Module 4: Lecture: Workers Compensation Legislation - Exercises.
 

EXERCISES:

Exercise #1:

You are employed as the occupational medical practitioner for a large chemical factory in the industrial sector of Cape Town. One of the new employees, 48 years old, come to see you with a chronic cough. After clinical evaluation and certain investigations you make a definitive diagnosis of pulmonary TB. Is compensation one of the avenues you will explore?

(See the answer)

Exercise #2:

In going deeper into his occupational history you ascertain that he worked underground in a gold mine for 8 years and left his previous workplace 11 months ago. Besides organising appropriate treatment for the pulmonary TB, how will you proceed with further management?

(See the answer)

Exercise #3:

What advice will you give to the employee in the above case?

(See the answer)

Exercise #4:

What advice will you give to the employer in the above case?

(See the answer)

Exercise #5:

After 6 months of therapy for TB he is much improved and sputum negative but complains that he gets short of breath when he walks upstairs or doing heavy manual labour. A chest X-ray indicates post - tuberculous scarring. How will you deal with the problem?

(See the answer)

REFERENCES:

  1. Alli B O, Maher D, Boldini F, Pathania V, Gabriel P, Kisting S, Norval P. Guidelines for Workplace TB Control Activities. The contribution of workplace TB control activities to TB control in the community. WHO, ILO.WHO/CDS/TB/2003. http://www.who.int/gtb/publications/communityTBcare
  2. Government Gazette. Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act No.130 of 1993. Pretoria, South Africa: Government Printer, 1994; vol.340, no.15158.
  3. Government Gazette. Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act No.78 of 1973. Pretoria, South Africa: Government Printer, 1973; no.3970.
  4. Government Gazette. Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act No.208 of 1993. Pretoria, South Africa: Government Printer, 1994; vol.343, no.15449.
  5. Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act 60 of 2002. Pretoria, South Africa.

Creative Commons License
Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health (DOH) - Modules 3 – 5: Occupational Medicine & Toxicology by Prof Rodney Ehrlich & Prof Mohamed Jeebhay is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.healthedu.uct.ac.za/