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Vol. 21 No. 2 March/April 2015

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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

Occupational health litigation & the development of occupational ­hygiene: Introduction – Part 2

Dr DW Stanton

Manganism or manganese poisoning

Volker Schillack, Younus Essack and John C Stanfliet

A comparative study of the ­prevalence and risk factors of ­lower back pain among aircraft technic

LI Zungu and ES Nigatu

What to expect from an ­occupational hygiene survey

J van Rensburg

What is ergonomics?

Jessica Hutchings

Annual SAIOH Conference 2014 - Beyond dust and noise…

Claudina Nogueira

From the SAIOH President

Cas J Badenhorst

Occupational therapy - Part of the occupational health team

Prepared by Karen S Theunissen

Occupational Health Crossing ­Borders - a report on the 7th International Summer School

Prepared by Penny Orton

SASOM news

Report by Jenny Acutt

Upcoming events


The use of hearing protection ­devices in South Africa - exploring the current status in a gold and

L Ntlhakana, A Kanji and K Khoza-Shangase