call 082 649 6599. Not sure where to start? See which assessment you need or browse our services.

This tool summarises the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 and its regulations as they stood on 1 October 2026, for general guidance. It is not legal advice; refer to the regulations for the full requirements, including exact triggers and exemptions.

Christo de Wet is a SAIOH-registered occupational hygienist with 15 years' experience and the founder of Qualitas Occupational Consulting.