Introduction: Most Workplace Accidents Are Preventable Here's an uncomfortable truth: the majority of workplace injuries and near-misses in South Africa happen not because the hazard didn't exist — but because nobody identified it in time. The Occupational Health and Safety Act (No. 85 of 1993) places a clear legal duty on both employers and employees to identify, report, and mitigate workplace hazards. Yet walk into almost any small or medium business in the Western Cape, an