ALCO-Safe becomes the first privately owned laboratory SANAS-Accredited for breathalyser calibration

In South Africa’s safety-critical industries, a single breathalyser reading can carry serious consequences - from removing a worker from a site to defending a dismissal at the CCMA. Yet workplace... 

Alcohol breathalysers prove a crucial safeguard

With South Africa possessing one of the highest levels of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, breath alcohol detectors and drug detection equipment supplier ALCO-Safe MD Rhys Evans says... 

Illicit alcohol: a brewing threat to health and workplace safety

By: Rhys Evans - Managing Director at ALCO-Safe (Virtual Showroom) South Africa has one of the highest levels of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, and our government has long used sin... 

Alcohol testing spotlighted as year-end looms

The prevalence of alcohol-related impairment in South Africa’s mining sector remains a persistent concern, prompting companies to adopt stricter testing regimes and invest in more sophisticated... 

Lag in testing a risk to safety gains

South Africa will need to keep pace with international standards of roadside drug testing, such as saliva-based testing, if it is to meaningfully address the growing threat of drugged driving and...