Consulting
SAACOSH offers strategic OHSE consultancy, drawing on years of practical experience. We develop strong, people-focused systems that go beyond compliance, using ISO-aligned frameworks tailored to integrate with your existing systems. Our approach builds safer, more resilient, and sustainable workplaces.
SAACOSH offers strategic OHSE consultancy, drawing on years of practical experience. We develop strong, people-focused systems that go beyond compliance, using ISO-aligned frameworks tailored to integrate with your existing systems. Our approach builds safer, more resilient, and sustainable workplaces.
Safer, Healthier and more Sustainable
Safer, Healthier and more Sustainable
Health & Safety Consulting Services
Health & Safety Consulting Services
Our health and safety consulting services deliver innovative strategies and solutions that empower clients to manage risks effectively and create safer working environments. We focus on providing excellent service and supportive guidance to ensure sustainable safety improvements.
Our health and safety consulting services deliver innovative strategies and solutions that empower clients to manage risks effectively and create safer working environments. We focus on providing excellent service and supportive guidance to ensure sustainable safety improvements.
OHS Management Systems
OHS Management Systems
SAACOSH crafts and refines safety and environmental systems aligned with global standards.
SAACOSH crafts and refines safety and environmental systems aligned with global standards.
Risk Assessments & Legal Registers
Risk Assessments & Legal Registers
Tailored risk assessments and legal registers address your industry’s unique compliance needs.
Tailored risk assessments and legal registers address your industry’s unique compliance needs.
Fatality Reduction
Fatality Reduction
Expert guidance identifies critical risks, building controls to minimise fatal incidents effectively.
Expert guidance identifies critical risks, building controls to minimise fatal incidents effectively.
Incident Investigations & Audits
Incident Investigations & Audits
Root causes are uncovered, with audits ensuring sustainable, preventative safety improvements.
Root causes are uncovered, with audits ensuring sustainable, preventative safety improvements.
Legal Compliance Audits (OHS & MHS Acts)
Legal Compliance Audits (OHS & MHS Acts)
Rigorous audits deliver clear, actionable recommendations for OHS and MHSA compliance.
Rigorous audits deliver clear, actionable recommendations for OHS and MHSA compliance.
Project Safety & Contractor Oversight
Project Safety & Contractor Oversight
Comprehensive oversight ensures project safety and seamless contractor compliance management.
Comprehensive oversight ensures project safety and seamless contractor compliance management.
Safety Officer Placement
Safety Officer Placement
Skilled safety officers are deployed, supported by efficient systems and administration.
Skilled safety officers are deployed, supported by efficient systems and administration.
ISO Standards Implementation
ISO Standards Implementation
ISO-aligned OHSE systems are implemented, securing global certifications with precision.
ISO-aligned OHSE systems are implemented, securing global certifications with precision.
Leadership & Team Coaching
Leadership & Team Coaching
HRO-based coaching empowers supervisors and teams to lead with confidence and trust.
HRO-based coaching empowers supervisors and teams to lead with confidence and trust.
Safety Culture Transformation
Safety Culture Transformation
In a world shaped by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA), many organisations still rely on outdated safety models rooted in the Industrial Revolution. Despite investment in systems, training, and compliance, accidents continue to happen. At SAACOSH, we understand the frustration of leaders who’ve done everything right yet struggle to reach Zero Harm. We aim to build and work towards resilient, proactive safety cultures where trust, vigilance, and accountability are non-negotiable. Using science based and proven methods, we work towards a safety-first mindset that turns compliance into everyday excellence.
In a world shaped by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA), many organisations still rely on outdated safety models rooted in the Industrial Revolution. Despite investment in systems, training, and compliance, accidents continue to happen. At SAACOSH, we understand the frustration of leaders who’ve done everything right yet struggle to reach Zero Harm. We aim to build and work towards resilient, proactive safety cultures where trust, vigilance, and accountability are non-negotiable. Using science based and proven methods, we work towards a safety-first mindset that turns compliance into everyday excellence.
