Tag: safety risk assessment

Being a good corporate citizen means that businesses place people first, respective of their employees and the communities they operate in. Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), routinely used in electrical switchgear poses a significant risk to both human health and the environment based on possible adverse operating conditions, possible leakage, and inappropriate disposal of the equipment at the end of its life cycle.

The Department of Employment and Labour has recently provided much needed guidance in respect of questions which employers have been grappling with since President Ramaphosa's declaration of a National State of Disaster on Sunday 15 March 2020.