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Vol. 22 No. 2 March/April 2016

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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


Letter to the Editor

D Brouwer and D Rees

Identifying alcohol or drug abuse in the workplace is beneficial to ­both employers and employees

Rhys Evans

Q(h)ubeka Trust - the first big silicosis settlement


Selected features of nurses’  occupational health and ­safety practice in three Free State ­pr

AP Janse van Rensburg, MC Engelbrecht, A Yassi, LE Nophale, EA Bryce, JM Spiegel

Feedback on the Mine Health and Safety Council Inaugural Occupational Health Dialogue 9-11 March 201


Factors influencing ­compliance with universal precautions in ­operating ­theatres in northern ­

ZE Massinga, E Lekalakala-Mokgele, K Minnie

Identifying factors influencing ­construction workers’ food choices in Gauteng, South Africa: A p

C Okoro, I Musonda, J Agumba

Opioid abuse


SAIOH Annual Conference 2015


Notes from the SAIOH President

Report by Jaco Pieterse

SAIOH news

Report by: Claudina Nogueira

SASOM news

Report by Jenny Acutt

Brenda Wortmann - an obituary

Penny Orton, Karen Michell

Address by Mrs Joyce Mogale, NHLS CEO - at launch of the NIOH ­Gender, Health and the World of


The NIOH launches a Gender, Health and the World of Work ­Programme! Highlights of the day

Report by Samantha Jack

Africa’s leading ­occupational health and safety exhibition ­provides all-round risk assessment