Your DOL paperwork is perfect, but does your Durban site have a Flammable Certificate? Learn the eThekwini fire by-law rules before an inspector does.   I want you to walk outside right now — not metaphorically, actually get up — and count something for me. How many 19kg gas cylinders are chained up behind your kitchen? How many tins of thinners and paint are stacked in that storeroom nobody really manages? Now hold that number in your head, because by the end of this post, you might realise you've been sitting on a compliance gap wide enough to shut your business down in a single afternoon. I've spent 13 years walking sites across KwaZulu-Natal as a registered safety practitioner, and I can tell you the pattern is almost always the same. A business owner proudly shows me a health and safety file that would make an auditor weep with joy. Risk assessments signed. Appointments in order. Every DOL box ticked. And then I ask one question that stops the tour dead: "Where's...