Partnership seeks to provide best-practice health and safety training

Inspection, testing, verification and certification multinational SGS and State-owned power utility Eskom have partnered to train 24 local youths at Eskom’s Grootvlei power station in the Dipaleseng municipality, in Mpumalanga, south of Heidelberg, in 12 subjects related to safety, health and quality. The subjects are part of the SGS RiskStar training qualification programme, and SGS South Africa is being hosted by the power utility, says SGS South Africa certification and business enhancement division business manager Elfriede Giard.