Description
PARTRAC Training Material: Physical Agents Regulations 2024 Awareness Training Pack
After years spent sitting across the table from employers who only discover the Physical Agents Regulations exist once an inspector is already standing in their workplace, we built PARTRAC Training Material to close that gap before it opens. PARTRAC is IntraSafe’s fully customisable Leader Material for conducting legal-compliance awareness sessions on the Physical Agents Regulations 2024 (PAR), covering the Knowledge & Applicability of the Physical Agents Regulations 2024 alongside the Legal Liability, Functions, Duties and Responsibilities of Employers and Employees in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act [Act 85 of 1993]. If you are an OHS Practitioner, training provider, OHS Representative, or safety officer who needs to run a credible, legally grounded PAR awareness workshop without building the content from a blank page, this pack is built for exactly that job.
What Is PARTRAC Training Material?
PARTRAC Training Material is a digital, ready-to-present training content pack developed by INTRA-SAFE (Pty) Ltd that equips a facilitator to deliver a Physical Agents Regulations 2024 awareness briefing, and to explain, in plain and legally accurate terms, what employers and employees are required to do under the OHS Act. It is not a qualification and does not certify learners as competent Physical Agents assessors. It is explicitly positioned, in the material itself, as an awareness workshop: PAR Awareness Workshops are not the same as PAR Training, and the pack is upfront that completing this workshop does not qualify a delegate, and that OHS Practitioners are not legal advisors unless separately qualified. That honesty is deliberate. It protects the facilitator, the employer, and the delegates from overstating what the session covers.
Why Employers Need PARTRAC Training Material Now
The Physical Agents Regulations 2024 replaced older, narrower Environmental Regulations, and most workplaces have not caught up. PARTRAC Training Material opens by walking delegates through that shift, from the old Environmental Regulations to the Physical Agents Regulations 2024, before setting out why early action matters. The material makes a point that changes how employers think about risk: more workers die from occupational diseases than from occupational injuries, yet illnesses and deaths are far less visible on a safety file than injuries and fatalities. A crushed hand generates an incident report. Years of unmeasured noise or vibration exposure generates nothing, until it becomes a claim. This section reframes occupational hygiene as a frontline safety discipline, not a paperwork afterthought, and explains why occupational hygiene matters to every employer with workers exposed to physical agents on site.
What’s Included When You Order PARTRAC Training Material
With your order of PARTRAC Training Material, you receive:
- Leader Guide — the core facilitator content, structured to deliver the full PAR awareness briefing session by session.
- Observer Guide — grounds delegates in the PAR Observer role, including its purpose and its limits.
- Facilitator Visuals — presentation-ready visual support for every part of the workshop.
- Course Support Material — supporting reference content to back up delivery in the room.
Ordering is straightforward. Price includes VAT. You can download the Course Material Content Sheet before you buy, so you know exactly what you’re getting. Delivery is digital, via Google Drive, so there is no waiting on courier or postage. The material invites risk-specific content customisation, meaning it is built to be adapted to your client’s actual physical agents and workplace risks, not delivered as a rigid one-size-fits-all deck. And once you own it, you have unlimited reproduction rights for your client’s Learner Workbooks. The material itself is not for distribution or resale outside that use, and copyright is reserved by INTRA-SAFE (Pty) Ltd.
Inside the PARTRAC Training Material Content: Part by Part
PARTRAC Training Material is structured across seven parts plus a full set of addendums, so a facilitator can run the workshop start to finish without gaps.
Part 1 — Introduction: Safety, Health & Hygiene. Sets the tone with why illnesses and deaths are less visible than injuries and fatalities, why early action matters, and what occupational hygiene actually is.
Part 2 — Occupational Hygiene / PAR Management. Covers the employer’s action plan, core definitions around hazards, exposure and risk, and the role players involved: occupational health and hygiene professionals, the Competent Person who conducts an Exposure Risk Assessment, and the PAR Observer, including the limits of the Observer’s role. It also flags that OHS Representatives and Committee members are required to attend PAR training, referencing the Explanatory Notes.
