Work at Height Compliance Pack — Fall Protection Plan, Risk Assessment, Rescue Plan & Equipment Register (South Africa)

An inspector does not ask whether your people wear harnesses. He asks for the plan.

Construction Regulation 10 puts the duty on the employer, not the training provider: a fall protection plan prepared by a competent person, a fall risk assessment behind it, proof of medical fitness, a training programme, a procedure for inspecting and maintaining every piece of fall protection equipment, and a rescue plan with the equipment and people to carry it out. Five things. Most South African sites have harnesses and a training certificate, and nothing else in writing.

This pack is the rest of the file. Forty-two documents in Word, Excel and PDF, written in the same plain-English house style as the rest of Qlause — prose you edit, not blanks you guess at.

What's inside

• Fall Protection Plan Template (12 sections) — every one of the five parts Regulation 10(2) requires, plus the seven supporting sections a client audit asks for. Written out in full, with the places that must become your own site marked as fields.
• Fall Risk Assessment (Excel) — one row per fall risk position, with live 5×5 scoring before and after controls and a residual rating that tells you when the job may start. Includes a worked example scored end to end: a warehouse roof sheet replacement with fragile sheets, unmarked skylights and no permanent anchors, taken from eight red lines down to green. Plus rating guidance written for work at height and a task library of the fall risk positions people forget.
• Fall Protection Equipment Register (Excel) — every harness, lanyard, retractable, anchor, connector, descender and rescue item, with its SANS/EN standard, interval, and dates of manufacture and first use. Next-due dates and status calculate themselves and turn red when they lapse: IN SERVICE, DUE SOON, OVERDUE, NOT INSPECTED, WITHDRAWN. A periodic inspection log keeps the history, and a standards table lists what withdraws each item immediately.
• Rescue Plan Template, rescue drill record and knots card — the part most sites are missing. A harness with no way down is a countdown, not a control: suspension trauma starts in minutes, and "we'll call the fire brigade" is not a rescue plan. The drill record makes you time it.
• Harness & equipment pre-use inspection sheet — the check every user does before every use, which is not the same thing as the periodic inspection in the register. Both are required.
• Fall clearance worksheet — works out whether there is actually enough space below the anchor to arrest a fall (2 + 1.75 + 2 + 1 = 6.75 m for a typical 2 m energy-absorbing lanyard). The calculation people skip, and the reason some arrested falls still hit the ground.
• Lifeline installation checklist — records that a temporary horizontal or vertical lifeline was installed correctly, by a trained person, with the anchor loads considered.
• Practical observation checklist — one row per assessment criterion of SAQA unit standard 229998, for in-house practical checks and pre-course readiness.
• Three 20-question knowledge tests with trainer answer keys — one per module of the free training series, grouped by the specific outcomes of unit standards 229998, 229995 and 229994.
• Certificate of Attainment template — issued by your organisation, with your trainer as signatory and a training-records reference. It states plainly what it is and is not, so nobody mistakes it for an accredited certificate.
• Toolbox talks and attendance registers for all three modules, and a Start Here guide setting out the order to work in and who signs what.

The training is free — and it is the same content

Three complete narrated modules on qlause.app, built outcome-by-outcome on the unit standards, free to watch and free to run with your crew:

• H1 Fall Arrest Basic (US 229998) — https://qlause.app/training/work-at-height/fall-arrest-basic
• H2 Fall Arrest Technician & Basic Rescue (US 229995) — https://qlause.app/training/work-at-height/fall-arrest-technician-rescue
• H3 Fall Protection Plan Developer (US 229994) — https://qlause.app/training/work-at-height/fall-protection-plan-developer

Who it's for

Safety officers and SHEQ managers, contractors and small businesses doing roof, sheeting, solar and maintenance work, construction supervisors, and anyone appointed as the competent person under Construction Regulation 10(1) who has to produce the plan an inspector asks for.

Why buy it

• See exactly what's inside before you buy — real pages from the actual files are previewed above.
• Instant download, secure checkout (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal).
• Single-organisation licence — use it across your whole company, no per-user fees.
• Word and Excel throughout, so every word is yours to change. No macros, no add-ins.
• Written for South African law specifically: the OHS Act 85 of 1993, the Construction Regulations 2014, and the SANS standards marked on your equipment.

Templates, not a signature. A fall protection plan is only valid once a competent person appointed under Regulation 10(1) has written it for your actual site and signed it. Nothing in this pack replaces accredited training and practical assessment by a registered assessor, the Annexure 3 medical certificate of fitness, or your legal duties under the OHS Act. Qlause is not an accredited training provider and issues no SAQA credits.