Foundational Strategies
Foundational Strategies
High Reliability Organising (HRO)
Robust systems anticipate risks, enabling decisive action under high-pressure conditions.
In high-risk environments, hesitation invites disaster. Our High Reliability Organising (HRO) approach equips leaders to anticipate risks and act decisively under pressure. Drawing from the practices of nuclear power plants, offshore drilling rigs, and aviation systems, HRO fosters an informed culture, a common frame of reference, redundancy, and trust and respect. These principles, grounded in empirical research from organisations with minimal incidents despite high risks, enable your team to navigate complexity with precision. HRO cultivates a culture of reliability, adaptability, and unwavering awareness.
High Reliability Organising (HRO)
Robust systems anticipate risks, enabling decisive action under high-pressure conditions.
In high-risk environments, hesitation invites disaster. Our High Reliability Organising (HRO) approach equips leaders to anticipate risks and act decisively under pressure. Drawing from the practices of nuclear power plants, offshore drilling rigs, and aviation systems, HRO fosters an informed culture, a common frame of reference, redundancy, and trust and respect. These principles, grounded in empirical research from organisations with minimal incidents despite high risks, enable your team to navigate complexity with precision. HRO cultivates a culture of reliability, adaptability, and unwavering awareness.
NeuroSafe™
Neuroscience sharpens decisions, reduces errors, and fosters trust in safety practices.
Safety starts with people, and to create resilient and sustainable safety cultures, we must manage the neural processes that precede and trigger behaviour. Our NeuroSafe Masterclass integrates principles and insight from social neuroscience, leadership practice, and positive psychology to sharpen decision-making, reduce errors, and foster trust. Through individual and group leadership coaching for mindful decision-making, we enable leaders to create brain-engaging performance cultures where employees are motivated, engaged, and aligned with safety objectives. NeuroSafe transcends conventional training, embedding mindfulness and mental wellbeing to make safety an instinctive reflex across all levels.
NeuroSafe™
Neuroscience sharpens decisions, reduces errors, and fosters trust in safety practices.
Safety starts with people, and to create resilient and sustainable safety cultures, we must manage the neural processes that precede and trigger behaviour. Our NeuroSafe Masterclass integrates principles and insight from social neuroscience, leadership practice, and positive psychology to sharpen decision-making, reduce errors, and foster trust. Through individual and group leadership coaching for mindful decision-making, we enable leaders to create brain-engaging performance cultures where employees are motivated, engaged, and aligned with safety objectives. NeuroSafe transcends conventional training, embedding mindfulness and mental wellbeing to make safety an instinctive reflex across all levels.
Meerkat™ Process
Peer accountability and collective vigilance are embedded for a unified safety mindset.
Inspired by the meerkats’ relentless vigilance, our Meerkat Process embeds peer accountability and collective responsibility into the heart of your organisation. Through daily Den meetings, a no-name, no-blame philosophy, and open dialogue, we create an environment where employees, including contractors, feel safe to report issues. Concerns are addressed collaboratively, with solutions shared across teams to ensure lessons are learned and shared amongst other similar applicable sections. This holistic, long-term approach fosters a collaborative workforce with proactive hazard identification, making safety an instinctive behaviour that unites every team and department.
Meerkat™ Process
Peer accountability and collective vigilance are embedded for a unified safety mindset.
Inspired by the meerkats’ relentless vigilance, our Meerkat Process embeds peer accountability and collective responsibility into the heart of your organisation. Through daily Den meetings, a no-name, no-blame philosophy, and open dialogue, we create an environment where employees, including contractors, feel safe to report issues. Concerns are addressed collaboratively, with solutions shared across teams to ensure lessons are learned and shared amongst other similar applicable sections. This holistic, long-term approach fosters a collaborative workforce with proactive hazard identification, making safety an instinctive behaviour that unites every team and department.
Tailored Safety Solutions
Tailored Safety Solutions
SHERQ Integration
Integrated systems align safety, health, environment, risk, and quality for unified performance.
