BMS HoldingsBusiness Made Safe

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About BMS Holdings

BMS Holdings is an occupational health and safety company in Cape Town. The letters BMS stand for Business Made Safe, which is both our name and the job we do for every client.

Tower cranes and site vehicles on a construction site at sunset

Our story

BMS Holdings started as a health and safety consultancy in Cape Town, helping businesses understand what the OHS Act asks of them and put it into practice. As our clients' needs grew, so did we: into training, thermal imaging, ISO implementation and occupational medicals, so one team could look after the whole picture.

Along the way we saw the same problem everywhere: compliance buried in paperwork. That led to two software companies in the BMS group. SHEQ24 runs a company's whole health and safety system online, and My Safety File generates construction safety files in minutes.

Today we work with businesses of every size, from SMEs to JSE-listed companies, with a strong base in food and beverage manufacturing. BMS Holdings is the trading name of Business Made Safe Holdings (Pty) Ltd, based at The Colosseum in Century City.

What we're here to do

Our mission is to be a recognised and experienced business partner, continuously delivering assurance and compliance.

In practice, that means three things. We tell you plainly where you stand against the law. We fix what needs fixing, in order of risk. And we leave your people more capable than we found them.

Compliance through competence.

Any business can buy a safety file. It sits on a shelf until an inspector or an incident tests it, and then it often fails, because nobody on site knows what's in it.

We work the other way around. We train supervisors to run their own risk assessments, build ISO systems that fit how your business already works, and keep training records in a form that answers the first question in every investigation: "Was the person trained, and can you prove it?"

  1. Assess. We start with your site, your people and the law that applies to you.
  2. Prioritise. We rank what we find by risk, so the most serious issues are dealt with first.
  3. Build competence. We fix the gaps with your team, not around them.
  4. Prove it. You end with records that show what was done, by whom and when.

The BMS group.

BMS Holdings owns two specialist companies. Each runs as its own business, with its own team, product and website.

SHEQ24Compliance software

SHEQ24 is cloud software for managing safety, health, environment, quality and food safety. It was developed with specialists from those fields, to solve the problems they deal with every day. The development team is in Cape Town, so support is local.

It supports ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, BRC, FSSC 22000, and OHS and environmental legal compliance. It runs in the browser on any device with internet access, needs no servers, and is billed per company per month, not per user.

SHEQ24 company dashboard showing open issues, incidents and plan-do-check-act controls
Risk assessment (HIRA)Incident managementTraining & competencyLegal appointmentsDocument controlLegal registerAudit managementMobile inspections
Corrective actionsPermit to workContractor portal (s37.2)PPEAsset careMedicalsEmergency planningCustomer complaints
  • Dashboards with real-time information: incident and non-conformance statistics, inspection and training compliance, risk, asset breakdowns and customer complaints.
  • Document control: upload, approve, revise and archive documents, with email alerts when a document changes and links to the training matrix.
  • Risk management: company-specific risk criteria, and controls that are tracked to prove they're working.
  • A live training matrix: courses linked to occupations, departments and legal appointments, with expiry alerts to the responsible manager.
Visit sheq24.co.za
My Safety FileConstruction safety files

My Safety File generates site-specific construction safety files online. Contractors enter their project details and get a complete file of 351 documents across 9 categories, built to the OHS Act and the Construction Regulations 2014, in about 8 minutes.

It costs R500 per file, with no registration or monthly fees, so compliance is affordable for small contractors too. Consultants use it to manage many clients' files under their own branding.

Construction contractors on scaffolding, the teams My Safety File builds safety files for
Safety file readyConstruction Regulations 2014
Documents
351
Time
8:00
Cost
R500

A complete construction safety file: 351 documents in 9 categories, in about 8 minutes, for R500.

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    We have been working with BMS Holdings for more than five years. BMS makes it easy for us to stay compliant with the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
    Helene · Safety Management, GRW

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