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The Occupational Hygiene Career Session

What the SAIOH ladder actually requires, and what OHTA201 does and does not get you.

Evening session
Two hours, live, with Q&A
Evening — no leave needed
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<200 registered occupational hygienists serve South Africa's entire workforce
~R 0,000 average occupational hygienist salary in South Africa (PayScale SA, Mar 2026)

The credit

Whatever you pay for this session is credited in full against the R10,000 OHTA201 course fee.

What you leave with

You leave with two documents: the SAIOH Occupational Hygiene Assistant registration checklist, and the employer funding request template. Both are yours to keep and use whether or not you ever study with us.

Be honest with yourself

Who this is for

Come if you are

  • A safety officer or SHEQ practitioner who wants to specialise rather than start over
  • A mine ventilation officer or occupational health nurse moving toward hygiene
  • An environmental health, science or engineering graduate weighing this as a career
  • Already doing exposure work informally and want the credential to match

Do not come if you want

  • A guaranteed job at the end of a five day course. That is not how this field works and we will not pretend otherwise
  • A shortcut around SAIOH's qualification requirements. There is not one
  • A two hour sales pitch. We pitch once, at the end, for fifteen minutes, and you can leave before it

Seats

Three ways to attend

Live Seat

R450 per person
  • Full two hour live session
  • Open Q&A
  • Recording if you cannot make it live
  • SAIOH registration checklist
  • Employer funding request template

Credited in full against the R10,000 OHTA201 fee.

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Seat + Private Review

R1,200 per person
  • Everything in the live seat, plus:
  • A private 30 minute session with one of our SAIOH registered occupational hygienists, in the week after
  • Your qualifications and experience reviewed against the actual registration criteria
  • A written next-step plan specific to you, not generic advice
  • Your CV reviewed for occupational hygiene roles

Capped at eight because it is real one-to-one time. Credited in full against OHTA201.

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Team of Five

R1,800 total — R360 per person
  • Five live seats for your SHEQ or safety team
  • One invoice made out to the company
  • Quotation issued on request for procurement
  • Counts as qualifying skills development spend

Ask for a formal quotation and we will send it the same day.

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Who is running it

Presented by OH Gear Up

An OHTA Approved Training Provider, with SAIOH registered professionals.

OH Gear Up is one of a small number of approved Occupational Hygiene Training Association providers on the African continent. We deliver the full OHTA pathway, from the OHTA201 foundation through the intermediate modules toward the international ICertOHTA certificate, alongside occupational health and hygiene services to South African employers.

The session is hosted by our team of SAIOH registered occupational hygienists, on the call for the technical questions and the Q&A.

Before you ask

Questions

Book anyway. Everyone who registers gets the recording and both documents. The Q&A is the part you will miss, so come live if you can.

Yes, and this is exactly why the session exists. There is a route at Assistant level that does not require a degree, and there are routes that do — SAIOH requires a three year tertiary qualification at Technologist level and four years at Hygienist level. Two hours will tell you which one applies to you instead of guessing for another year.

Often, yes, and more easily than people expect. We invoice companies directly and issue a formal quotation for procurement. Section five of the session is specifically about making that request successfully.

Message us on WhatsApp and we will send payment details and confirm your seat. Electronic transfer or card, whichever suits you. Company invoices issued on request.

No, and we will not tell you otherwise. OHTA itself states that OHTA201 is a Certificate of Completion, not a formal qualification. It is the recognised starting point on the SAIOH ladder, not the end of it. This session exists to show you exactly where it fits.

Two hours could save you another year of guessing

Live, online, with Q&A.