Championing local manufacturing in workplace safety solutions

Championing local manufacturing

in workplace safety solutions

BBF Safety Group, with its head office in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, is an integrated workplace safety solutions provider that helps customers create safe working environments. BBF was formed on the basis of championing local manufacturing, procurement and SMME development – an objective more relevant than ever to get the South African economy back on its feet.

In 2014, four of South Africa’s largest safety footwear manufacturers joined forces to create BBF Safety Group (Pty) Ltd. The merger created the largest safety footwear manufacturer in Africa.

Since then BBF has transitioned to being an integrated workplace safety solutions provider offering a full portfolio of head-to-toe Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and SHEQ services, including training.

BBF is a proudly South African business, employing more than 1 200 people at four ISO:9001 accredited manufacturing facilities across the country.

Solutions throughout the various PPE categories

BBF’s safety footwear portfolio includes well-known brands such as Lemaitre, Frams, Sisi and South Africa’s market-leading Bova range. As part of the portfolio, Wayne gumboots has long been established as one of Africa’s leading gumboot manufacturers, having serviced the South African market for 80 years and counting.

The company also manufactures workwear, Fall Arrest systems and specialised thermal protection wear, while the Nikki brand of hard hats and face masks is well-established in the head and respiratory protection categories. As an entity BBF is able to supply solutions throughout the various PPE categories, actively working to industrialise and localise ranges as far as possible. highly committed, professional and efficient local suppliers and distributors.

The company continues to strive to service the safety needs of industries both domestically and abroad, while playing its part to drive the South African economy; through both its own manufacturing and services, as well as the suppliers and business partners with whom it works. 

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Industrialisation, transformation & development

BBF Safety Group’s mission has been to ensure economic empowerment, transformation and development in South Africa, forging partnerships with local SMMEs, both upstream and downstream of the supply chain, to create a network of