by iohsol_admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Hygiene
It is unlikely that any other event could have highlighted the importance of personal protection equipment more effectively than the current lockdown conditions imposed to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. However, in some working environments, such as hospital isolation...
by iohsol_admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Noise
The incidence of hearing loss has grown steadily over the past few decades. Whereas previously, this condition mainly affected the more elderly members of society, it is now equally prevalent among the under-fifties, even affecting those in their teens and pre-teen...
by iohsol_admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
Many South Africans have been working from home following the lockdown restrictions. However, others have been less fortunate and have lost their jobs. The unemployed are probably hoping to find jobs when the pandemic eventually subsides, and the homeworkers are...
by iohsol_admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Hygiene
While paid employment may have eventually replaced slavery, in most cases, that transition had little effect on the day-to-day treatment of the average employee. With few exceptions, workers still had to labour for long hours in unsavoury and often dangerous...
by iohsol_admin | May 20, 2021 | Hazardous Chemical Substances
The list of hazardous chemical substances is a long one. It even includes the oxygen we breathe, which is potentially explosive and, when breathed in its pure form, can cause a fatal toxic reaction in the human central nervous system. In the home, substances like...
by iohsol_admin | May 20, 2021 | Occupational Hygiene
Statistics often suggest that most accidents occur in the home. While this may be true, the workplace often holds many more hazards, even though these may not always be as evident as a sharp knife or a boiling kettle. Identifying those hazards is one of several...
by iohsol_admin | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog
The Nature and Benefits of an Occupational Health Risk Assessment For most of the history of paid work, employers have done their best to pay their workers as little as possible and have shown little or no concern for the conditions in which they were required...
by iohsol_admin | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog
Dealing with Hazardous Biological Agents in the Workplace There can be few subjects more topical at the moment than the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the many ways in which the microscopic organism responsible has been affecting almost every aspect of human...
by iohsol_admin | Mar 31, 2021 | General, Occupational Health and Safety
Throughout the long history of paid employment, the vast majority of employers have been free to adopt a somewhat indifferent attitude to their workers’ welfare. Not only did they pay wages that were barely sufficient for subsistence living with little or no...
by iohsol_admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Hazardous Chemical Substances
We live in a highly industrialised society. Even the air above our cities and towns and much of the surrounding countryside has become laced with a cocktail of hazardous chemical substances. Materials, such as nitrogen oxides, lead, soot particles, sulphur dioxide,...
