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Vol. 20 No. 4 July/August 2014

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e-ISSN: 2226-6097
ISSN: 1024-6274
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Occupational Health Southern Africa is on the Department of Higher Education and Training’s list of Approved South African Journals; authors of peer-reviewed papers thus qualify for subsidies for their affiliated tertiary institutions. It is also listed in African Index Medicus; and is on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) website list of journals following the ICMJE recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing and publication of scholarly work in medical journals.
In this issue

From the editor


Upcoming events


Health & Safety Forum gets ­local ­business “on spec” for new regulations

Lisa Short

Gloves In A Bottle lotion


SASOM Scientific Guidelines

Report by Jenny Acutt

MMPA 17th Annual Congress


SASOHN news

Report by Penny Orton

SAIOH MoU with the Department of Labour

Report by PJ (Jakes) Jacobs

Marikana autopsies highlight ­occupational diseases amongst ­platinum mine workers

JI Phillips, G Nelson, N Vorajee, J Murray, N Ndlovu, JC Davies

Occupational injuries in a large ­paper mill in South Africa

T Dlamini, S Naidoo, AJ Swanepoel

Malaria prevention


Modelling the joint determinants of a positive malaria Rapid Diagnosis Test result, use of ­mosqu

DG Ayele, TT Zewotir, HG Mwambi

Arsenic - persistent hazard

Volker Schillack, Dr John Stanfliet, Dr Younus Essack

Workmen’s Compensation ­handing over 46 000 Iron & Steel ­Industry ­companies to Rand Mutual

Report by Wendy Randall