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HEALTH AND SAFETY

Compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act ensures that Old Mutual’s standards of health and safety are maintained.

Safety committees – including first-aid experts – exist within various business units and the company has a coherent and easily accessible safety policy.

FIRST AID

A Safety Manager has been appointed who oversees the activities of a First-Aid Co-ordinator at Mutualpark. The duties of the First-Aid Co-ordinator are to provide robust and related communications with all personnel and business units, to ensure sufficiently high standards of first-aid provision, and to maintain equipment throughout the building.

In addition, the Co-ordinator must conduct regular audits of equipment and volunteers, and to ensure a constant state of readiness in the event of a state of emergency.

THE OLD MUTUAL CLINIC AT MUTUALPARK

The Old Mutual Clinic at Mutualpark offers various services to staff, including the following:

• Eye screening;  
• Preventative medicine (eg. influenza and hepatitis vaccines);  
• Reproductive health clinic;  
• Biological monitoring (audiometry etc).