Safety does not exist in isolation. Our Safety, Health, Environment, Risk, and Quality (SHERQ) Integration approach aligns these critical domains into a cohesive framework that drives organisational excellence. By integrating safety with health, environmental stewardship, risk management, and quality systems, we ensure a holistic strategy that enhances performance across all levels. This approach, rooted in our commitment to High Reliability Organising, fosters synergy, reduces redundancies, and embeds a culture of comprehensive accountability, ensuring your organisation thrives in a VUCA world.
SHERQ Integration
Integrated systems align safety, health, environment, risk, and quality for unified performance.
Safety does not exist in isolation. Our Safety, Health, Environment, Risk, and Quality (SHERQ) Integration approach aligns these critical domains into a cohesive framework that drives organisational excellence. By integrating safety with health, environmental stewardship, risk management, and quality systems, we ensure a holistic strategy that enhances performance across all levels. This approach, rooted in our commitment to High Reliability Organising, fosters synergy, reduces redundancies, and embeds a culture of comprehensive accountability, ensuring your organisation thrives in a VUCA world.
Organisational Safety Maturity Assessments
Culture-focused evaluations reveal your safety maturity and define your path forward.
Transformation requires knowing where you stand. Our Organisational Safety Maturity Assessments evaluate your safety culture’s developmental stage—from reactive to compliant to proactive—providing a clear roadmap for progress. Distinct from SCI, these assessments analyse leadership readiness, employee engagement, and system effectiveness to determine your organisation’s maturity level. By identifying strengths and gaps, we guide you towards a resilient, proactive safety culture, ensuring every step is strategic and measurable.
Organisational Safety Maturity Assessments
Culture-focused evaluations reveal your safety maturity and define your path forward.
Transformation requires knowing where you stand. Our Organisational Safety Maturity Assessments evaluate your safety culture’s developmental stage—from reactive to compliant to proactive—providing a clear roadmap for progress. Distinct from SCI, these assessments analyse leadership readiness, employee engagement, and system effectiveness to determine your organisation’s maturity level. By identifying strengths and gaps, we guide you towards a resilient, proactive safety culture, ensuring every step is strategic and measurable.
Custom Safety Frameworks and Policies
Tailored strategies embed safety into your organisation’s structure and values.
One-size-fits-all safety solutions fail in a complex world. Our Development of Custom Safety Frameworks and Policies creates bespoke strategies tailored to your organisation’s unique needs. Through collaborative workshops and data-driven insights from SCI and maturity assessments, we craft policies and frameworks that align with your safety vision, integrate with existing systems, and empower employees. These custom solutions ensure sustainable change, embedding safety as a core organisational value.
Custom Safety Frameworks and Policies
Tailored strategies embed safety into your organisation’s structure and values.
One-size-fits-all safety solutions fail in a complex world. Our Development of Custom Safety Frameworks and Policies creates bespoke strategies tailored to your organisation’s unique needs. Through collaborative workshops and data-driven insights from SCI and maturity assessments, we craft policies and frameworks that align with your safety vision, integrate with existing systems, and empower employees. These custom solutions ensure sustainable change, embedding safety as a core organisational value.
Assessment Tools
Assessment Tools
Using science-based tools and our extensive industry experience, we deliver accurate, measurable, and practical insights.
Using science-based tools and our extensive industry experience, we deliver accurate, measurable, and practical insights.
CAMPERS™ Employee Engagement Survey
This neuroscientific tool assesses individual and team engagement, measuring the emotional bond employees have with their work and workplace. Research by the Gallup Organisation shows organisations with high engagement achieve a 78 percent higher success rate in safety figures, alongside 86 percent higher customer metrics, 70 percent lower turnover, 70 percent higher productivity, and 44 percent higher profitability. CAMPERS identifies motivators, highlights gaps, and provides practical strategies to enhance engagement, empowering your workforce to excel in safety and performance.
CAMPERS™ Employee Engagement Survey
This neuroscientific tool assesses individual and team engagement, measuring the emotional bond employees have with their work and workplace. Research by the Gallup Organisation shows organisations with high engagement achieve a 78 percent higher success rate in safety figures, alongside 86 percent higher customer metrics, 70 percent lower turnover, 70 percent higher productivity, and 44 percent higher profitability. CAMPERS identifies motivators, highlights gaps, and provides practical strategies to enhance engagement, empowering your workforce to excel in safety and performance.
