Built in Cape Town. Trusted across South Africa.
Rapid Safety Files is a Cape Town–based safety file service founded by Henrick, owner-operator of Business Made Simple Holdings (Pty) Ltd. We exist because the South African contractor market needed a third option: faster than a consultant, more trustworthy than a Gumtree download, more defensible than a generic template. R2,000 flat. Site-ready in 60 minutes. With a rationale report citing the legislation behind every document in your file.
Why Rapid exists.
Henrick runs a small portfolio of South African SaaS and services businesses under Business Made Simple Holdings (Pty) Ltd. The original insight was selfish: the safety-file factory we'd built for consultancies could also serve contractors directly, with one change — taking the document selection, the review, and the delivery off their hands entirely.
What contractors kept telling us was the same thing in slightly different words: I've been quoted R12,000 by a consultant, and I've found a R500 file on Gumtree, and neither feels right. Is there a third option?
Rapid Safety Files is that third option. A defensible safety file at a fair, fixed price, on the timescale a real construction project needs — not the timescale a consultant wants to bill for.
Part of Business Made Simple Holdings (Pty) Ltd.
Rapid Safety Files is one of several occupational-health and safety, compliance, and contractor businesses operated by Business Made Simple Holdings (Pty) Ltd. The wider group runs SaaS tools for safety consultancies, proposal-generation software for SHEQ-mature firms, and adjacent workshop tools — across the broader compliance economy in South Africa.
Mentioning the ecosystem is purely about business depth — Rapid is not a one-person shop running off a Squarespace. You don't need to know what else the group does to buy a safety file from us. We've built and run real software in this space for years; Rapid is the customer-facing version of that experience.
What we believe.
Speed isn’t a luxury.
A site agent waiting at a gate is a real, ticking-clock problem. Building a service that delivers in 60 minutes is the simplest respect we can show that.
Every document needs a reason.
A safety file is the work product, but the Compliance Rationale Report is the answer to "why is this in here?". Inspectors ask. Owners ask. Site agents ask. Now you can point at the answer.
Boring is a feature.
No "platform". No "ecosystem". No "AI revolution". A file, in the format inspectors expect, at a price you can read on the tin.
By the numbers.
Launch metrics. Operational stats (files delivered, customer count) replace the placeholders once the data settles.- Founded2026Cape Town · Business Made Simple Holdings
- Delivery promise60 minFrom payment to inbox
- Single priceR2,000VAT inclusive · No tiers
- Provinces covered9 / 9All of South Africa
The team.
Rapid is operated by Henrick (founder, reviewer of every file until volumes demand a second pair of eyes) with operational support from the broader Business Made Simple Holdings (Pty) Ltd team. As volumes grow, additional reviewers will be brought on under the same “competent person” standard.
- Every file reviewed by OHS professionals with more than 30 years of South African construction safety experience.
- Operates under a registered South African legal entity (Business Made Simple Holdings (Pty) Ltd) — full FICA / POPIA compliance trail.