Thuthukani Basebenzi Trading Enterprise

07/08/2023

05/08/2020

If it can't be grown, it has to be mined. We need to start from a basic statement: The modern world simply can't function without mining. Mineral products are essential components for cell phones, cars, energy towers, solar panels, wind turbines, fertilizers, machinery and all kinds of construction.

22/07/2020

Engineers don't only like solving problems, they also go out of their way to create their own problems and bring solutions to the problems.

Thuthukani Basebenzi is a company owned and managed by young energetic and qualified youth who have been in the mining industry for years. They are ready to solve your maintenance, fabrication and installation challenges at your convenience.

31/05/2020

Your most trusted Maintenance, Fabrication and Installation service provider. We value SAFETY, TIME, QUALITY and LOYALTY.

29/05/2020

Without being pushed to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.

Through this Covid-19 we take orders for maintenance; supply, fabricate and deliveries at your convenience.

22/05/2020

Without being pushed to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.

Through this Covid-19 we take orders to supply, fabricate and deliver at your convenience.

28/01/2020

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

– Leonardo da Vinci.

14/11/2019

A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a conveyor system (often shortened to belt conveyor). A belt conveyor system is one of many types of conveyor systems. A belt conveyor system consists of two or more pulleys (sometimes referred to as drums), with an endless loop of carrying medium—the conveyor belt—that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward.

The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley is called the idler pulley. There are two main industrial classes of belt conveyors; Those in general material handlingsuch as those moving boxes along inside a factory and bulk material handling such as those used to transport large volumes of resources.

Conveyors are used to transport materials horizontally, vertically, at an angle, or around curves. Hazards depend on the
type of conveyer, the material conveyed, the location of the conveyor, and how close the conveyer is to workers.

Conveyors eliminate or reduce manual
material handling tasks, but they
introduce amputation hazards associated with mechanical motion.
Conveyor‐related injuries often involve a worker’s body parts getting caught in nip points or shear points when:
• Cleaning or maintaining a conveyor, especially when it is still operating.
• Reaching into an in‐going nip point
to remove debris or to free jammed material.
• A cleaning cloth or clothing gets
caught in the conveyor and pulls
fingers or hands into the conveyor.
Other conveyor‐related hazards include
improperly guarded gears, sprocket and
chain drives, horizontal and vertical
shafting, belts and pulleys, and power
transmission couplings.

Overhead conveyors warrant special
attention because most of the drive train is exposed.Workers have been injured or
killed while working in areas underneath conveyors and in areas around
lubrication fittings, tension adjusters, and other equipment with hazardous energy sources.

13/11/2019

Five (5) steps to risk assessment.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) advises employers to follow five steps when carrying out a workplace risk assessment:

Step 1: Identify hazards, i.e. anything that may cause harm.
Employers have a duty to assess the health and safety risks faced by their workers. Employer must systematically check for possible physical, mental, chemical and biological hazards.
This is one common classification of hazards:

Physical: e.g. lifting, awkward postures, slips and trips, noise, dust, machinery, computer equipment, etc.

Mental: e.g. excess workload, long hours, working with high-need clients, bullying, etc. These are also called 'psychosocial' hazards, affecting mental health and occurring within working relationships.

Chemical: e.g. cleaning fluids, aerosols, etc.

Biological: including tuberculosis, hepatitis and other infectious diseases faced by healthcare workers, home care staff and other healthcare professionals.

Step 2: Decide who may be harmed, and how.
Identifying who is at risk starts with your organisation's own full- and part-time employees. Employers must also assess risks faced by agency and contract staff, visitors, clients and other members of the public on their premises.
Employers must review work routines in all the different locations and situations where their staff are employed. For example:

Supervisors must take due account of their client's personal safety and ensure safe working and lifting arrangements for their own home care staff.

Employers have special duties towards the health and safety of young workers, disabled employees, nightworkers, shiftworkers, and pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Step 3: Assess the risks and take action.
This means employers must consider how likely it is that each hazard could cause harm. This will determine whether or not your employer should reduce the level of risk. Even after all precautions have been taken, some risk usually remains. Employers must decide for each remaining hazard whether the risk remains high, medium or low.

Step 4: Make a record of the findings.
Employers with five or more staff are required to record in writing the main findings of the risk assessment. This record should include details of any hazards noted in the risk assessment, and action taken to reduce or eliminate risk.

This record provides proof that the assessment was carried out, and is used as the basis for a later review of working practices. The risk assessment is a working document. You should be able to read it. It should not be locked away in a cupboard.

Step 5: Review the risk assessment.
A risk assessment must be kept under review in order to:

ensure that agreed safe working practices continue to be applied (e.g. that management's safety instructions are respected by supervisors and line managers); and

take account of any new working practices, new machinery or more demanding work targets.

23/10/2019

IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS.

Ethics are important because of the following:

Satisfying Basic Human Needs: Being fair, honest and ethical is one the basic human needs. Every employee desires to be such himself and to work for an organization that is fair and ethical in its practices.

Creating Credibility: An organization that is believed to be driven by moral values is respected in the society even by those who may have no information about the working and the businesses or an organization. Infosys, for example is perceived as an organization for good corporate governance and social responsibility initiatives. This perception is held far and wide even by those who do not even know what business the organization is into.

Uniting People and Leadership: An organization driven by values is revered by its employees also. They are the common thread that brings the employees and the decision makers on a common platform. This goes a long way in aligning behaviors within the organization towards achievement of one common goal or mission.

Improving Decision Making: A man’s destiny is the sum total of all the decisions that he/she takes in course of his life. The same holds true for organizations. Decisions are driven by values. For example an organization that does not value competition will be fierce in its operations aiming to wipe out its competitors and establish a monopoly in the market.

Long Term Gains: Organizations guided by ethics and values are profitable in the long run, though in the short run they may seem to lose money. Tata group, one of the largest business conglomerates in India was seen on the verge of decline at the beginning of 1990’s, which soon turned out to be otherwise. The same company’s Tata NANO car was predicted as a failure, and failed to do well but the same is picking up fast now.

Securing the Society: Often ethics succeeds law in safeguarding the society. The law machinery is often found acting as a mute spectator, unable to save the society and the environment. Technology, for example is growing at such a fast pace that the by the time law comes up with a regulation we have a newer technology with new threats replacing the older one. Lawyers and public interest litigations may not help a great deal but ethics can.

Ethics tries to create a sense of right and wrong in the organizations and often when the law fails, it is the ethics that may stop organizations from harming the society or environment.