Compliance software for South African manufacturing and engineering.
Manufacturing compliance is dominated by machinery. The General Machinery Regulations require competent engineering supervision, statutory equipment carries mandated inspection intervals, and machine guarding failures are among the most common findings a Department of Employment and Labour inspector will record. Add quality management under ISO 9001 and the same plant is being audited against two different frameworks on overlapping evidence.
Which regime applies
- Primary instrument
- OHS Act 85 of 1993 with the General Machinery Regulations
- Regulator
- Department of Employment and Labour
- Why it matters
- GMR 2 requires the appointment of a competent person to supervise machinery. That appointment, its acceptance, and the competence behind it all have to be demonstrable — not merely asserted.
What this sector has to prove
GMR 2 and engineering appointments
Appointments have to be in writing, accepted by a competent person, current, and matched to the plant they cover. SHEQ24 manages the appointment chain with digital acceptance and expiry alerts, so a resignation or a lapsed certificate does not quietly leave machinery unsupervised.
Statutory equipment registers
Pressure vessels, lifting tackle and other statutory equipment carry mandated inspection intervals. Each asset gets a register, a schedule and an inspection history, with QR scanning in the field so the technician records against the right asset rather than the right-looking one.
Machine guarding and inspection findings
Guarding audits generate non-conformances that need routing, ownership and closure. SHEQ24 raises the NCR at the point of inspection and blocks closure until the corrective action is evidenced, which is the difference between a finding that was fixed and a finding that was noted.
COID reporting and injuries on duty
When an injury on duty occurs, the OHS Act Annexure 1 report is generated from the incident record rather than retyped, and the Compensation Fund submission is tracked against its deadline.
The modules that carry most of the load here
The full platform is available regardless of sector. These are the modules that do the heaviest lifting in manufacturing & engineering.
Manufacturing & Engineering questions
Does SHEQ24 track pressure vessel and lifting tackle inspections?
How are GMR 2 appointments managed?
Can the same system serve our ISO 9001 quality requirements?
This page describes compliance obligations in general terms to explain what the platform does. It is not legal advice — confirm the current requirements applicable to your operation before relying on them.
See it against your own manufacturing & engineering obligations.
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