NOSA runs a network of 15 colleges across South Africa, and the single most useful thing to know before contacting one is that none of them has its own telephone number. Every NOSA College publishes the same national number and the same mailbox. Only the street address changes.
Official contact channels
- Telephone, all colleges: +27 87 330 3790
- Toll-free: 0800 007 721
- Email, all colleges: [email protected]
The safetycloud.co.za domain is correct and not a mistake. NOSA is part of SafetyCloud, so its published contact channels sit on the SafetyCloud domain rather than a nosa address. A quoted NOSA number that differs from 087 330 3790 is not from the official college directory.
Admissions and student support
NOSA colleges deliver occupational health and safety training rather than general further education. The course families published across the network are:
- SAMTRAC, the flagship safety management programme
- NOSA specialised training and NEBOSH qualifications
- Legislation training and legal compliance
- Safety in mining, and dangerous goods training
- Learnerships
- ISO certification courses
- Emergency safety, working at height, and driven machinery regulatory training
- Driver training, food safety, warehousing and logistics, and retail safety essentials
Courses run in three formats, classroom, e-learning and webinar, and SafetyCloud also offers learning delivered over WhatsApp. Because one number serves every campus, say which college and which format you want when you call, or the enquiry has to be routed twice.
Campus and address information
The 15 colleges, as published on the official college finder:
- Gauteng: Centurion (Block E, Lakefield Office Park, 84 Lenchen Avenue, Die Hoewes), Boksburg (corner N Rand Road and Bentel Avenue) and Vanderbijlpark (Top Hill Office Park, 434 Hendrik van Eck Boulevard)
- Mpumalanga: Emalahleni (Shop 5, Stand 23, Langa Crescent, Corridor Hill), Secunda (Suite C5, 2nd Floor, Grand Palace Building, Heunis Street) and Mbombela (Suite G1B, The Branders Building, 16 Branders Street)
- North West: Rustenburg (54 Von Wielligh Street)
- Limpopo: Polokwane (76e Schoeman Street, Absa Building, Polokwane Central)
- KwaZulu-Natal: Westville (Block A, Surrey Park, 6 Barham Road) and Richards Bay (Office 1, 3rd Floor, Lakeview Terrace, Pennylane Street)
- Free State: Bloemfontein (Ground Floor Office A, Nobel Street Office Park, Nobel Street, Brandwag)
- Northern Cape: Kathu (Business Zone, 4095 Kameeldoring Street)
- Eastern Cape: East London (Regus Business Centre, Office G25, Ground Floor, 14 Stewart Drive, Berea) and Gqeberha (17 Pickering Street, Newton Park)
- Western Cape: Tyger Valley (313 Durban Road, Bellville, Office 106, Suntyger Centre)
Two naming points that cause wasted searches. There is no NOSA College in Durban itself; Westville is the Durban metro campus. And the Nelspruit college is listed under the city name Mbombela.
Escalation routes
- Start on 087 330 3790 or [email protected], naming the college.
- SafetyCloud head office is Block E, Lakefield Office Park, 84 Lenchen Avenue, Die Hoewes, Centurion, 0163. It shares the same number, so head office is not a way to bypass the main line.
- NOSA has operated since 1951 and its training sits under occupational health and safety legislation, so a dispute about a qualification is usually a matter for the accrediting body behind that specific course rather than for the college.
- Beware a number circulating as 075100 2525. It is not a NOSA number. It is an artefact of the results-per-page selector on the college finder page.
Sources
- safetycloud.co.za/nosa-colleges/ (the full college directory with the address of each campus, and the shared telephone number and mailbox published against every one)
- safetycloud.co.za/contact/ (head office address, telephone number and general mailbox)
- safetycloud.co.za (toll-free number and the published course families and delivery formats)