Question 1 Discussion:

Personnel costs:

• Consultant time to run the workshops.
• Staff time to participate in initial workshops to be trained to become trainers.
• Staff time of trainers and ordinary workers to participate further training workshops.

  Under staff time consider not only the actual time spent training, but also time lost in coming off production, moving to and from the shop floor. Also, workers may request additional time to prepare materials, etc.

• Any nurse time or medical officer time that would be required for the workshops (e.g. meetings).
• Any time from senior management for meetings, etc?

Travel costs:

The workshops take place at the workplace. Workshop transport is borne by the consultants from Wola Nani and built into their workshop fee. Hence, there should be no additional transport costs.

Materials:

• Workshop materials.
• Posters and pamphlets and information.
• Greater uptake and use of condoms.

Utilities:

• Electricity and telephone and other communications.

Capital commodities:

• Space to conduct training.
• Space for testing and counselling.

Spin-off costs:

• Workers may come forward for testing 4 costs of equipment, nurse time for tests and counselling, costs of time off work for testing and counselling.
• More testing may translate into greater probability of needlestick injury to staff, and certainly will require increased precautions.
• Workers may choose to go off plant for services 4 costs of time off work.
• Workers dissatisfaction and agitation if not properly handled?
• Workers request for Union to get involved may lead to time off work?
• Time put in for evaluation.
• Could there be an adverse effect? Workers who think they are safer paradoxically practice more dangerous behaviours. If Wola Nani's training is effective, should not be the case but one should always think about it.

Are there additional costs to the medical aid scheme as a result of the training? Probably not, since illnesses would have been paid out anyway but not identified as HIV related. Now, greater awareness may identify more illness as HIV related. However, the burden will shift to the worker because of the capping of benefits.

But greater awareness may reduce medical costs by more efficient medical management.

Are there additional costs to the life insurance scheme? Again, probably not for the same reasons as above.

Costs borne outside the Workplace:

• Wola Nani are probably subsidising their real costs by charging only R500 per workshop in the sense that they are an NGO and may be getting funded to do this sort of work. However, NGOs these days are probably more likely to aim for full cost recovery given the financial constraints under which they work.
• Any costs to the families of workers as a result of the workshops? Probably none.

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