Company Announcement - MICROmega Holdings’ subsidiary NOSA proudly hosted the 53rd annual NOSHCON conference at the Champagne Sports and Golf Resort in the Drakensberg last week. NOSA prides itself on maintaining its position as a trusted partner in occupational risk management, providing services to all sectors of the market, from small businesses to large organisations.

Last week NOSHCON brought together a collection of impressive speakers as well as industry experts and professionals from across the globe to take part in this significant event. Highlights from this year’s conference included well known guest speaker Andrew Sharman with his address “Fear, Values and Personal Leadership: How swimming with sharks IMPROVES your safety,” along with exceptional presentations by Dr Frank Huess Hedlund from Denmark Technical University, Ken Annandale from Intra-Safe and Rick Melvill from Unplugged Communications. Special awards went to Afisam SA (Pty) Ltd, winning their 32nd NOSCAR award, and Karbochem (Pty) Ltd, winning their 30th NOSCAR award. The entertainment was unsurpassed with Johnny Clegg opening the conference, followed by George Town and the Barnyard theatre. The conference concluded with the renowned NOSCAR Banquet recognising organisations who continually strive towards better safety and health in their workplace.

“NOSA is honoured to once again host this event that brings together those in our sectors. This year at NOSHCON, NOSA launched an exciting new expansion to our suite of products – The Supplier Vetting System, a software solution to manage supply chain risk. Other product presentations delivered at NOSHCON included Working@Heights, SAMTRAC E-Learning, Incident Management Systems and Occupational Hygiene Services. We believe that NOSA is continuously enhancing our value proposition whilst assisting in the development of our industry and are thankful to those who contribute to the industry and take part at NOSHCON,” said Justin Hobday, Managing Director of NOSA.

Other highlights of this year’s conference included breakaway sessions with industry specialists and a SAMTRAC give away competitions won by Ms Takalanie Dikobe-Ngobeni.

Greg Morris, Chief Executive Officer of MICROmega Holdings says: “NOSA has exceeded in driving the importance of their services to Directors and Board members of companies, generating interaction and understanding of occupational health and safety risk management at management level. We continue to support NOSA in their focus on absolute services quality and NOSHCON 2014 was a testament to that.”

The NOSCARS and International Banquet were previously held separately to NOSHCON but this year was included into the programme as an exciting finale to the week. The awards give recognition to organisations and individuals that continuously commit to providing healthy and safe work environments for employees. Recipients of these prestigious awards are recognised internationally as organisations and individuals that show measurable and remarkable dedication in maintaining the highest levels of excellence in their occupational risk management performance.