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Health and Safety File

Your Health and Safety File, free to build. Signed off when you need it.

Every element the law asks of your industry, who owns it, the evidence behind it and what is still outstanding, in one File an inspector can read. Build it at no charge. When you need it signed, a registered Health and Safety Manager reviews it. Care Net clients pay one flat price for sign off, whatever their industry.

A health and safety record being completed
Two ways to take it

The File is free. The sign off is what you pay for.

Free for every client

Build your File at no charge

Answer the File assessment once. The File is assembled for your industry and your sites, and it stays live.

  • Every element of the fifteen sections that applies to you, each with its legal basis
  • Medicals and training done with Care Net linked in from My Clinic Online, without uploading
  • The compliance figure per section and overall, and a gap report you can work from
  • The training and medical matrix for every person in scope, with expiry dates
  • Expiries flagged before they lapse; a new revision when your operation changes
See a sample File
What is in the File

Fifteen sections. Every element evidenced or flagged.

Every element carries the duty in plain words, the law it rests on, who is responsible, the evidence required, how often it is reviewed and where it stands today: linked from My Clinic Online, uploaded, outstanding, expired, or not applicable with a written reason. Nothing else.

Your industry adds its own elements on top: for example the full Construction Regulations for building and civils work, the Mine Health and Safety Act regime at a mine, or PSIRA and firearm competency for security services. A universal element is never removed silently; if it does not apply, the File says so and why.

Sign off costs

What sign off costs in your industry, and what Care Net clients pay.

These are the averages South African providers publish for a Health and Safety File compiled by a safety practitioner. Providers price construction Files separately from Files for other businesses, and none publishes a price for a single industry outside construction, so each industry shows the average that applies to it and says so. Care Net clients pay one flat price for sign off, whatever their industry’s average, and doing enough occupational medicals with Care Net makes it free. The File itself costs nothing either way.

Market averageChoose aboveThe typical range appears here
Care Net client priceOne flat priceThe same whatever the industry average, for companies under a Care Net service level agreement or doing their medicals with Care Net
You keepChoose aboveThe difference against the market average

Market figures are shown as providers publish them, and most do not say whether VAT is included. Care Net client prices exclude VAT and cover one File for one site. Multiple sites, construction projects above the notification threshold and Files with contractor layering are still quoted by a sales executive, who confirms the figure, or the free tier, before any work starts. The File itself is free in every case.

Every industry

The industry figures are being finalised from current market research and appear here once published.

Where the figures come from

Market research across published consultant price lists, public tender awards and professional fee guidance.

    Linked, not uploaded

    Medicals and training done with Care Net arrive in your File on their own.

    Medicals

    Certificates of fitness per person per protocol, the Construction Regulations medical certificate of fitness where construction work applies, professional driving permit medicals, and the mine certificate of fitness at a mine. Each arrives with its issue date, expiry, any work restriction and the practitioner who signed.

    Only what the employer may lawfully hold: fit, fit with a restriction, or not fit. No clinical detail ever reaches the File.

    Training

    Every training record My Clinic Online holds for your people, with provider, course or unit standard, date, expiry and certificate reference. It fills the training matrix and the competence evidence of every appointment.

    People are matched on My Clinic Online's own person reference, never on a name. Where there is no record, the item shows outstanding and you can upload instead; where a record has expired, the File shows the renewal path.

    See it before you build it

    A sample File for every industry.

    Each sample is a complete File for a fictitious company: the compliance matrix, the training and medical matrix and the gap report, built from the same element library as yours.

    The law behind your File

    Nothing is cited until it has been checked three times.

    Every instrument in your File is verified against its primary text, corroborated by an independent source, and checked for currency on the day. An instrument that fails a check is left out rather than guessed at, and the element that depends on it shows as awaiting verification instead. The register is reviewed every month; when the law moves, your File opens a revision.

    What the File does, and what it does not.It assembles, evidences, flags and reports. It does not decide that a workplace is safe, certify that a person is competent or determine anyone's fitness for work. The accountable people decide and sign: the Health and Safety Manager signs the safety content, your section 16(2) appointee accepts the File and your chief executive acknowledges it. The Occupational Medical Practitioner signs the Medical Surveillance Plan, a separate Care Net product, which the File holds in Section E as evidence.

    See the legislation register: every instrument behind your File, where it stands today, read live, and what it covers in plain words.

    Ready to build your File?

    Start with your work email. Already registered with Care Net? Use the same work email and the builder finds your company account.

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