South Africa: construction, mines, plants and factories

Build your contractor safety file with AI

In South Africa, every contractor and sub-contractor needs a health and safety file before work starts: under the Construction Regulations 2014 on construction sites, and under the client's contractor requirements on mines (Mine Health and Safety Act) and in plants and factories (Occupational Health and Safety Act).

Each client has its own index, and each project needs its own file. SafetyFileBuilder lets you start a project, upload the client's index and your documents, and an AI leads you through the file heading by heading until it is ready to hand in.

What clients usually ask for

  • Letter of good standing (COIDA) and company registration
  • Health and safety policy, signed by the CEO
  • Appointments (e.g. section 16.2, construction manager, supervisors, safety officer)
  • Scope of work, risk assessments and method statements (and a fall protection plan where needed)
  • Medical fitness certificates, inductions and competency certificates for every person
  • Equipment registers with inspection and test certificates
  • Organogram, emergency plan, PPE issue and toolbox talk records

Every client is different: the AI works from your client's own list.

Also called

H&S file · site specific safety file · contractor safety file · mine safety file · SHE file · veiligheidslêer

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 SafetyFileBuilder helps

  1. Start a projectName the job. The AI asks where the work is and who the client is.
  2. Upload the client's requirementsTheir index, checklist or contractor standard. The AI sets up the headings to match.
  3. Add your documentsCertificates, medicals, licences, insurance, policies. The AI reads them, files each under the right heading and notes expiry dates.
  4. 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.
  5. Hand it in, keep it currentDownload the finished file in the client's order. You're warned before anything runs out.

No subscription: your company, people, certificates and files are free to keep, and you buy AI credits from US$5 and pay only for what the AI does. Available in 18 languages.

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