Delivering NEBOSH training and other safety services in South Africa

NEBOSH courses are now available across South Africa from leading International Health and Safety training provider SMTS. We have a full schedule of NEBOSH International General Certificate (IGC) courses in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein. SMTS are also the first company to offer you access to Open courses for the NEBOSH International Construction Certificate (ICC) which we are running in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.

SMTS are pleased to announce that we have substantially strengthened our presence in South Africa and we are now trading as SA SMTS (Pty) Ltd. The new South Africa Team is headed up by Jamie Richardson, formerly Group Operations Manager for SMTS UK but now Operations Director South Africa. Jamie has a broad experience and a history of living and working in Central, West, East and Southern Africa across a broad range of industries including Construction, Petroleum Downstream, Manufacturing, Logistics, Education, Defence, Health Services, Leisure Services, Electrical, Water Treatment and Retail.

Jamie is extremely keen to assist and be involved in the development and improvement of understanding of Occupational Health and Safety needs in Southern Africa. Jamie has already enjoyed great satisfaction so far in South Africa with the outcomes of many of his NEBOSH candidates making an impact both on the improvement of Health and Safety within their workplaces and also on their own career progression. SA SMTS (Pty) Ltd) are pleased to offer a range of services and training courses to organisations and individuals in Southern Africa, with a variety of venues on offer for Open courses and the capability to provide in-house courses to organisations, for which substantial cost savings can be made.

The following services and training are examples of what SA SMTS (Pty) Ltd can offer:

Services:

• Consultancy Services: to audit and assess legislative and company procedural compliance and to assist in the development and improvement of company policy. Can be retained to act as your organisation’s ‘safety competent person’.

• Client/Contractor Audits and Management: Specific Audits can be developed for a variety of industries to determine suitability and competency of contractors and exercise ‘due diligence’ of Main Contractor.

• Advisory Services: Carry out Site or Location Inspections to identify significant risks with corrective advice, eg short-term advisory provision; Construction Site Safety Adviser; etc.

• Risk Assessments: carry out, review and develop Risk Assessments for organisations.

• Policy Writing: Development of ‘suitable and sufficient’ Policies for organisations to meet legislative requirements.

• Development of Safe Systems of Work: including procedures, Risk Assessments, Method Statements, Permit-To-Work systems.

Training Courses:

• NEBOSH International General Certificate

• NEBOSH International Certificate in Construction Safety

• NEBOSH Award in Health and Safety (Junior Managers/Supervisors/Experienced Workers)

• IOSH Directing Safely

• IOSH Safety For Senior Executives

• IOSH Managing Safely

• IOSH Working Safely

• Work at Height Safety and Awareness (Ladders/Mobile Tower Scaffolds/Roof Work/MEWPs)

• Emergency Procedures (to cover a whole range of Emergency Scenarios; from Confined Spaces to Accidents to Fire, Gas Leaks, Bomb Threats, Lone and Vulnerable Working, Working Abroad and many more or as required)

• Risk Assessment (courses can be customised to suit any client-specific procedures)

• Accident Reporting, Recording and Investigation

• Health and Safety Policy Writing

• Asbestos Awareness Training (including United Kingdom Asbestos Training Association - UKATA - Certification)

Additional training and courses can be provided to meet HWSETA standards and NQF levels for career and professional development.

Do the people responsible for Health and Safety within in your organisation have the best qualification?

South African businesses increasingly require employees to have completed this global benchmark in safety management qualification and SMTS pioneered courses in Cape Town and Durban which achieved spectacularly good results. Indeed the Durban course achieved an 86% first time pass rate; with all of those passing doing so with credit or distinction grades. The Cape Town course also achieved a superb 75% of candidates passing with credit grade or better Indeed, SMTS’s first time pass rate was 20% higher than the average overall pass rate for NEBOSH International General Certificate.
The courses were so successful that delegates came from Ireland, Portugal, Madagascar and the Gulf and from such diverse roles as plumbing, banking and medical diving.

Bill Hemsley, one of SMTS’s international tutors, describes the two five-day sessions he ran in Durban as one of the best courses he has ever run.

‘There was an extraordinary group dynamic in the training room which led to the candidates becoming the best of friends by the end of the course.’

The Cape Town course also comprised two sessions of five days with the addition of a revision day, and Hemsley explains the reason for candidate’s attendance:

‘Their motivation was career progression as a Health and Safety qualification is seen as an essential requirement in many parts of the world.’

Ken Spengler who attended the Cape Town course was full of praise:

‘Bill Hemsley made a course that has the potential to be delivered in a very boring way and which involves so much work, really exciting and informative. I really enjoyed it.  Bill has a knack of explaining things by drawing from examples that only comes with years of hands on experience, and general life experiences.’

From this very firm foundation SMTS has expanded it’s South African courses to include Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein and is proud that, having taken the initiative, SMTS is experiencing very rapid growth in this area and fully expects that its NEBOSH International General Certificate courses in South Africa will continue to deliver the high quality pass rates that we have become renowned for.

For full details of all open courses and for details on how to apply please click here. If you would like more information on any of our other services, or to discuss your specific requirements, please contact jamie on southafrica@smtsltd.com