Construction companies which do not comply with safety and health laws will be prosecuted, the labour department warned today. Spokesperson Page Boikanyo said the department was embarking on a nationwide drive beginning today, to ensure workers were operating in safe conditions.
“With construction booming in the run-up to 2010, our approach will be underpinned by pillars of education and ensuring that there is compliance with labour standards,” Boikanyo said. He warned that the department’s inspection and enforcement division, which would drive the campaign, said the worst offending employers would be followed up and possibly prosecuted.
“A database of repeat offending employers would be generated. And an outstanding database of enforcement cases would be determined and a backlog reduction strategy would be created and acted upon, “he said. The department’s drive comes hot on the heels of labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana’s utterances that workers rights are human rights and that safety should be put above profit. – Sapa
14th avenue .. constant vehicle traffic parked in the road, multiple pedestrians all over the road. There is no tar road. It’s dirt.
The dirt washes down from the construction site straight into the roads and gutters.
SUrely the municiple by-laws prohibit this?
It is patently unsafe …. how can action be initiated?
thanks!