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,...
by iohsol_admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Hygiene
Most people tend to regard occupational or industrial hygiene as a product of the 20th century. In practice, the concept is far older. There is evidence of attempts to safeguard the health of workers dating back to the bronze age. However, the vast majority of...
by iohsol_admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
For most of the country’s history, there has been no attempt by successive governments to introduce legislation concerning Health and Safety Management in South Africa’s workforce. In all fairness, much the same can be said of every industrialised nation...
by iohsol_admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Blog, Occupational Health and Safety
While, at one time, few employers showed much concern for the welfare of their workers and even fewer were likely to accept responsibility for injuries or disease caused by their working conditions, that has since changed. Most countries, including South Africa, have...
by iohsol_admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Blog, Hazardous Biological Agents
For the greater part of human history, workers across the globe have had little option but to operate in conditions that posed a severe threat to their health and safety or face unemployment. In time, some selected industries became subject to a degree of government...
by iohsol_admin | Dec 17, 2020 | Occupational Health and Safety, Occupational Hygiene
South Africa is a mixed bag when it comes to occupational health and safety management. In some arenas and by many metrics we score well, yet with construction and mining being just two of the extensive and potentially dangerous pursuits considered essential to our...
by iohsol_admin | Dec 17, 2020 | Occupational Hygiene
Although most workplaces in any industry in South Africa adhere to basic hygiene principles, some occupations have more onerous hygiene requirements than others. That said, in any workplace, even basic protocols around ablutions and other daily behaviour need policy...
