Module 3: Toxicology - Section 7: Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act
TOX 7.1: Introduction

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

By the end of this module

  1. You should have an idea of what the COID Act covers in general.
  2. You will be familiar in detail with those features of the legislation that apply to occupational medicine practice, specifically those dealing with the management of accidents and occupational diseases.
  3. You will be able to apply and interpret the Act in a range of situations found in occupational medicine practice.
The depth of the material is at the detailed level.

This introductory page contains links to other pages in this section. These are included for your convenience, both for reference and for revision purposes. It is strongly recommended, however, that you first access the material in its logical sequence, indicated by the "Next Page" link above.

ACTIVITIES:

  1. A lecture will provide the overview. Revise these notes.
  2. Read the companion Introductory Notes.
  3. Read the section in Guild and the articles by Onwuchekwe et. al, and
  4. Read the IHRG manual.

EXERCISES:

We shall work through the Exercise in class, with extensive discussion.

REFERENCES:

Hard copies of the following will be provided:

  1. Industrial Health Research Group. Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act. (Manual).
  2. Guild et al. Handbook of Occupational Health Practice in the South African Mining Industry, Ch 14, pp. 406-413 and Appendix 14.6 (Yhis applies to the mines but is a useful generic summary, including the formula for calculating compensation in the appendix.)
  3. Mohammed A et al. Notification of occupational diseases by general practitioners. S Afr Med. J. (This takes as a starting point the "maximal" responsibilities of a general practitioner in notifying occupational disease. One part of this system, i.e. notifying the Department of Labour directly in terms of the OHS Act, is probably a dead letter. Reporting under COIDA is thus probably sufficient.)
  4. COID Act Schedule 3 compensatable diseases

 

OTHER USEFUL REFERENCES:

1. Open the Department of Labour website and access various guides and forms.

 2. Medical report forms and notification of occupational disease forms are particularly useful.
 

 



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Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health (DOH) - Modules 3: Occupational Medicine & Toxicology (Basic) by Profs Mohamed Jeebhay and Rodney Ehrlich, Health Sciences UCT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. Major contributors: Mohamed Jeebhay, Rodney Ehrlich, Jonny Myers, Leslie London, Sophie Kisting, Rajen Naidoo, Saloshni Naidoo. Source available from here. For any updates to the material, or more permissions beyond the scope of this license, please email healthoer@uct.ac.za or visit www.healthedu.uct.ac.za. Last updated Jan 2007.
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