About Benrisk Consulting (established in 1999)
AGENT SERVICES - Construction Health & Safety (Pr.CHSA)
Outsourcing SHE / OHS
The fields of Occupational Health and Safety, and General Risk Management are areas of business which can have severe financial, legal and moral liabilities that impact the competitiveness and reputation of a business.
Today’s business world has identified that outsourcing is an important part of remaining competitive and focusing on the operation’s core business. Business restructuring, down-sizing and similar strategies have often resulted in businesses reducing attention and the priority required to maintain the various legal and moral business responsibilities. Survival and production imperatives, coupled with the lack of in-house expertise reduce the business ability to remain within the legal and moral standards required.
Benrisk is your outsourcing partner in managing the Safety, Health, Environmental and Risk Management fields of your business.
Benrisk Consulting provides a “3P” Service; Personalised, Practical and Professional services to businesses wishing to cost effectively manage their legal and moral liabilities and risks within the Occupational Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) and Risk Management fields.
THE “3P” SERVICES
Benrisk Consulting offers a Personalised, Practical and Professional outsourced service to reduce the cost of ownership of these services
Personalised, to the extent that the service level agreement is customised to meet the specific needs of the client’s business and to fulfil the desired objectives to the client’s specification.
Practical, as the service will be supportive of existing business functions, cost effective, aligned to strategic goals, user friendly and easily implemented. We aim to support and promote effective management of the business, its operation and its compliance with legal & moral responsibilities.
Professional, in that the desired service is delivered by a qualified professinal on time, in a proficient and expert manner addressing the business’s need to provide a safe and healthy workplace and the infrastructure to maintain the necessary compliance and limit legal and moral liabilities.
Clients include:
- The AECI Group
- African Explosives Limited, (SA & Africa)
- AFROX Limited (gas & hospitals)
- APV Invensys (Project Managers)
- AON Botswana
- Botswana Government
- Botswana Telecommunications Corporation,
- Botswana Insurance Company
- Comparex Group
- Chrome Resources Limited (mining)
- Cresta Hospitality Group
- Delta Electrical Group
- Ernst & Young
- Glenrand M.I.B Group
- Global Risk Consultants UK
- Hulett Aluminium
- IBM SA
- IRCA Risk Consultants
- Johnson Controls SA Facilities Managment
- Kelgran Group (mining)
- Namwater
- NEI Africa Group
- Nosa Safety Consultants
- L'Oreal
- Parker Hannifin UK
- Rainbow Chicken Farms
- Rand Water
- Risk Management SA (now Marsh SA)
- SAPPI (SAICCOR & Ngodwana)
- Sicpa SA
- Several Northern KZN Coal Mines
- TFD Networks Africa
- Tongaat Hulett Sugar
- United Parcel Services - UK & Germany
- Unilever SEA, Malawi
- Webber Wentzel Bowen
- Marsh-AFRS
Benrisk Consulting's Sole Proprietor, Leighton Bennett, is a SACPCMP registered Construction Health & Safety Agent (Pr.CHSA), a professionally registered Occupational Safety Professional (GradSaiosh) and professionally registered Risk Management Consultant , who established Benrisk Consulting in 1999, having had an SHE/OHS career since 1978, following his original degreed Engineering Geological career.
This practical experience includes:
- Working 9 years as an degreed engineering geologist
- Working 2 years for NOSA in industry, mining and training,
- Operating a NOSA 5 star H&S management programme at 5 star status for 10 consecutive years at a major metal industry plant,
- Performing risk management surveys for the insurance industry for 8 years,
- Establishing and consulting from Benrisk Consulting since 1999.
Affiliations and Professional Memberships
- SACPCMP registered Profgfessional Construction Health & Safety Agent (Pr.CHSA)
- SAIOSH professionally registered Graduate (GradSaiosh)
- Associate Member, Institute of Risk Management SA (IRMSA),
- Previously registered ROSProf (Registered Occupational Health & Safety Professional) with the Institute of Safety Management (IoSM) SAQA professional body until its closure in 2019
- Fellow, Institute of Safety Management (IoSM), & National Treasure
- Exco member, Safety First Association, publishers of the “African-OS&H" journal ( formally "National Safety“)
- Former Minister of Labour appointed Occupational Safety Specialist serving on the Advisory Council on Occupational Health & Safety (ACOHS) established under section 2 of the Occupational Health & Safety Act
- Former external tutor: Technikon SA’s Risk Management 2 course (in 4th year) for B.Tech degree (TechSA is now part of UNISA)
- Mining Qualifications Authority’s unit standards developing group member, for the SGG & SQCG for Occupational Safety in the mining industry
Authorship
“Risk Assessments: Guide to Understanding the Basics” published & distributed by the Safety First Association (2006)
Integrated Environmental Management Information series, Volume 23, "Risk Management" published in 2006 by the Dept. of Environmental Affairs & Tourism (DEAT) (ISBN 0-9585084-2-9)
Part author of the "Safety Management in an Organisational Context", a UNISA textbook, published by Juta & Company in,2017, ISBN 978-1-4851-2507-5.
Awards
2007 IoSM National Safety Practitioner of the Year
2007 IoSM Ekurhuleni Branch Safety Practitioner the year