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People. Your Company’s most Valuable asset.

Soma understands this implicitly and provides the best service in the market by delivering the highest calibre of medico-legal opinion by professional and independent assessors. We give you the most sound advice and solutions on absenteeism, disability, and incapacity.

People. Your Company’s most Valuable asset.

Soma understands this implicitly and provides the best service in the market by delivering the highest calibre of medico-legal opinion by professional and independent assessors. We give you the most sound advice and solutions on absenteeism, disability, and incapacity.

OUR SERVICES

We are market leaders in Absentee, Disability and Productivity Management.

We provide extensive health risk management services to a wide spectrum of clients internationally and across South Africa.

Our approach

Is unbiased and honest.

Our solutions are client-specific.

We focus on building healthy relationships within both small and large organisations. So they can focus on building their business.

Soma empowers businesses and the employees who make them successful. We do this by making sure there is optimum employer and employee behaviour in the workplace.

We offer the best service in the market through the delivery of high calibre medico-legal opinion by independent and reliable assessors. We deliver consistent, reliable advice on absenteeism, disability and incapacity.

Our national footprint extends to organisations, both private, and public. We use sophisticated software and cutting edge IT to create appropriate and equitable claim assessment outcomes and absentee and sick leave management.

About us

Soma Initiative (Pty) Ltd (“Soma”) provides extensive health risk management services to a wide spectrum of clients across South Africa and internationally, including Government, Local Authorities, Industrial Councils as well as the private sector.

We partner with organisations in the proactive management of employee ill health and incapacity, both temporary and permanent, to optimise employee well-being and productivity in the workplace.

OUR CLIENTS

Since the start, Soma has provided extensive health risk management services to a wide spectrum of clients internationally and across South Africa whilst enjoying and nurturing long-standing, successful, and professional working relationships.

What our clients say about us

Edward Thomas Roe

Verso

We confirm that Verso Financial Services (Pty) Ltd has dealt with Soma Initiative (Pty) Ltd for the past 17 years since 1 March 2004, during which time they have provided expert professional Incapacity Assessment and Case Management to Group Life Solutions.

Ms S K Maiphetlho

Public Works and Roads

The Department of Public Works and Roads: Dr Kenneth Kaunda District would like to take the opportunity to extend our gratitude for the outstanding performance of your company, since its appointment as Health Risk Manager from 2013 to date.

FJ van Zyl

Prosperity Management Africa

This serves to confirm that the Soma Initiative has served as the advisors to and disability assessors of the South African Local Authorities Municipal Pension Fund since 1 July 2004. The Soma Initiative provides a consulting service to Prosperity, the underwriters of the SALA Pension Fund Member Benefits at all Municipalities throughout South Africa. This service includes advising on medico/legal matters, disability assessments for both permanent and temporary disability, as well as advising and facilitating ongoing rehabilitation and treatment.

Prescilla Brown

North West Provice – Health

For the past six years up until today we have been working hand in hand with Soma. Soma’s service delivery is excellent and of very high standard. We can also confirm that they render exceptional service to us in terms of the turn-around times as well as the quality of the assessments and the co-operation received on a continuous
basis.

Mr MM Keetile

North West Provice – Education

This letter serves to confirm that SOMA Initiative was appointed on contract from 01 November 2013 to date as Health Risk Manager for the North West Provincial Department of which the Department of Education is one

Theo Botha

Department of Health

I have had the pleasure of working with SOMA since November 2013 to date. SOMA is our Health Risk Manager. I am greatly impressed by their exceptional response and quality of their assessments regarding any applications sent to them for temporary incapacity leave