Sound familiar?
Every year, South African businesses face fines, failed audits, and lost ISO certifications, not because they ignored the law, but because they did not know it had changed. A regulation updated in Gazette this month. Your compliance spreadsheet still shows last year’s version. myLegal closes that gap.
Fines you did not see coming
Non-compliance carries real cost: fines, penalties, site closures and reputational damage. Most occur not from deliberate avoidance but from not knowing a regulation changed.
Spreadsheet chaos
Legal registers managed in Excel with no version control, no update tracking, and no way for management to see the full picture across all sites.
Missed legal updates
A regulation changes at government source level. Your team finds out three months later during an audit. By then, the gap is already a liability.
Reading the full Act
When legislation is updated, your team has to read the entire piece of legislation again to understand what changed. Hours lost per update. Per site. Per law.
Audit panic
No centralised evidence trail means scrambling to find compliance proof every time an auditor arrives. The evidence exists, it is just in three different folders and two inboxes.
Remote and multi-site complexity
Each site runs on a different system. Management has no clear view of compliance status across the estate and cannot answer the basic question: are we compliant?
ISO certification risk
ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 22000 all require a live, auditable legal register. Without one, certification is at risk at every renewal.
Expensive legal research
Paying legal counsel or spending internal staff hours to track regulatory changes is a cost that a software platform should be absorbing automatically.
Permit and licence slippage
Compliance documents, permits, and licences scattered across shared drives with no expiry tracking. Renewals missed. Inspections failed.
One platform. Every regulatory obligation. Every site.
Gain real-time insight into your site-specific regulations and legal updates, assign tasks, tag teammates and store related legal documents, with one view of compliance across the whole estate.
And it cuts the cost of compliance: myLegal replaces costly manual legal research and auditing, so fewer resources are needed to know your compliance status and you have more time to take action.
Required reading for anyone maintaining ISO 14001, ISO 45001, or ISO 22000 certification.
Site-specific
Custom legal registers configured to each operation’s exact business activities, jurisdiction and location.
Always current
Automated tracking updates every regulation whenever changes are made at source, and notifies your team on the platform and by email.
Audit-ready
Update history, self-assessments and evidence in one auditable trail that satisfies any auditor on demand.
Multi-site
Individual Streams per site with a management dashboard across the estate, so leadership can answer “are we compliant?” in one view.
Five modules. Complete compliance coverage.
Requirements
Custom legal registers per location, jurisdiction, and business activity. Local teams are delivered only the regulations they need.
Updates
Legislation tracked at source. Your team is notified on the platform and by email the moment applicable law changes.
Drives
Store, tag, and retrieve compliance documents centrally.
Assess
Rolling self-assessments across all operations in one dashboard.
Tasks
Assign tasks, set deadlines, receive reminders.
Live in a month, including training.
At Unilever, 140 users across 8 sites were onboarded, trained and live in under one month, including configuration of every site’s Stream.
Individual myLegal Streams created per site and configured to its exact business activities, jurisdiction and location.
Users onboarded and trained on their dashboards, with live chat support available from day one.
Optional remote compliance audit by our professional services team, with the results loaded into myLegal Assess as your baseline.
Certification depends on a live legal register.
ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 22000 all require organisations to identify, track and evaluate their applicable legal obligations. myLegal handles this automatically and gives auditors the evidence trail they need, on demand.
Proven at Scatec and Unilever.
Scatec
Independent power producer · 5 countries · 20 sites“Now with myLegal, we can demonstrate our compliance as well as drill down to check the legal requirements for each location in seconds, rather than days and hours.”
“myLegal professional services have provided us with a much more efficient way to identify our compliance gaps and know how to cover them.”
Unilever
Consumer goods manufacturer · 8 SA sites · 140 users“The myLegal Platform has been very useful in my workday and the system’s ease of use has given us the legal information required when needed. The myLegal customer success team is very quick to respond to our queries and have always provided a clear understanding to the questions asked. They always find time to do ongoing training sessions to keep all users updated on new and existing innovations in their program updates. We have also seen that myLegal’s tools have provided us with ways to do self-assessments with the myLegal Assess module, enabling us to check our site’s compliance status. It is also possible to request external legal support to do a validation exercise on your compliance levels. myLegal’s legal team provides exemplary feedback and recommendations on how to close any gaps identified. The myLegal Tasks module is another useful tool, used to assign tasks to individuals and set up reminders. This has been used to update permits and legal requirements for our sites that are due for renewal or as an action reminder, helping teams to keep up to date with each site’s requirements.”
We do not just give you the software. We help you run it.
Every myLegal implementation includes onboarding, training, and configuration of your legal streams per site. Our professional services team also offers remote compliance audits, where we upload the results directly into myLegal Assess as your baseline. Our live chat support keeps your team moving when legislation gets complex. South African support, in business hours, from people who know the law.
Questions we get asked first
Ready to replace your compliance spreadsheets?
Talk to the mySolutions team. We will assess your current compliance process and tell you exactly where the risks are, before an auditor does.