It’s the week before an audit. The lodge manager pulls the OHS file and finds a HIRA template built for a factory floor: forklifts, conveyor belts, chemical storage. Nothing about guided walks. Nothing about a boma fire, a bush breakfast near a waterhole, or a Land Cruiser passing elephant on the way back to camp. The department heads aren’t OHS professionals, they run activities, kitchens, and housekeeping, and none of them have time to build a risk register from a blank page.
This is the gap the Bush Ready HIRA Toolkit was built to close.
Instead of adapting an industrial template to a wilderness operation, the toolkit starts from the operation itself. Guided drives, walks, bush dining, animal encounters, maintenance, and housekeeping are all pre-written, with the hazards and controls a lodge actually deals with rather than ones borrowed from a plant.
Back at the lodge, the department heads don’t start from scratch. They open the pre-filled hazard sheet for their own department, review it against how their team actually works, adjust where needed, and sign it off. No OHS background required.
It comes as fully editable Excel files. No subscriptions, no software to install, no internet connection needed once it’s downloaded. And because it is pre-configured with South African OHS Act and COIDA references while built on ISO 45001 principles, a lodge in Botswana, Namibia, or Kenya can edit the legal references in minutes and use the same system.
With around 90% of standard lodge hazards and controls already written, most lodges get from opening the file to fully audit-ready in 3 to 7 days. Not months of drafting. Not a factory template stretched to fit a game reserve.
R13,295.00 incl. VAT (down from R16,750.00)