Company: South Africa
Location: South Africa
Closing Date: 07 October 2025
Introduction
Cementation Africa Training Academy would like to invite suitably qualified candidates referred by a Cementation Africa employee to apply for 18.2 (Non-employed) Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (NQF Level 2) learnership programmes
Job description
- This qualification is to equip learners working in any type of workplace with a broad understanding and knowledge of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) concepts and practices with sufficient detail to enable them to function in a safe and healthy way and to deal with health and safety problems and issues.
- It will also contribute to the further development of learners within this environment by providing articulation, recognition and mobility within this dynamic and changing environment.
- Qualifying learners will be able to show responsibility, and independently and effectively manage themselves in the workplace regarding generic health and safety issues.
- Learners will be able to identify and evaluate occupational safety, health and environmental factors, in occupational environments, which may have a detrimental effect on health and safety of people in such environments.
- Learners credited with this qualification are able to perform essential measurements and functions that promote a culture of health and safety in the workplace.
- There is a critical need in the industry to recognise learner competence regarding essential operations associated with a healthy, safe and productive working environment. This qualification is the entry level to a career path in one of the areas of specialisation in Occupational HSE. It is generic enough to allow maximum mobility within the field of application.
- The Learnership duration will fall over a six (6) month period.
Minimum requirements
- Grade 10 or 11 (Must submit a pass/promote report card from school, with the stamp of the school)
- Grade 12 will be advantageous
- Must currently be unemployed
- Must be a South African Citizen
- Have good written and verbal communication skills in English
- Must be medically fit to work in the mining underground environment
- Must not have a criminal record
- To ensure safety, it is required that female candidates are not pregnant
- Cementation Africa has a ZERO tolerance policy on alcohol and/or illegal substances; therefore, candidates will be tested as part of the onboarding process as well as random tests during the duration of the learnership
- Must be able to travel at your own costs to and from the Training Academy (Carletonville) every second week.
- Must not be registered for any other learnership programme