CARES™ Neuroleadership Profile
This individual profile explores the neuroscience of leadership, enabling leaders to understand and apply the CARES model to maximise employee performance. By fostering trust, empathy, and mindful communication, CARES equips leaders to create brain-engaging, high-performance safety cultures. Through targeted coaching, it provides actionable insights into leadership styles, ensuring alignment with organisational safety goals and driving sustainable cultural change.
CARES™ Neuroleadership Profile
This individual profile explores the neuroscience of leadership, enabling leaders to understand and apply the CARES model to maximise employee performance. By fostering trust, empathy, and mindful communication, CARES equips leaders to create brain-engaging, high-performance safety cultures. Through targeted coaching, it provides actionable insights into leadership styles, ensuring alignment with organisational safety goals and driving sustainable cultural change.
SCI™ Safety Culture Index
Conducted at a group level, SCI measures the current state of your organisation’s safety culture using positive and negative statements. Rooted in High Reliability Organising principles, it identifies gaps, tracks progress, and guides strategic interventions. Regular assessments provide data-driven clarity, ensuring your safety culture aligns with best practices and evolves effectively.
SCI™ Safety Culture Index
Conducted at a group level, SCI measures the current state of your organisation’s safety culture using positive and negative statements. Rooted in High Reliability Organising principles, it identifies gaps, tracks progress, and guides strategic interventions. Regular assessments provide data-driven clarity, ensuring your safety culture aligns with best practices and evolves effectively.
StrengthsFinder™
Based on over 40 years of Gallup research, this tool measures and ranks individual talents from 1 to 34, identifying what’s naturally right with people. By focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses, StrengthsFinder enhances team synergy, boosts morale, and increases performance. It empowers employees to leverage their unique talents in safety initiatives, creating greater unity and effectiveness.
StrengthsFinder™
Based on over 40 years of Gallup research, this tool measures and ranks individual talents from 1 to 34, identifying what’s naturally right with people. By focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses, StrengthsFinder enhances team synergy, boosts morale, and increases performance. It empowers employees to leverage their unique talents in safety initiatives, creating greater unity and effectiveness.
Belbin Team Roles
This tool maps group dynamics and individual working styles to ensure balanced roles and responsibilities within teams. By understanding how each member contributes, teams can optimise collaboration, improve communication, and strengthen safety-focussed teamwork, ensuring every role supports a resilient safety culture.
Belbin Team Roles
This tool maps group dynamics and individual working styles to ensure balanced roles and responsibilities within teams. By understanding how each member contributes, teams can optimise collaboration, improve communication, and strengthen safety-focussed teamwork, ensuring every role supports a resilient safety culture.
Bar-On Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Assessment
This assessment enhances emotional intelligence at individual and group levels, improving leadership, interpersonal relationships, and team communication. High EQ fosters trust and empathy, critical for empowering employees to speak openly and act responsibly in safety matters, strengthening the organisational culture.
Bar-On Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Assessment
This assessment enhances emotional intelligence at individual and group levels, improving leadership, interpersonal relationships, and team communication. High EQ fosters trust and empathy, critical for empowering employees to speak openly and act responsibly in safety matters, strengthening the organisational culture.
Communication Satisfaction Survey
This survey evaluates the effectiveness of internal communication, identifying gaps and opportunities to foster a connected workplace. Clear, aligned communication ensures safety messages resonate, driving collaboration and a shared commitment to safety goals across all levels.
Communication Satisfaction Survey
This survey evaluates the effectiveness of internal communication, identifying gaps and opportunities to foster a connected workplace. Clear, aligned communication ensures safety messages resonate, driving collaboration and a shared commitment to safety goals across all levels.
Round Table Discussions
These facilitated sessions create a safe space for open, guided dialogue, enabling teams to share insights, address challenges, and build engagement. By fostering collective vigilance and problem-solving, Round Table Discussions empower employees to take ownership of safety, embedding a culture of trust and accountability.
