Department of Employment and Labour

    Inspection and compliance software for process plants under the OHS Act

    For chemical, explosives, fuel, paper, cement and steel plants in South Africa: statutory inspections of pressure equipment and pipework with isometrics and wall-thickness readings, permits to work with isolation verified by a second person, a legal register seeded with an OHS Act pack, and clause-level ISO 45001 conformance.

    Process plant with distillation columns and pipework under a clear sky
    Inspecable refusing to close a corrective action until evidence, a signature and a verification method are recorded
    01What the regulator asks for

    Under the Occupational Health

    Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 and the Pressure Equipment Regulations. Each obligation below has a free document to start on paper, emailed as a PDF.

    Pressure equipment and pipework inspected on their intervals

    The Pressure Equipment Regulations put every vessel and line on an inspection interval with an approved inspection authority. The site must know what it has, when each item was last inspected and what the thickness readings say.

    API 570 piping inspection record (thickness, corrosion rate, remaining life)

    A permit to work for hot work, confined space and electrical work

    The General Safety Regulations and the Electrical Machinery Regulations expect the isolation proved and the entry controlled. The permit and its isolation register are the evidence.

    Permit to work template (with isolation register)

    Section 16(2) appointments, the legal register and ISO 45001

    Duties assigned in writing, health and safety representatives and committees under sections 17 and 19, and a legal register an ISO 45001 auditor can walk through clause by clause.

    OHS Act legal compliance audit checklist
    02The same record in Inspecable

    What the product enforces, and what is switched on for you

    Every trial starts on the Safety & Compliance edition. Anything marked Operations plan is switched on by Inspecable.

    Isometrics with revision control and CML readings

    Isometric drawings with a check-and-approve lifecycle and an issued PDF whose QR code answers "is this current?". A CML wall-thickness reading below the minimum you set raises an issue and a corrective action.

    Permits to work the database enforces

    Permit types you define, signatories routed by email, every isolation verified by a second person, and no closing while a lock is on. On the web dashboard; the pre-task check runs on the phone.

    A legal register seeded with the OHS Act pack

    An eleven-item OHS Act pack to start, legal appointments and committees on the record, and clause-level conformance for ISO 45001 and SANS 3000-1 beside it. Compliance audits feed the corrective-action register.

    Planned maintenance and work orders (Operations plan)

    A planned-maintenance register with overdue badges, work orders raised from a failed inspection item and signed off with parts used, and a dispatch board that proposes who does what for a manager to approve.

    The mechanisms in detail: pre-start checks, vehicle inspections, permits to work, corrective actions, the legal register, the asset register and the AI.

    03Questions

    Asked by process plants before buying

    No. The Pressure Equipment Regulations require an approved inspection authority for the statutory inspections. Inspecable holds the register, the intervals, the isometrics, the thickness readings and the certificate references, so the site can show the authority and the inspector what was inspected and when.

    Yes. Upload it from Excel or CSV on the web dashboard; AI column mapping matches your headings to the asset fields and you confirm each row before it is written. The free asset register template on this site is laid out to import directly.

    A plant on a mine, including a concentrator, smelter or refinery that forms part of the mine, falls under the Mine Health and Safety Act and its inspectorate. A standalone chemical, fuel or manufacturing plant falls under the OHS Act and the Department of Employment and Labour. Inspecable seeds the register for either.
    See it on your own checklists

    Fourteen days on the Safety & Compliance edition, no card

    Import your inspection, run it on a phone with no signal, and watch the failed item raise a tracked action. Or book a 30-minute walkthrough on your site's records.