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Vol. 26 No. 2 March/April 2020

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e-ISSN: 2226-6097
ISSN: 1024-6274
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Occupational Health Southern Africa is on the Department of Higher Education and Training’s list of Approved South African Journals; authors of peer-reviewed papers thus qualify for subsidies for their affiliated tertiary institutions. It is also listed in African Index Medicus; and is on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) website list of journals following the ICMJE recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing and publication of scholarly work in medical journals.
From the Guest Editor

Issues in Occupational Health


COVID-19 pandemic: workplace readiness to control and contain the spread of coronavirus

TS Singh, DO Matuka, M Muvhali, T Duba

South Africa’s industry preparedness to control COVID-19 transmission

D Brouwer, V Govender, M Hermanus

Twenty years of warning

Dr Thomas Fuller

Histories of the Societies


SASOM celebrates a rich legacy of promoting and protecting health in the workplace

Prof. DJ Kocks

SASOHN celebrates 40 years of excellence serving South African OH nursing practitioners

Ms Denise Minnie

SAIOH’s history of serving the noble profession of occupational hygiene

Deon Jansen van Vuuren

MMPA celebrates 100 years of medical service to mine workers

DJ Emby, VG Govender

Commemorating 25 years of publishing research and information for OH practitioners

Gill Nelson

The history of the International Occupational Hygiene Association

Dr Thomas Fuller

Pioneers in Occupational Health


Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein (26 September 1879, Odessa, Russia - 7 July 1972, Johannesburg)

Rochelle Keene

John Christopher Wagner (11 April 1923, Pretoria - 25 May 2000, Dorset)

Prof. Emeritus Cedric Bremner, Rochelle Keene

Archibald Sutherland Strachan (23 November 1891, Glasgow - 20 February 1949, Johannesburg)

Prof. Emeritus Cedric Bremner, Rochelle Keene

Obituaries


In memoriam - Dr Sean Cheevers: 1 Jul 1942 - 4 Feb 2020

Devin Cheevers, Shonagh Cheevers, Dr Kevin Rainier, Sr Jane Knight Taylor and Carol Meyer

In memoriam - Dr Johann Teunis Mets

Jeannette Christian

Sponsored Articles


BBE Laboratory supplies state-of-the-art analysis and sampling technologies to reduce airborne occupational hazards in African mines and manufacturing industries

Retha Rossouw

125 years of taking care of lives