Safety and Health practices

A healthy, safe and incident-free working environment enhances productivity and contributes towards employee wellbeing. A group health and safety officer has been appointed with the express intention of enhancing the existing health and safety policy, compliance with legislative requirements, monthly health and safety meetings and health and safety audits. Awareness of the company’s health and safety requirements is created for all new employees as part of their induction process. Frequent information updates are circulated via e-mail to all existing employees.

Trained first-aid employee representatives are available on site to assist with any incident. The group had no major safety and health incidents during the year under review.

Blue Label Telecoms has a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy to minimise the risk to exposure by way of:

• instilling a prevention culture within the organisation;
• providing employees with an opportunity to volunteer to have an HIV/AIDS test resulting in detection of infections; and
• providing medication and treatment to affected employees as the final element to the strategy.

Workplace awareness programmes include awareness activities, condom distribution, voluntary HIV testing, infection control, counselling and treatment. The company has a partnership with the Bryanston Assessment Centre and all employee matters of a psychological nature are referred and treated accordingly. In addition, as Discovery Health is the chosen medical aid service provider, all employees are referred to the existing disease management forums within Discovery Health such as the oncology, diabetes and HIV management forums.