PALGNET is your trusted provider of customized safety, health, environmental and quality training services. We strive to be a leader in the occupational health and safety education and training field in the industrial sectors and to equip students with the required knowledge and skills to meet the growing economic and social demands of the entire African continent economy.
We are a multi-dimensional one-stop services company that addresses the health and safety needs of companies, practitioners, leaders, managers, supervisors and coalface employees through the following four distinct business focus areas:
- We offer tailor-made Conventional Health and Safety consultation and training including contractor management and auditing, supervisor development, legal liability and risk management.
- Assisting organizations to implement the principles of High Reliability Organizing (HRO) and social neuroscience that holds safety and health as core values.
- Equipping leaders to instigate lasting safety culture transformation based on a combination of the latest scientific research, leadership theory and practical experience.
- Producing safety training and related multi-media material such as DVD’s, courses, clips and case studies.
We are a globally recognized provider of health and safety training and consultancy to develop and grow OHS practitioners and other Leaders in organizations. We specialize in Safety Culture Transformation and Health and Safety Training and Development. Our commitment is to deliver exceptional processes and services that truly empower people and enable organizations to develop and sustain safe and healthy work places. However, we are proudly African and most of our greatest successes have come from assisting clients on this great continent to break through their Safety Glass Ceilings.
SAFETY CULTURE TRANSFORMATION
- Safety Culture Assessments including electronic culture surveys
- High Reliability Organizing (HRO) and Mindful Leadership Development.
- NeuroSafe: Creating a Mindful Organization
- Collective Mindful Processes.
- StrengthsFinder (individual and group)
- High Reliability Organizing (individual assessments)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Assessment (individual or group)
- Communication Satisfaction Survey (group
- Round Table Discussions
- Baseline Risk Assessments
- Issue-Based Risk Assessments
- Development of Continuous Risk Assessment Tools
- Risk Management Training (all Levels)
- Advanced Risk Assessment
- Fatal or Reportable Incident Investigations
- Serious Damage to Equipment Incidents
- Disaster Management and Inquiry
- Auditing Incident Management Systems
- Occupational Health Risk Assessment
- Occupational Hygiene Surveys
- Person-task job specification (health)
- Occupational Health Medical Surveillance
- Pre-employment and Exit medical
- Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Compensation for Injury and Diseases Act
- Learner content development
- Unit Standard aligned content development
- Digital Content analysis
Organizations that excel and perform above the rest, invest in their people, and training is a crucial part of the investment. We offer a wide range of cutting-edge training courses aimed at all organizational levels – from executive leadership and senior management to grassroots employee levels. Our courses are constantly updated with the latest academic insight, scientific research and practical experience from their respective fields. As such they tap into and sometimes combine insights and practices from the fields of leadership development, social neuroscience (including neuro leadership), safety management, legal compliance, risk management, team performance, and organizational development.
OHS CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS
- Fundamentals of Occupational Health and Safety
- Fundamentals of Communication
- Occupational Health and Safety applications.
- Occupational Health and Safety Management
- Operations Management and Supervision
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
- NeuroSafe: Leading Safety with the Brain in Mind
- Neuroleadership: Leading with the Brain in Mind
- Leading High-performance Teams
- Building Strengths-Based Teams
- Presenting and Facilitating with Impact
- Building Competence in Cultural Diversity Leadership
- Mindful Leadership
LEGAL
- Legal liability/ Responsibility for Executives
- Legal Health and Safety (Occupational Health and Safety Act)
- Environmental Legislation
- Construction Regulations
- Compensation for Injuries and Diseases (COID Act)
STANDARDS AND SYSTEMS
- Quality Management System Development
- Internal Auditing (ISO 45001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 31001)
- Auditors Course (14001, 45001, 9001)
- Lead Auditors Course (14000, 18001, 9000)
- Overview ISO 18001 and Basic ISO 14001
SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- SHE Representative (OHS Act or MHS Act)
- Performing Effective Workplace Inspections
- Incident Investigation process and techniques
- Lead Investigator (advanced)
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA)
- Advanced Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
- Hazardous Chemical Substances
- Planned Task Observations
- Permit to Work
- Contractor Management including Safety Files
- Working at Heights Safety Training
- First Aid and Fire Fighting
- Critical Risk Management
- Fire Fighting
COACHING AND DEVELOPMENT
Studies in the United Kingdom has shown that while management training leads to an average performance improvement of just over 20%, a follow-on individual coaching intervention pushed improvement up to over 80%.
We currently offer the following individual and group coaching and mentoring services:
- Mindful Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
- Executive Coaching and Mentoring
- Strengths-based Coaching
- Safety Management Coaching and Mentoring
- Safety Coaching for Supervisors
Risk increases with the loss of control from outsourcing work. Keeping work in-house gives an Owner / Client complete control over the production or services provided including quality, durability, and consistency. Outsourcing the work reduces the amount of control held over these aspects. While contracts and agreements can be set in place to control the end-product, the Owner/Client cannot have complete assurance that their requirements are being met.
With the continuing outsourcing of production, companies struggle to standardize their contractor management processes. Requirements and regulations from the various Occupational Safety and Health Agencies in Africa and other governing bodies are constantly changing. Companies need to have full visibility into the quality of work their hired contractors have performed in the past and are performing now, and this often proves difficult.
Contractor management is the managing of outsourced work performed by PALGNET for and on behalf of the owner/client. PALGNET implements a structure and system that manages contractors’ health and safety information, insurance information, training programs and specific documents that pertain to the contractor and the owner/client. Most modern contracts require the effective use of contract management software to aid administration between multiple parties.
PALGNET can assist the client/owner with the management of the SHERQ activities and training of contractors at the Project or Construction Site. The scope of the SHERQ services includes all contractors and sub-contractors managed by the project team and coming on-site for the construction of other projects and involves:
- Contractor and Contractor Safety Personnel Screening/Selection
- Engagement Centre and Onboarding Management
- Contractor Compliance Management, including Safety Files
- Contractor Inspections and Auditing
- Training and Induction of Contractors
- Incident investigations and risk assessments
- Provide temporary staff during high tempo onboarding of contractors
While our main focus is to provide in-house training, consulting and coaching services to our clients, we also offer public training for individuals and small groups. We also host annually in collaboration with the Malawi Engineering Institute, the OHS Safety Conference. Whenever there is a public event a communication is sent out to the public at least 3-4 months before the event.