Clamp down on dodgy appointments to reduce fraud and corruption in the workplace. Contributed by iFacts — Removing your people risk Following the Sunday Times exposé in October that South Africa’s High Commissioner to Singapore, Hazel Francis Ngubeni, has a colourful past as a drug smuggler, industry experts are commentating on what may be going wrong with our country’s vetting procedures for high profile positions. However, Jenny Reid, CEO of iFacts , believes that the problem may not lie with the screening and vetting procedures themselves, but with the fact that appointments are made dishonestly, based on cronyism and cover-ups. No one who has spent two years behind bars in the USA for smuggling cocaine would ever pass any sort of effective vetting or screening process. The problem lies more with the unnamed or anonymous political leader who is said to have nominated her for the position in the first place. When it comes to employee screening in South Africa, keeping the b...

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Join the 2016 iFacts Employee Risk Conference and meet the remarkable man behind the memoir, Dragons & Butterflies to hear more about a man who overcame drug addiction, prison life and his demons to become a talented artist, public speaker and anti-drug campaigner. In 1994, Shani Krebs was arrested in Thailand for heroin trafficking. Initially sentenced to death he served almost to decades behind bars in the world's deadliest prison before returning home in 2012. Click here to book your seat online! Date: Thursday 9 June 2016 Start time: 08:00 am End time: 14:00 pm Venue: The Focus Rooms, The Core, Leeuwkop Road & Kikuyu Road, Sunninghill, Johannesburg.

Security companies: SA's other army The threat of an industry in turmoil. Contributed by iFacts Removing your people risk South Africa's crime levels, both actual and perceived, have caused the nation's private security industry to balloon into one of the world's largest. Despite its much smaller population, “this country has more people working in the security sector than the UK and most countries in Europe”, says Jenny Reid, president of the South African Security Association (SASA). According to the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) over 1,78-million men and women are employed by some 8,500 private security companies in South Africa, turning over an estimated R50-billion a year. “And that doesn't include the many unregistered personnel employed by uncertified companies, or self-employed individuals who make a living formally or otherwise in the sector guarding cars and other property, so the real number might well be much higher,” says Ms...

The right and wrong of surveillance in the workplace, Contributed by iFacts Removing your people risk A kind of paranoia is stealthily finding its way into the workplaces of the world's developed nations, an echo of George Orwell's novel 1984 in a rebirth of Big Brother, this time in human and/or digital form. This kind of creepiness is increasingly worrying US workers who are under workplace surveillance. Answers investigators are trying to find centre on whether or not intelligence gathering in the workplace, overtly or covertly, is ethical and/or legal. Some of the more cynical maintain that if workers are innocent of underhanded dealings, they won't mind being spied upon and might even enjoy displaying their morality. More liberal indignation insists that privacy is a human and civic right and that no-one or ‘no thing’ should be permitted to invade it. That point of view, however, is not universally held and even exists in different layers depending on where i...