A certificate of fitness before the first shift.
A pre-employment medical confirms that a new starter is fit for the actual job and exposures, not a generic checklist. Care Net tests against the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 and the risks you declare.
Come to us, or we come to you
Send one worker to a fixed clinic, or book a mobile clinic and run the medicals on your site with no travel time lost.
Midrand, Elandsfontein, Brackenfell and Gqeberha
Walk-in and booked medicals at full clinics in Gauteng, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape.
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16 mobile clinics
Medicals on your site
A fully equipped mobile clinic comes to your site or camp. Large teams are tested in a planned window, including Saturdays.
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Fit the person to the job, not the other way round
Stopped at the gate
A missing pre-employment certificate keeps a new starter off site and your programme behind. We schedule around your start dates.
Wrong tests for the role
A generic medical that ignores noise, chemicals or height is not a defence. We test against the job description and the exposures you declare.
No baseline to compare later
Periodic and exit medicals only work if you recorded the starting point. The pre-employment file is that baseline, stored digitally for the legal retention period.
Book a pre-employment medical
Tell us the job titles and start dates. A sales executive replies the same working day.
What the OHS Act asks before day one
Section 8 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 places a duty on every employer to provide a working environment that is safe and without risk to health. A pre-employment medical is how you show that duty was considered before the person started.
The general duty
You must identify hazards, assess the risk and take steps that are reasonably practicable. For a new starter, that includes confirming medical fitness for the actual work.
Send the job description and the risk assessment with the booking. The practitioner tests that person against that job, not a blank form.
Construction and related work
If the work is construction work, regulation 7(8) requires a medical certificate of fitness issued by an occupational health practitioner in the form of Annexure 3, specific to the construction work to be performed.
Complete the employer section of the Annexure 3 before the medical. We complete the medical section and issue the certificate.
Chemical exposure from day one
Where the role will involve hazardous chemical agents (the current HCS framework), medical surveillance starts with a baseline before exposure begins, not after the first spill or shift in the store.
Tell us the agents on the safety data sheets. The panel is matched to those agents and confirmed by the practitioner.
Noise-exposed starters
Where the job sits in a noise zone, a baseline audiogram belongs in the pre-employment file. The Noise Exposure Regulations 2024 are the current noise framework. Hearing screening at Care Net follows SANS 10083.
A later periodic test is only useful if you have this first reading to compare. Do not skip the baseline to save a day.
How a Care Net pre-employment medical runs
You send the job titles, start dates and the exposures. We confirm the test set. The worker attends a fixed clinic, or a mobile clinic comes to your site. The record lands in My Clinic Online so the certificate verifies online.
If the role is at height, use the working at heights medical. If you already have a workforce on surveillance, start them on the medical surveillance programme after this baseline.
