If you're an independent HSE consultant or run a small compliance consultancy, you already know the real difficulty isn't understanding the OHS Act — it's keeping five, ten, or twenty client companies' certificates, appointments, and PPE registers current at the same time, without any one of them quietly slipping through a gap between site visits. A spreadsheet per client and a personal calendar of reminders works for a while. It stops working the moment you take on your sixth client.
ZeroLapse has a Management Company mode built specifically for this. Once your own account is set up as a Management Company, you get a "My Clients" portal — a single place to add a brand-new client company, or link one that's already using ZeroLapse (with that client's own admin approving the link on their side first, so nothing gets attached to your account without their sign-off).
From there, you can switch into any linked client with full working access — the same as if you were logged in as their own HSE manager — do what needs doing, and switch back out. Every client stays a completely separate entity. There's no shared list, no combined view, and nothing you see or do in one client's account is ever visible from another's. That separation isn't just a technical detail — it's what lets you tell a client honestly that their compliance data is theirs alone, not pooled with your other work.
Each client has their own Dashboard, driven entirely by their own data, showing a single Total Compliance Score alongside the breakdown behind it:
There's also a compliance trend chart showing how that score has moved over time — genuinely useful when a client asks "are we actually improving?" in a review meeting, since you can show them rather than estimate it. Whatever you or the client's own staff see on that Dashboard is specific to that one company, every time.
You shouldn't have to log into every client's account each morning just to check nothing's expired. ZeroLapse checks automatically, every day, and emails whoever needs to know — as the linked management company, that now includes you, alongside the client's own HSE and senior managers:
The more clients you take on, the more this matters. Checking one company's compliance by hand is manageable. Checking twenty companies' compliance by hand, every week, without missing anything, isn't — that's exactly the gap a system that runs the same check automatically, for every client, at the same time each day is built to close.
ZeroLapse's Management Company mode is built for consultants and compliance service providers looking after more than one company — full working access to each client, with their data kept completely separate.
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This article is general information for South African employers and consultants and isn't legal advice. Consult the Department of Employment and Labour or a qualified HSE professional for guidance specific to your business.