Part 3 — Workplace Agents & Stressors. Defines what a physical agent is, lists which physical agents are named in the PAR, and pushes further into other agents and stressors an Exposure Risk Assessment should look for, including agents that exist in a workplace but are not explicitly listed in the regulations. This part also covers how agents affect or enter the body, which body systems are affected, the consequences of exposure, the fact that some physical agents may cause cancer, and how compensation for workplace diseases is handled under COIDA.
Part 4 — Exposure Risk Assessment (Regulation 6, ERA). Explains why measuring physical agents matters, the instruments used to measure them, who is a Competent Person to conduct an ERA, the specialised instruments used to measure workplace conditions, what an ERA report should cover, and the recommendations that should follow an ERA report.
Part 5 — Medical Surveillance & Monitoring. Covers medical surveillance based on level of risk, connecting exposure findings to ongoing worker health monitoring.
Part 6 — Legal Framework: Duties & Responsibilities. This is where the OHS Act 85 of 1993 material sits alongside the PAR. It covers consultation in good faith as a legal requirement, the role of OHS Representatives and OHS Committee members, the duties of persons who may be exposed to a physical agent, other related Acts and Regulations, official warning symbolic signage, and INTRA’s own optional PAR warning symbolic signage.
Part 7 — Conclusion. Reinforces that everyone has a role, restates the caution that OHS Practitioners are not legal advisors, and gives a full Physical Agents Regulations overview alongside the PAR Explanatory Notes from Government Gazette 56 and the PAR Amendments from Government Gazette 54177, Notice No. 7149.
Addendums That Make PARTRAC Training Material Workshop-Ready
A workshop lives or dies on its reference tools, and PARTRAC Training Material includes a full addendum set: Tables 1 to 9, a PAR Observer Preliminary Exposure Risk Checklist that a delegate can actually use on the floor, a glossary of common Occupational Hygiene acronyms, units and scientific terms, and a general glossary. These are the pieces that turn a lecture into a workshop delegates can apply the next day.
Who Should Use PARTRAC Training Material
This pack is built for OHS Practitioners running legal-compliance awareness sessions, in-house safety officers and training coordinators briefing OHS Representatives and Committee members, and any employer needing a defensible, well-referenced way to demonstrate that consultation in good faith and PAR awareness training has actually taken place. It suits any workplace where physical agents, noise, vibration, thermal stress, radiation and the other stressors named in the Physical Agents Regulations 2024 are present, and where employers and employees both need clarity on what the OHS Act 85 of 1993 actually requires of them.
Training providers running accredited or in-house safety programmes also use PARTRAC Training Material as the legal-compliance module inside a broader course, since it is built to slot into an existing curriculum rather than stand apart from one. Mines, manufacturing plants, construction sites, chemical facilities and any employer with a designated high-risk work area under the PAR will find the content maps directly onto the exposures already on their risk register. Because the pack is customisable, a facilitator working across several clients in different sectors can reuse the same PARTRAC Training Material core while swapping in the specific physical agents, instruments and controls relevant to each site, without redrafting the legal sections each time.
Why Choose INTRA-SAFE’s PARTRAC Training Material
INTRA-SAFE (Pty) Ltd is FP&M SETA accredited, a Saiosh corporate member, and holds IOSH membership, with BEE Level 4 status. PARTRAC Training Material is written by practitioners who work this legislation daily, not repackaged generic content. It is honest about its own boundaries, legally referenced back to the Government Gazettes that created the Physical Agents Regulations 2024, fully customisable to your client’s actual risk profile, and delivered digitally so you can start building your workshop today. Download the Course Material Content Sheet, review exactly what’s inside, and order PARTRAC Training Material with confidence that your PAR awareness session is legally grounded from the first slide to the last.
