An employee must give informed consent before a doctor or other health care worker may examine, investigate or manage him or her. Ideally, counselling should follow informed consent. Absolute confidentiality regarding employees with HIV positive test results and those with AIDS must be strictly maintained. One of the ways to ensure existing infections are managed is to provide managed health care, utilising the services of specialist providers. A healthy lifestyle and diet will improve the health of a person with a compromised immune system. A company should commit itself to creating a working environment where employees feel they are able to disclose their status without fear of reprisal, and have the understanding that the company is committed …show more content…
The Code of Good Practice: Key aspects of HIV/AIDS and employment were published on
01 December 2000. It contains useful guidelines and legal requirements for employers, trade unions, and employees who grapple with the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The role players in occupational health and safety
The promotion and maintenance of health and safety is important for the well-being of the individual, for the success of the organisation, and for the general success of the country. Individual employees and their representatives such as trade unions form one stakeholder group. The OHSA imposes the general duty on every employee at work to take reasonable care of the health and safety of him or herself and of other employees who stand to be affected by his or her behaviour.
Employers, and managers as their representatives in the workplace, form another group with a vested interest in employee health and safety. The general duty imposed on employers by the Occupational
Health and Safety Act is to provide and maintain, as far as is reasonably practicable, a working …show more content…
Another important role player is the National
Occupational Safety Association (NOSA), a not-for-gain incorporated association that is partially funded by the State Accident Fund. The overall purpose of NOSA is to provide occupational health, safety, and environment services.
The aims of NOSA are as follows:
• To promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases and to endeavour to eliminate their causes and results in industry and commerce.
• To act as a national body encouraging and promoting health and safety, and to carry out occupational health and safety publicity.
• To deal with all matters and questions pertaining to occupational health and safety.
• To act as a general advisory body on all occupational health and safety matters.
The Chief Executive Officer of an organisation is made responsible for ensuring, as far as is reasonably practicable, that there is compliance with the employer’s duties imposed by the Act. Even if the CEO has delegated the responsibility, as he or she is well entitled to do, he or she is not absolved from the ultimate responsibility of ensuring compliance with the duties of employers in terms of the