Risk management is an important part of planning for businesses.

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VISION

To harness organisational effectiveness through integrated IR/HR, Forensic, and Risk Management Solutions.

VALUES

Consistency through quality, passionate client driven, value adding innovative and ethical.

Let us be your partner. Outsource the day to day people issues to us and stay focused on your core business activities. As part of the tailor made outsource arrangement we provide the following services:

IR / HR SERVICES

  • Analysis of the client’s current compliance with industrial relations, best practice and procedure.
  • Implementation of employee relations, best practice and procedures.
  • Ongoing review of employee relations practice and procedures within your workplace to ensure continued compliance.
  • Drafting of employment contracts, employment policies & procedures (such as disciplinary codes and leave polices), operational regulations and rules.
  • Improving employee performance through Performance Management and Counselling.
  • Dealing with absenteeism due to illness through Incapacity Investigations.
  • Dealing with misconduct in the workplace through proper discipline management inclusive of the chairing of disciplinary inquiries.
  • Assisting in the restructuring of businesses, retrenchments and changes to the terms and conditions of employment for employees.
  • Dispute and Conflict Management within the workplace.
  • Collective Bargaining and drafting of collective agreements.
  • Trade Union negotiations including recognition agreements and wage negotiations.
  • Assisting with the registration of companies at Bargaining Councils and exemption applications.
  • Ensuring compliance with Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Bargaining Council Main Agreements and Sectoral Determinations.
  • Assisting with UIF and Workmen’s Compensation registration.
  • Strike Management and Support.
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FORENSIC AUDITS & INVESTIGATIONS

Fraud and corruption are typical in South Africa given the many companies who have fallen prey to this potentially crippling phenomenon.

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  • Fraud investigations
  • Corruption investigations
  • Theft investigations
  • Money laundering
  • Forensic interviews and interrogations
  • Expert witness testimony
  • Surveillance and counter surveillance (detection and prevention, and electronic sweeps and searches)
  • Advising on the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 33 of 2004 (PCCA), Prevention of
  • Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (POCA), Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001 (FICA), Protected
  • Disclosures Act 26 of 2000 (PDA) and the role of the Specialized Commercial Crime Unit (SCCU), National
  • Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI), Special Investigating
  • Unit (SIU) and Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU)
  • Forensic audits
  • Compliance reviews
  • Forensic accounting
  • Corporate due diligence
  • Conflict of interest verification of suppliers and employees
  • Evidence preservation, restoration and analysis mail construction and relationship analysis and mapping
  • Truth verification (polygraph, handwriting analysis and questioned document examinations)
  • Verification of credentials such as employment, academic and professional qualifications, employer references, criminal records, drivers licenses and credit screening
  • Lifestyle audits
  • Assessment of corporate governance policies and procedures
  • Assessment of fraud prevention from both an ethical and operational perspective
  • Advising on fraud prevention plans, anti-fraud policies and procedures, and fraud hotlines
  • Providing fraud awareness training and continuous fraud control reviews
  • Performing fraud risk assessments designed to identify and evaluate fraud risk factors and the potential fraud schemes that could be perpetrated
  • Designing and implementing anti-fraud control activities and ensuring the achievement of the entity’s fraud prevention objectives
  • Monitoring the quality and effectiveness of anti-fraud programmes and controls
  • Assisting with the implementation of an integrated strategy to:
  • Understand organisation and industry specific risks
  • Identify the internal and external environmental factors that increase risks
  • Consider the human and behavioural factors that can lead to fraudulent acts
  • Adhere to the key principles of good corporate governance
  • Gain knowledge and understanding of the concept of red flags and how to identify them
  • Develop fraud risk management and fraud prevention strategies

RISK MANAGEMENT

Risk management is a process ofr identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks of different kinds. Once the risks are identified, the risk manager will create a plan to minimize or eliminate the impact of negative events. A variety of strategies is available, depending on the type of risk and the type of business. There are a number of risk management standards, including those developed by the Project Management Institute, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the National Institute of Science and Technology, and actuarial societies.

There are many different types of risk that risk management plans can mitigate. Common risks include things like accidents in the workplace or fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. It can also include legal risks like fraud, theft, and sexual harassment lawsuits. Risks can also relate to business practices, uncertainty in financial markets, failures in projects, credit risks, or the security and storage of data and records.

The idea behind using risk management practices is to protect businesses from being vulnerable. Many business risk management plans may focus on keeping the company viable and reducing financial risks. However, risk management is also designed to protect the employees, customers, and general public from negative events
like fires or acts of terrorism that may affect them. Risk management practices are also about preserving the physical facilities, data, records, and physical assets a company owns or uses.

While a variety of different strategies can mitigate or eliminate risk, the process for identifying and managing the risk is fairly standard and consists of five basic steps. First, threats or risks are identified. Second, the vulnerability of key assets like information to the identified threats is assessed. Next, the risk manager must determine the expected consequences of specific threats to assets. The last two steps in the process are to figure out ways to reduce risks and then prioritize the risk management procedures based on their importance.

There are as many different types of strategies for managing risk as there are types of risks. These break down into four main categories. Risk can be managed by accepting the consequences of a risk and budgeting for it. Another strategy is to transfer the risk to another party by insuring against a particular, like fire or a slip-and-fall accident. Closing down a particular high-risk area of a business can avoid risk. Finally, the manager can reduce the risk’s negative effects, for instance, by installing sprinklers for fires or instituting a back-up plan for data. Having a risk management plan is an important part of maintaining a successful and responsible company. Every company should have one. It will help to protect people as well as physical and financial assets.

The Importance of Risk Management to Business Success.
Risk management is an important part of planning for businesses. The process of risk management is designed to reduce or eliminate the risk of certain kinds of events happening or having an impact on the business.

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POPIA ACT : ARE YOU READY & COMPLIANT

Protection Of Personal Information ACT

POPIA ACT

As you are aware the POI Act came into effect on the 1st of July 2021. As a result thereof, Affinity IR Solutions have once again made it our business to make your business compliant. Although implementation dates are imminent, the key here is compliance within a reasonable period.

Below are the requirements. Businesses that do not comply with the Act will be paying fines of up to R10 million and can be blacklisted. In terms of the journey with your business on the road to POPIA compliance, our package includes the following.

  1. Training for managers and others tasked with the POPIA compliance within the organisation. This includes course materials and a certificate of attendance.
  2. Through policies and content clauses/ paragraphs / contracts set out below
  3. General staff POPIA policy and legislation awareness
  4. Assistance with the registration of the company’s information officer with the information Regulator
  5. Also included is an operator agreement and consent letter for existing clients, service providers, agree to the continued processing of their personal information beyond 30 June 2021

TRAINING BUNDLE INCLUDES:

  • Course material
  • Certificate of attendance
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THE POLICIES BUNDLE INCLUDES

  • Privacy notice template to be published on your website (where applicable).
  • Personal information protection policy.
  • Personal information retention policy.
  • Data breach policy
  • Data security policy
  • Data subject access request policy and procedures.
  • Data breach register form
  • Data breach report form
  • Data subject access request forms
  • Processing agreement with third parties as operators’ contract
  • Data subject participation – draft consent paragraphs/clauses to be incorporated into service and employment contracts, job applications, credit, and other applications forms, WhatsApp and Facebook groups/pages (including other forms of social media platforms), and independent Contractor’s agreements
  • Guidelines on the appointment of deputy information offices including such appointment letters.

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082 959 0925
011 894 4532

EMAIL

gert@affinityir.co.za

ADDRESS

PO Box 8437, Bonaero Park, Kempton Park 1622