Induction ticks a box. Orientation saves a life. Discover the 4-Pillar system South African Safety Officers use to protect new hires in their first 90 days. Let me ask you a question I ask every Safety Officer I train: when you started your current job, were you safely oriented ... or were you just inducted ? There's a massive difference, and in over 13 years of walking factory floors, warehouses, and construction sites across KwaZulu-Natal, I've seen the same gap play out again and again. Roughly 90% of companies get this wrong. They settle for what I call the First-Day Mirage : 30 minutes in a cramped office, a signature on the attendance register, a grainy safety video, a quick point toward the PPE chart, a finger toward the assembly point. For most organisations, that's "job done." The statistics tell a far more violent story. The first 90 days of employment are the deadliest in any workplace. When you rely on a brief induction, you are treating a new hir...
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