Round Table Discussions
These facilitated sessions create a safe space for open, guided dialogue, enabling teams to share insights, address challenges, and build engagement. By fostering collective vigilance and problem-solving, Round Table Discussions empower employees to take ownership of safety, embedding a culture of trust and accountability.
Precise, actionable diagnostics drive measurable outcomes for lasting safety improvements.
Precise, actionable diagnostics drive measurable outcomes for lasting safety improvements.
Environmental Consulting Services
Environmental Consulting Services
Our environmental solutions blend global sustainability frameworks with on-the-ground expertise tailored for South Africa’s mining, construction, and industrial sectors. Backed by a team of highly skilled industry professionals, we bridge global sustainability ambitions with operational reality, delivering:
Our environmental solutions blend global sustainability frameworks with on-the-ground expertise tailored for South Africa’s mining, construction, and industrial sectors. Backed by a team of highly skilled industry professionals, we bridge global sustainability ambitions with operational reality, delivering:
Permitting & Licensing
Mining rights acquisition and amendments (including Section 102)
Environmental authorisations (Basic Assessments through Full Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
Air emissions and waste management licensing
Water Use License Applications (WULAs) and General Authorisations
Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) revisions
Permitting & Licensing
Mining rights acquisition and amendments (including Section 102)
Environmental authorisations (Basic Assessments through Full Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
Air emissions and waste management licensing
Water Use License Applications (WULAs) and General Authorisations
Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) revisions
Waste & Resource Management
Waste facility licensing and compliance
Hazardous waste classification and SDS development
Contaminated land assessments and remediation planning
Circular economy implementation strategies
Waste & Resource Management
Waste facility licensing and compliance
Hazardous waste classification and SDS development
Contaminated land assessments and remediation planning
Circular economy implementation strategies
Water Resource Management
Water Use License Application (WULA) preparation
Catchment management and conservation planning
Effluent quality optimisation and monitoring programs
Water risk and resilience assessments
Water Resource Management
Water Use License Application (WULA) preparation
Catchment management and conservation planning
Effluent quality optimisation and monitoring programs
Water risk and resilience assessments
Compliance & Auditing
Regulatory compliance audits (NEMA, NWA, and NEM:WA)
Environmental performance evaluations
Compliance gap analysis and corrective action plans
Legal defensibility reviews
Compliance & Auditing
Regulatory compliance audits (NEMA, NWA, and NEM:WA)
Environmental performance evaluations
Compliance gap analysis and corrective action plans
Legal defensibility reviews
Strategic Sustainability
Carbon footprint assessment and reduction planning
Environmental impact and risk assessments
ESG performance benchmarking
Resource efficiency optimisation
Strategic Sustainability
Carbon footprint assessment and reduction planning
Environmental impact and risk assessments
ESG performance benchmarking
Resource efficiency optimisation
Air Quality Services
Source Emission Testing
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring
Continuous Emission Monitoring
Data Management and Reporting
Air Quality Impact Assessments
Atmospheric Emissions Licences
Dust Monitoring
Air Quality Services
Source Emission Testing
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring
Continuous Emission Monitoring
Data Management and Reporting
Air Quality Impact Assessments
Atmospheric Emissions Licences
Dust Monitoring
Why SAACOSH?
Why SAACOSH?
Trusted OHSE Experts
179+ years of combined experience in high-risk sectors
Trusted OHSE Experts
179+ years of combined experience in high-risk sectors
Tailored Solutions
No checklists, just pragmatic strategies built around your operations
Tailored Solutions
No checklists, just pragmatic strategies built around your operations
Human-First Approach
We empower people to lead safety, not just comply with it
Human-First Approach
We empower people to lead safety, not just comply with it
Insight-Driven Tools
Real-time diagnostics guide the journey, not guesswork
Insight-Driven Tools
Real-time diagnostics guide the journey, not guesswork
Take the next step toward a safer, smarter, and more sustainable future.
Take the next step toward a safer, smarter, and more sustainable future.
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