It’s challenging times for most individuals and companies nowadays

CHAIRMAN’S DESK LEEASA NEWS

It's challenging times for most individuals and companies nowadays. Most people can now put a name instead of a number to somebody who has succumbed to Covid-19, which is unfortunate as it all hits so close to home. The government is falling behind on its vaccination plans and this is causing a bigger dilemma as we approach the winter season and is putting more strain on our health care system and carers. We are currently in an adjusted level 3 lockdown and there is the possibility of it being increased due to the alarming rate of increasing infections. Due to this most of all planned conferences and exhibitions have been put on hold for 2021. It was recently announced that the CEO of ECSA has been placed on precautionary suspension and that Mr Gerald Boitumelo Mokgoro has been appointed as acting CEO. We are receiving daily reports and complaints of Individual Members, Company Members and NonMembers failing to adhere to the relevant DMR Regulations, Local and International Testing standards as well as issuing inaccurate and fraudulent certificates for work completed. We would like to remind all to ensure they carry out their work ethically, methodically, accurately and ensure they comply with all requirements required by an LMI or Lifting Tackle Inspector and not to knowingly misinform end users of the statutory requirements required by regulations. Should you know of any complaint please ensure to take it up with the responsible individual/company first and allow them to present their case and corrective actions if required. Should the responsible individual/company fail to respond or implement corrective action please ensure to report it via the relevant channels to their registered association, ECSA if an LMI is involved and the DEL if it is an LME. Together we need to take a stand and ensure the integrity of our industry remains and end-users are always kept safe. Complaint and ethics procedures are available on ECSA, DEL and LEEASA’s website for your use where required. A reminder to all SABS TC 1020 members that there is a virtual meeting taking place on the 08th of July 2021 (Thursday) - Time: 09:30

On Friday 21 May 2021 LEEASA hosted its first paid members golf day at ERPM Golf Club.

It was an exciting event enjoyed by all and I would like to thank everyone involved including our hole-sponsors. Lifting Africa, RFDIGI, Mware, Johnsons Crane Hire, Eazi Access and Yale Lifting Solutions for helping make the event a great success. All the players received a prize that attended the day, and a feast was enjoyed by all. Please ensure to join us for future events, it is great to get to know our members in a “non-competitive” environment…. Remember to send back your completed and up to date application forms to update our records. This information is needed to enable us to issue the LEEASA ID Cards as advertised with the relevant LMI and Scope information as well as ensure record advertised for companies on our New and Improved Website up to date and accurate. For those who have not submitted yet, please submit as soon as possible so we can get your ID cards delivered. The application form is easily downloaded on our new website at www.leeasa.co.za. OHSA & Lifting Registers – LEEASA has a stock of full versions of the OHSA and Lifting registers for sale at economical prices which can be couriered straight to your door. If you would like to purchase a copy, please feel free to email admin@ leeasa.co.za and we will make the necessary arrangements. We are also looking for industry experts to head up various subcommittees within LEEASA and if you would like to volunteer some time to a great cause that will bring long term benefit to our industry, please feel free to contact me directly on 082 856 0966 for a brief chat on what you could expertise or involvement you could offer. Feel free to reach out to the council members if the need requires. Chairman: Ashley Davis | ashley@leeasa.co.za

Vice Chair (Treasurer of Finance Committee):

Surita Marx | surita@leeasa.co.za

Second Vice Chair:

Ken Greenwood | ken@leeasa.co.za

Ordinary Members:

Andries Agenbag | andries@leeasa. co.za Francois Blignaut | francois@ leeasa.co.za Ian Gerrard | ian@leeasa.co.za Kyle Graham | kyle@leeasa.co.za

Yours in SAFE LIFTING, Ashley Davis and the rest of the LEEASA team

Hosted by LEEASA

Lifting Africa - Arno du Toit, Tinus Gouws, Barnard van Rensburg & Henk du Plessis

FB Cranes - Bossie Prinsloo & Jacques Jonker

Johnson Crane Hire - Arnold Spaumer, Edward Jones, Len Dicks, Russel Kramp & Werner Bam

Chimaera Inspection Services - Mark Digby, Phillip Patridge, Keith Cain & Hans Beukes

Sasol - Nic Smit & Brendan Brown WW Load Testing - Mark Minott, Sihle Hadebe, Jason Mulder & Stanley Dludla Johnson Crane Hire - Cedric Froneman, Gordon Muller & Russel Kramp

Burncrete - Mthandeni Kunene & Muzi Kunene

Elephant Lifting - Andrew Meeser, Kevin Reckas, Stanley Thorpe & James Macpherson Edward Searle - Branden Hayden & Ryno Kruger

Yale Lifting Equipment - Gerhardt van Heever, Morne Germishuis, Tyrone De Roer & Pieter Nortje

Eazi Access - Gerrit Hutten, Shaun Chanhguion, Steven Hasselbach & Alichea Spamers

Thank you to all our sponsors: