Annexure 3 medical certificate of fitness
The Annexure 3 medical certificate of fitness is the certificate every construction worker in South Africa must have, issued by an occupational health practitioner for the specific construction work the person will do, in the form set out in Annexure 3 of the Construction Regulations 2014. Principal contractors and clients check that every person in the safety file has a valid one.
The certificate is specific to the work: tell the practitioner what the person will do, such as working at height, in confined spaces or operating plant, so the examination and any restrictions fit. Mines have their own medical fitness requirements under the Mine Health and Safety Act and their own forms.
SafetyFileBuilder reads each certificate when you upload it, saves its expiry date against the person, and tells you, as a notice, which certificates run out before the job ends.
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What the Construction Regulations 2014 say
“ensure that all his or her employees have a valid medical certificate of fitness specific to the construction work to be performed and issued by an occupational health practitioner in the form of Annexure 3”
What the certificate usually shows
- The employee's and employer's details
- The work the person was assessed for, and the risks of that work
- The outcome: fit, fit with restrictions, temporarily unfit or unfit, with any restrictions
- The date of the examination and the date the certificate expires
- The occupational health practitioner's details and signature
Every client is different: the AI works from your client's own list.
Also called
Annexure 3 · medical certificate of fitness · construction medical · fitness certificate
Your responsibility
SafetyFileBuilder helps you compile and keep your documents. It does not give legal or safety advice: check the requirements that apply where you work, and a competent person checks and signs what the AI drafts.
How to keep certificates valid for a job
- Book each person with an occupational health practitioner and give them the person's work and its risks.
- Check the certificate covers the work the person will actually do, and note any restrictions.
- Record the expiry date, and compare it with the job's end date.
- Book renewals before certificates run out, and put the new certificate in every safety file the person is on.
How SafetyFileBuilder helps
- Start a projectName the job. The AI asks where the work is and who the client is.
- Upload the client's requirementsTheir index, checklist or contractor standard. The AI sets up the headings to match.
- Add your documentsCertificates, medicals, licences, insurance, policies. The AI reads them, files each under the right heading and notes expiry dates.
- Let the AI draft the restScope of work, method statements and risk assessments, written for this job, for a competent person to check and sign.
- Hand it in, keep it currentDownload the finished file in the client's order. You're told before anything runs out.
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Questions
Who may issue an Annexure 3 certificate?
An occupational health practitioner, as regulation 7(1)(g) says. A general certificate from a GP is usually not accepted.
How long is it valid?
Until the expiry date the practitioner sets on it, often a year. Check each certificate, and renew before the date rather than after.
Is the same certificate accepted on a mine?
Usually not: mines require medical fitness under the Mine Health and Safety Act, on their own forms and often at their own clinics.
More for the same file
- Contractor health and safety file: what goes in it and how to build one (South Africa: construction, mines, plants and factories)
- Section 16(2) appointment letter (16.2 appointment) (South Africa: OHS Act section 16(2))
- MHSA regulation 2.9.2 appointment (South Africa: mines (MHSA regulation 2.9.2))
- COIDA letter of good standing (South Africa: Compensation Fund (COIDA))
- Section 37(2) agreement (mandatary agreement) (South Africa: OHS Act section 37(2))
- Baseline risk assessment for construction (South Africa: Construction Regulations 2014)