How well does your workplace align with the Ergonomics Regulations?
A focused self-check against the core duties for ergonomic risk — from competent-person risk assessment and employee training to risk controls, medical surveillance, maintenance and records.
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If discomfort, awkward posture, force or repetition are simply accepted as “part of the job”, the risk can become invisible.
The Regulations require a structured programme: identify ergonomic hazards, assess them through a competent person, consult affected employees, apply the hierarchy of controls, maintain the controls and keep the required evidence.
What this check covers
This free check follows the structure of South Africa’s Ergonomics Regulations, 2019, one regulation at a time: training and consultation before placement (regulation 3), an ergonomic risk assessment by a competent person before work starts and at least every two years (regulation 6), risk control through the hierarchy of controls rather than technique or PPE (regulation 7), medical surveillance where the assessment or an occupational health practitioner calls for it (regulation 8), maintenance of controls (regulation 9) and records (regulation 10). Eleven questions, four of them safety-critical: the competent-person assessment, the hierarchy of controls, medical surveillance and maintenance of controls. It is written for the employer, the health and safety representative or the person who has been handed “ergonomics” with no starting point. Discomfort complaints are usually the first sign, and the check asks whether risk has been identified before those complaints arrive. If you want to look at a specific task or workstation rather than the programme, the free Ergonomic Risk Screener on this site does that. Nothing you enter is sent to us.
Legal references used to bound this screening tool
Regulation 8 surveillance can be triggered by the risk assessment or an occupational health practitioner.
Risk assessments by a competent person.
Baseline, task-based, chemical, biological and ergonomic risk assessments with clear control measures.
Risk Assessments →Turn findings into controlled actions and evidence.
Use the assessment as an entry point, then connect risk assessments, incidents, plant, training, medicals, contractors, legal duties and controlled documents in the live OHSE system.
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