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Johannesburg, South Africa. *Corresponding author. Abstract South African miners face an epidemic of occupational lung diseases. Despite a plethora of research on the mining industry, and the gold mining industry in particular, research impact (including disease surveillance) on policy implementation and occupational health systems performance ...

Occupational Asthma Reference. Kleinschmidt I, Churchyard G, Variation in incidences of tuberculosis in subgroups of South African gold miners., Occup Environ Med, 1997;54:636641, Keywords: epidemiology, incidence, tuberculosis, TB, gold miner, miner, mine, South Africa, Africa, silicosis, hiv Known Authors. If you would like to become a known ...

about by compensation payments and hence increased levies on mines. Trapido et al63 estimated the unpaid occupational lung disease compensation for gold miners to be 10 billion South African rands

Jul 20, 2020· Gold miners in South Africa have been at risk for silicosis, a condition affecting the lungs that develops from exposure to quartz dust, and workrelated tuberculosis, which spreads rapidly in the ...

Integration of Compensation Summit 200 delegates January 2016 First multistakeholder workshop on integration of compensation systems October 2015 Underground visit for media to see dust prevention in action September 2015 Inception of joint Steering Committee with MBOD and CCOD December 2014 Meetings with claimants'' attorneys get underway March ...

This article describes the current impetus to reform of the centuryold South African mining compensation system. It is intended as a case study of the implications of harmonization of two disparate compensation systems for occupational lung disease, specifically in relation to equity in financial benefits, equity in coverage, linkage of ...

Jun 10, 2010· The goldmining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, exminers, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the tuberculosis crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference, held in Durban from 1 to 4 June, 2010. "If TB/HIV is a snake in Southern Africa, we know that its head is in South Africa in the mines. We are exporting TB and HIV throughout the region ...

• In the main it is an upstream sector to the mining, manufacturing and agricultural industries, ... Common causes of occupational asthma in South Africa. National history of immunologic occupational asthma / rhinitis (Lemiere and Vandenplas, 2017) ... • Worker''s compensation system needs to place a high priority on prevention ...

Mar 29, 2011· Across the region, 280,000 exmineworkers are estimated to be eligible for compensation under South Africa''s Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (Odimwa), but according to one study as ...

Jul 06, 2011· Although provision for compensation for occupational lung diseases to current and former miners and their families in life and after death has been in place since 1911, the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act of 1973 catalysed the development of the database by the South African Medical Research PATHAUT provides a rich data ...

For the companies in the Working Group, this represents a huge step towards their previously stated goal of a comprehensive solution to issues relating to compensation for occupational lung disease in the gold mining industry in South Africa that is both fair to past, present and future gold mining employees, and also sustainable for the sector.

With the help of Action for Southern Africa (Actsa), thousands of exgold mine workers suffering from silicosis in South Africa finally achieved a settlement of at least £268 million in 2019, with African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold .

The Working Group is a collaboration between senior management of the six largest mining groups in the industry (African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American SA, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Harmony, and Sibanye Stillwater) focused on occupational lung disease prevention and compensation. In 2003 the tripartite Mine Health and Safety Council ...

South Africa South Africa Gold mining: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of goldbearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centred on presentday Johannesburg. The rapid growth of the goldmining industry intensified processes started by the diamond boom: immigration, urbanization, capital investment, and labour migrancy. By 1899 the gold industry attracted investment worth ...

Jun 08, 2020· The settlement was used to establish the Tshiamiso Trust, to fund compensation for eligible gold mine workers and their dependents in South Africa. [5] As a legacy of apartheid, most of the miners who undertook the most dangerous jobs were black. It took 8 years of legal struggle for the workers and their families to get compensation.

Mar 05, 2015· The South African gold mining industry has long been criticised for its poor treatment of workers and dangerous working conditions. Dust in the mines literally kills mineworkers: silicosis, a degenerative lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust in the mines, and TB, easily transmitted in poorly ventilated mine shafts, are endemic ...

May 04, 2018· "In South Africa alone, TB rates within the mining workforce are estimated at 2,5003,000 cases per 100,000 individuals. This incidence is 10 times the World Health Organisation (WHO) threshold for a health emergency, and is also nearly three times the incidence rate in the general population," according to a World Bank report .

Former gold miners from the Welkom area in the Free State have requested legal assistance in connection with possible claims for compensation for silicosis and pthysis against South African gold ...

Most mineworkers in South Africa are covered by ODMWA for occupational lung diseases, based on a statedetermined assessment of whether or not a mine is ''controlled''. Mining companies contribute certain amounts to an ODMWAbased compensation fund.

Aug 31, 2017· The fivemember FTSE/JSE Africa Gold Mining Index has gained percent this year, compared with a 12 percent advance for South Africa''s benchmark allshare gauge.

Mar 10, 2016· The goldmining industry caved and reached a settlement in a 12year case brought by claimants over hazardous work conditions that cause silicosis and silicotuberculosis. ... for South African ...

In South Africa, silicosis is currently at the centre of several major public health and legal responses to the serious epidemic of occupational lung disease in the South African gold mining industry uncovered in studies published from the late 1990s onwards [8–14]. In 2003, with a recommitment in 2013, mining employers, labour

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 .

South Africa''s wealthy and privileged owe a direct debt to those whose lives paid for the gold industry on which the South African economy was built. For 120 years, mining companies and the South African State have failed to protect miners from across southern Africa from harmful conditions resulting in lung disease. Although protective laws have been in place since 1903, mining companies ...
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