South African mining industry, together with the morbidity and mortality of such diseases. The database is used by the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate for research purposes. This research helps to identify and classify problem areas in occupational disease

Dec 26, 2012· The study estimated the amount of unpaid compensation owed to gold miners with lung disease at 20bn rand ($2.3bn). Richard Spoor is a human rights attorney who has worked regularly with miners.

Occupational asthma associated with bleached chlorine free cellulose dust in a ... Occ Med 2012; 62:64-66. Ehrlich RI. A century of miners' compensation in South Africa Am J Ind Med 2012; 55:560-9. ... Predictors of silicosis in an cross company study in the South African gold mining industry. 23rd EPICOH Congress on Epidemiology ...

Sep 22, 2016· In the long term, the gold mines are negotiating with trade unions and various government departments in a bid to rewrite the compensation laws so that in future, the ODMWA will fall away entirely, and silicosis and/or TB among gold mine workers will be dealt with under the Compensation for Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (COIDA).

The predictors of emphysema in South African gold miners. Am Rev Respir Dis . 1987; 135 1234-1241 32 Hnizdo E, Sluis-Cremer K, Abramowitz J. Emphysema type in relation to silica dust exposure in South African gold miners. Am Rev Respir Dis .

The year 2011 marked the centenary of the first South African legislation directed at compensating miners with occupational lung disease, the Miner's Phthisis Allowance Act, No. 34 of 1911 [Donsky, 1993]. This Act provided for temporary relief, with permanent compensation for silicosis being legislated in 1912.

Occupational Asthma Reference. Kleinschmidt I, Churchyard G, Variation in incidences of tuberculosis in subgroups of South African gold miners., Occup Environ Med, 1997;54:636-641, Keywords: epidemiology, incidence, tuberculosis, TB, gold miner, miner, mine, South Africa, Africa, silicosis, hiv Known Authors. If you would like to become a known ...

Jul 28, 2000· Derick Wolfaardt had been employed in a factory in Bellville South, Cape Town for 13 years when he developed chronic asthma in 1997. Medical reports from specialists at the occupational disease clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Drug Research Unit at the University of Stellenbosch argued that there was enough evidence to make a case for work …

Nov 17, 2011· Silicosis is an incurable disease that scars the lungs but takes decades to develop. South Africa's National Institute for Occupational Health reported in 2008 that the silicosis rate at South African gold mines in 2006 was more than 30%.. However, rates have fallen with improved ventilation and other techniques, such as wet drilling.

A History of Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1910-1946 (Rand Afrikaans University, PhD thesis, 1993). 8. See Francis Wilson, Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1972). 9. Rina King, 'Silicosis in South African gold mines: a study of risk of disease for black

Mar 15, 2016· Silicosis is a disease you get from inhaling silica dust, also known as quartz, the rock the gold dust is embedded in.more Drilling the rock generates the dust which miners then breathe into their ...

Cowie RL, Mabena SK. Silicosis, chronic airflow limitation, and chronic bronchitis in South African gold miners. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1991 Jan; 143 (1):80–84. Hnizdo E. Loss of lung function associated with exposure to silica dust and with smoking and its relation to disability and mortality in South African gold miners.

1995 – 2003: Silicosis in the South African gold mining industry begins to see the light. In 1932 there was substantial interest in problems of tuberculosis and silicosis amongst black miners but it was not until sixty five years later (in 1997) that the first independent follow-up study of African miners was published, followed by a

The NIOH has the opportunity to assess the long term survival and measure sickness in nearly 2000 gold miners with known dates of HIV infection, by using data and records already routinely collected on South African mine workers. A similar project is …

Occupational asthma is the most common occupational lung disease in industrialised countries, ... and discusses the sources and outcomes of PTSD claims reported by the South African mining sector to Rand Mutual Assurance Company for compensation benefits. Interestingly, most of the claims were from the gold mining industry, and the majority ...

Your local TEBA office can assist you to fill out a V12 form. Phone the call centre at 080 1000 240 or 0800 110 110 and they will help you to fill out a register form. Send a 'please call me' to 072 557 8077 and the call centre will call you back. If you have already registered at any of these or through the MBOD you do not need to register ...

Occupational asthma cancer☐ ... database to record the occurrence of occupational diseases in the South African mining industry, together with the morbidity and mortality of such diseases. ... and may be used for purposes of reporting of occupational disease in mines and research.

DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2011.25 Corpus ID: 1288783. Occupational lung disease in the South African mining industry: Research and policy implementation @article{Murray2011OccupationalLD, title={Occupational lung disease in the South African mining industry: Research and policy implementation}, author={J. Murray and Tony Davies …

1.1 History of asbestos mining and use in South Africa South Africa has mined, used and exported all three major types of asbestos: chrysotile, amosite and crocidolite. Asbestos mining and production in South Africa peaked in 1977 with 380 000 tons being produced: making South Africa the third largest supplier of asbestos in the world1. By the ...

South African gold mining ... Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, ... Platinum health risk study due to be published by year-end ... compensation of occupational asthma in south african gold mines ... and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act ... South Africa's Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act .

Mar 28, 2017· The gold mining industry is trying to move sick miners from the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act to the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA). The Department ...

Aug 22, 2012· Mining fatality rates showed a downward trend. The three dominant countries for mining were Canada, South Africa and Australia, but four of the top ten mining companies in the world were South African. South Africa's mine fatality rate was approximately 32.9 deaths per 100 000 miners, whereas Australia was 2 per 100 000 miners.

Justice for Southern African Gold Miners. Thousands of ex-gold mineworkers in South Africa are suffering from silicosis. They have been denied the medical screening, compensation, healthcare and support they need and deserve. From 2012 to 2019 we called on the companies that made their fortunes from apartheid gold to address this injustice.

goal of a comprehensive solution to issues relating to compensation for occupational lung disease in the gold mining industry in South Africa that is …

Witwatersrand in 1886, mining remains a major force in the South African economy. Despite policy and legislative reform, partly informed by extensive research, 16 years into a democratic South Africa, gold miners in particular face an epidemic of occupational lung diseases. This provides an occupational health context in which to examine the ...

The information has been relatively slow to gather. It started out with my very first studies in South African gold miners. 25 As the miners put it, "the x-ray does not tell the whole story." At that time, disability compensation was given only to miners with x-ray evidence of silicosis. The miners' experience was otherwise.

In June 2012, with support from Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Gruber Foundation at Yale, and the GHJP, faculty traveled to South Africa to develop a comprehensive research agenda regarding compensation for silicosis and tuberculosis acquired through gold mining; unanswered questions about these diseases' epidemiology and their interaction with …

Dr Barry Kistnasamy, Compensation Commissioner, Department of Health, South Africa discussed a possible occupational health system for Namibia. The core functions, models and challenges experienced in South Africa were also discussed. He suggested that a public health approach should be taken instead of the traditional occupational health service.

by the Chamber of Mines of South Africa, working under the control of a person appointed in terms of section 12 of the Act, 16.6(4) The employer must take reasonably practicable measures to ensure that a written report on the inspection contemplated in regulation 16.6(3)(b) is provided within 7 days to the manager appointed in terms of section ...

Many were entitled to compensation under South African law. Both radiograph readers detected time response relations between pneumoconiosis and …